The product · Story Editor
Draft is where the novel actually gets written.
A writing environment for long-form fiction. 60,000 to 200,000 words held together on a single, focused surface.
01 · Block model
Paragraphs that understand what they are.
Every paragraph in Draft is a block, and every block knows whether it's prose, a scene heading, dialogue, a figure, or a note in the margin. You never format anything. You just write, and the structure emerges. Move a scene by dragging its heading; the paragraphs beneath it come along.
Ch 4 · Scene 2
The Boathouse
The rain had stopped by the time Elena reached the boathouse, but the boards were dark and slick underfoot. She took the last few steps carefully, one hand pressed to the wall.
Inside, the smell was of old rope and older water. She stood in the doorway for a moment, letting her eyes find the shape of the thing before she named it.
It was smaller than she remembered. Everything from that year had been smaller when she came back to it — the house on Marley Street, the pond behind the school, her father's study.
Story Editor — the sidebar reflects the shape of the book
02 · Revisions
Every draft, kept.
The Story Editor holds every version of every paragraph you've ever written, indexed by scene, chapter, and time. Compare drafts side by side. Restore a sentence from three weeks ago. Nothing is lost, and nothing you don't want to see is in your way.
The rain had just stopped when Elena arrived at the boathouse, but the wood was dark and slick beneath her feet.
Inside, it smelled like old rope and damp water. She stood in the doorway and looked around.
The rain had stopped by the time Elena reached the boathouse, but the boards were dark and slick underfoot.
Inside, the smell was of old rope and older water. She stood in the doorway for a moment, letting her eyes find the shape of the thing before she named it.
Side-by-side compare · Draft 3, versions 14 and 17
03 · Story Review Engine
A first editor's letter, on demand.
The Story Review Engine reads your manuscript end to end and returns a structured review: continuity notes, character voice, pacing, unresolved threads. It's not a chatbot. It doesn't chat. It writes you a letter about your book.
Ch 2 · Attic Boxes → Ch 4 · The Boathouse
The scarf Elena finds in the attic is described as "her mother's blue silk." In Chapter 4 it's referred to only as "the scarf." Intentional, or worth a second mention here?
Elena · voice
Elena's interiority sharpens noticeably around Chapter 6. Earlier chapters keep her at arm's length. Consider whether that distance is serving the story — or hiding her.
Introduced Ch 1 · unresolved
The letter from Elena's aunt is opened in Chapter 1 and never read to us. Is this a deliberate withholding? If so, when does the reader learn what it said?
Story Review · mid-draft, third pass
04 · Planning surfaces
Character sheets. Timeline. Research.
Planning documents live next to your manuscript, not in another tab. Reference a character's backstory as you write them. Pin a photograph to a chapter. Keep the year 1907 as a note in the margin so you don't have to remember it again.
34, born September 1972
Archivist. Left the city in 1998; recently returned.
To understand why her mother stopped writing to her in 1994, and what was in the boxes left in the attic.
Water. Not fully; only the specific dark water of the boathouse.
Precise. Uses "one" rather than "you" when generalizing. Rare contractions in stressful moments.
Ch 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11
Character sheet · Elena Reyes
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