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Novel Writing Room

A room for the long haul of a novel. A warm writing partner logs every writing session, keeps the chapter board honest, and reads drafts like a friend who wants the book to exist — with a live board of words and chapters.

Get GezelRead about it in the docs

Try it

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Novel Writing Room running in your browser on sample data. Use the page, or talk with the writing partner beside it: the conversation is scripted for this preview, and the changes stay in the page.

What’s inside

The crew

  • Writing Partner Crew leadA warm writing companion for the long haul of a novel.

Plans it follows

  • Editorial & Tone ReviewRun an editorial review on a piece of content for clarity, correctness, and brand voice, then produce a line-edit report and a clean revised version.
  • Ebook CompileCompile a collection of notes, articles, or chapter drafts into a coherent, readable ebook — with a title page, table of contents, consistently formatted chapters, and front/back matter — output as a single navigable HTML book.

Actions the crew can take

  • Log sessionLog a writing session (words written) the moment it is reported.
  • Add chapterPut a chapter on the board (starts in outline).
  • Chapter stageMove a chapter between stages: 'outline', 'drafting', 'revised', 'done'.
  • Novel statusTotal words, this week against the goal, the chapter shape.
  • OutlineEvery chapter with its stage and summary.

Each action is a small script that changes the app’s files, checked by Gezel’s security settings before it runs.

Files it keeps

Plain files in the project folder you can open, back up, and read: sessions.json, chapters.json.

Start one

  1. Download Gezel for Mac, Windows or Linux. It’s free.
  2. Choose New project, then Writing, then Novel Writing Room.
  3. Answer a few questions: Working title Words per week
  4. Your writing partner takes it from there, on the model you choose.

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