Your book is already in you.Let’s get the whole draft on the page.
Tell IdeaM your story in a sentence. It asks the questions a novelist answers first, then builds your book the way an editor and author do — characters, world, structure, a chapter-by-chapter plan — and writes every chapter as prose. You get a complete first draft to read, rework and make your own.
Every novelist knows this moment.
You know the opening scene. You know the line the main character says at the very end. You have lived with these people for years, in the shower, on long drives, at three in the morning.
Then you sit down to write chapter one, and the middle of the book is a fog. Who is in chapter eleven? What does she know by then? How do you keep ninety thousand words straight?
IdeaM gets you from that fog to a full draft you can print, read in an evening and mark up with a pen — so your energy goes into making the book great, chapter by chapter.
From one idea to every chapter, step by step.
Open Build, choose Novel, and answer a few questions. Only the story is required — leave the rest blank and IdeaM fills it in. Your answers steer everything that follows.
It asks you first
- What’s the story? An idea, a premise or a “what if”
- A working title, if you have one
- The kind of book — literary, mystery, thriller, romance, fantasy, science fiction, historical or horror
- Whose eyes we see through — third person or first person
- Past or present tense
- Who it is for — adult, young adult or middle grade
- How it should feel, who it is about, and where and when it takes place
- A book it should feel like, as a touchstone
- Whose name goes on the title page
Then it builds, in order
- 1Title and logline
A title with alternates, a one-sentence logline, the hook, the theme and the books it sits beside.
- 2Characters with arcs
What each one wants, what they truly need, the wound in the way, who they are at the start and who they become. Anyone you named stays as you described them.
- 3The world
Setting and era, the places the story uses, the rules of this world and the texture of daily life.
- 4Story structure
Three parts, beat by beat — the inciting incident, the turns, the midpoint, the darkest moment, the climax and the resolution.
- 5Chapter-by-chapter outline
Every chapter with what happens and how it ends, and the beats of every scene inside it.
- 6The chapters, written
Each chapter written as prose, scene by scene, in the point of view and tense you chose — with a running Story So Far that tracks every chapter, where each character stands and every open thread, so names and facts stay straight from page one to the last line.
How a novel gets written, and a real one to read
The whole workflow on one page — the questions, the plan, the chapters, the continuity notes — with a real excerpt.
Read the real thing
Written by IdeaM from a one-line premise — unedited first draft.
Your whole book, in one outline you control.
The novel lands as an ordinary branch of your outline — the planning on top, the manuscript beneath it, one item per scene. It is saved chapter by chapter as it is written, so a long run can pause and pick up again with every finished chapter in place.
- Drag a chapter to a new place and the book follows.
- Zoom into one part and hide everything else while you revise.
- Rewrite a scene yourself, or ask the AI to rework it in plain English — and see every AI change before it lands.
- Read and correct the Story So Far, and the chapters that follow build on your version.
- The Night Bakery
- Title and Logline
- Characters
- The World
- Novella
- Story Structure
- Chapter-by-Chapter Outline
- Story So Farcontinuity notes
- Manuscript
- Part One
- Chapter 1 — The Rhythmthree scenes
- Chapter 2 — The Slip
- Part Two
- Part Three
A book you can hold, and an e-book you can carry.
When the chapters are written, one press turns the manuscript into the two forms readers and editors actually use.
Book PDF
Set like a real book: a title page with your name, a Contents page with page numbers, a page for each part, every chapter starting on a new page, scene breaks and page numbers. It opens the moment it is made.
ePub e-book
The same book for Apple Books and other e-readers, with every part and chapter in the reader’s table of contents — perfect for reading your draft on a phone or tablet, or sharing it with a first reader.
A novella or a full novel — your call.
About 25,000 to 30,000 words in twelve chapters across three parts — a draft you can read in a sitting or two.
Aims for 65,000 to 75,000 words in twenty-four chapters across three parts. A longer run, saved as it goes, and a full novel draft at the end of it.
Written by the free AI on your own computer, or in Hybrid with your own Google AI key: Google plans the book and polishes the prose while your computer drafts every chapter. Before you start, IdeaM tells you about how many Google requests the run needs.
Chapter 1
The Rhythm
Eliza wipes flour dust from the counter, the white powder catching the sickly yellow glow of the single overhead bulb. The bakery, "The Midnight Loaf," smells permanently of yeast, burnt sugar, and melancholic coffee. It is 12:03 AM. She moves with a practiced economy, her movements honed over years of this solitary vigil. The damp cloth she uses against the polished marble counter drags across the surface, lifting fine, ghostly drifts of flour. The sound is a soft, rhythmic shush-shush, a scrubbing sound that scrapes away the residue of the previous day, and the day before that.
She stops scrubbing, her elbow resting on the cool stone. Her gaze sweeps over the expanse of the counter, noting the faint, almost invisible stain near the cash register—a smudge of something dark, perhaps old espresso, perhaps something else. She dips her cloth into a bowl of warm, soapy water, the scent of citrus cleaner cutting sharply through the yeasty atmosphere. She attacks the stain, scrubbing with increased vigor until the marble gleams back to a uniform, pale grey.
The sourdough starter sits on a wooden board nearby, a milky, bubbling ecosystem captured in a glass jar. Eliza approaches it, her attention narrowing to the surface film. She carries a small wooden paddle, its surface worn smooth by decades of use. She stirs the mixture, adding a precise measure of lukewarm, filtered water. The starter bubbles, a slow, determined life force asserting itself against the ambient chill of the early hour. It smells richly alive, earthy and faintly acidic.
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Everything around the writing, too.
A novel is the tip of a lot of thinking. IdeaM holds all of it.
Research in your Second Brain
Save articles, interviews, videos and notes about your world and your period, then ask your own material questions and get answers from it.
Capture on your phone
A line of dialogue on a walk, a name for a minor character in the queue — Quick Capture saves it in seconds, even offline, straight from your Home Screen.
Outlining built for story
Drag chapters and scenes around, zoom into one part, tag storylines and characters, and see the shape of the whole book at once.
Rewrite in your voice
Rework any scene with a plain-English instruction, and teach Your Voice how you write so the drafts start sounding like you.
You have the final say
Every AI change is shown to you first, and nothing lands until you approve it. Snapshots and unlimited undo keep every version safe.
Dictate anywhere
Talk a scene through out loud and watch the words land on the page, wherever you can type.
A complete first draft — and the real writing begins.
What you get is every chapter on the page, in your chosen voice, with the structure already carrying the story. The sentences only you would write, the moment that makes a reader stay up past midnight — that is yours to shape, and IdeaM makes the shaping fast. Revise, reorder, cut and polish until it is unmistakably your book.
Bring the story you have been carrying.
Give it a sentence. Get back a first-draft novel to read, rework and make your own.