customer at the till this morning: 'have you got something that'll make me cry but nobody dies'
it's been rattling round my head for three hours. what's the saddest book you know where everyone survives?
What this place is
The forum is free, the writing studio is the reason it exists
ChapterMuse is a desktop app for writing novels. Not a folder of documents and not a browser tab: one room holding the plan, the cast, the places, the research, the draft, the revision history and the finished files, all of it on your own computer. Rename a character in chapter one and the profiles, the prose and the exports follow.
It runs on Windows and macOS, works with the network off, and is bought once rather than rented: £24, £36 or £48 for a lifetime licence. AI runs on credits you only buy if you use them.
Your book is a file on your own machine. Nothing to renew, no outage that can reach your draft, and it still opens if we disappear.
30 days, everything unlocked, no card.