Prose Density

ProseDensity

A writing studio for anything long. Your characters, your world, your outline, and your draft, kept together in one quiet place, for the novel you’ve been meaning to finish or the story that’s due on Friday.

See how it works

Most writing apps give you a blank page. Long projects need more than that: somewhere to keep track of who everyone is, what you’ve already decided, and what each chapter is supposed to do, right next to the page you’re writing. Prose Density is that somewhere.

What’s inside

A story bible that keeps you consistent

Characters with their wants, fears, and relationships. The rules of your world. The themes you’re circling. A craft guide for how the book should sound. Everything is marked as settled, in progress, or still open, so you always know what’s decided.

An outline you can follow like a thread

Give every chapter a purpose, a cast, and the beats it has to hit. Group chapters into arcs, drag them into a new order, and read one storyline straight through the whole book to see where it goes slack.

A manuscript editor that remembers the plan

Write chapter by chapter with the outline, cast, and your own style notes beside the page. Drop in a placeholder for a scene you’ll write later, with its beats and purpose, and pick it back up from a to-write list. Everything saves as you type.

Open questions that become answers

Keep a running list of what you haven’t decided yet. When you figure one out, write the answer and send it straight into the right place in your bible, so the decision is recorded where you’ll look for it later.

Who it’s for

Novelists

For the book with a dozen characters, three timelines, and a reveal in chapter eight you can’t afford to contradict in chapter three. Keep several books going and switch between them.

Students

For creative writing assignments, a first novel, or any long project that needs planning before drafting. Outline your chapters or sections, keep your notes and research questions next to the draft, and see your word count against the target as you go.

Anyone writing something long

Screenplays, serials, memoir, a world you’ve been building for years. If it’s too big to hold in your head, it belongs somewhere you can see all of it.

How a book comes together

  1. Start a book

    Pick a title, a target length, and how many chapters. You can change all of it later.

  2. Build the bible

    Add characters, places, and themes as you think of them. Mark what’s settled and what’s still open.

  3. Outline the chapters

    Give each one a purpose and the beats it needs. Reorder until the shape feels right.

  4. Write, and keep track

    Draft beside your notes, leave placeholders for the hard scenes, and watch the book fill in.

The ferry horn goes twice in fog, which in Gullhaven means we see you, we’re coming anyway. I heard it before I saw anything.
From Salt & Signal, the example book

See a finished example

Salt & Signal is a ten-chapter story written to show what the studio can do: a full story bible, an outline with its own threads, eight finished chapters, and two still in progress. Open anything and try any button. Nothing you change is saved.

Walk through the example

Your book stays yours

You sign in with Google and only you can open your books. Your work is saved to your account as you write, so it follows you to any computer. Nothing you write is shared, published, or used for anything else. This page and the example book use Google Analytics to count visits; it never loads inside your studio.

Start the long thing.

Or try the example first