Septangular

A writing studio for novelists.

Write your book scene by scene, keep its world in a Story Bible, plan it in an outline, and watch it grow. When it’s done, build a manuscript to send out, or an ebook and a paperback to publish. Every save is kept, so nothing is ever lost.

Coming soon to Mac, Windows and Linux

See how it works: the quick start →

Seven sections, one book

• Manuscript Your book as parts, chapters and scenes, in plain text you own. Write, rearrange, split and rewrite, with nothing ever thrown away.
• Outline Plan the story as nested beats linked to the scenes that tell them, from scratch or from a classic structure; see every plot thread across your chapters, and the story in the order it happens.
• Story Bible Characters, places and things, each with its own entry, read and edited beside the book, and shared by every book in a series.
• Notes Scraps, web links, pictures, PDFs and documents, kept beside the book and easy to find.
• Statistics Daily goals, a due date that sets your pace, streaks, a projected finish, and how each chapter has grown.
• Versions Every save kept as a version of the whole book, with snapshots, Compare and Restore, a search through everything you ever cut, and a record of how the book was written.
• Publishing Manuscripts in standard format for agents and editors, and, with Septangular Publish, ebooks, paperbacks and hardcovers ready for the stores.

Why Septangular

• Your words, in plain filesEvery scene is a plain text file, and the book’s shape is a readable XML file beside them. Open them in any program, keep them in any backup, and take them anywhere. Nothing is locked away.
• Nothing is ever lostEvery save is a version of the whole book. Compare any scene with how it was, find a sentence you cut months ago, try a rewrite beside the original, or take the book back to a snapshot.
• Built for long booksParts, chapters and scenes you can drag into a new order; a corkboard of index cards; a Stash for what doesn’t fit yet; and series of books that share one Story Bible.
• See the whole storyAn outline linked to the scenes that tell it, from scratch or from a classic structure; every plot thread across the chapters; and a timeline of the story in the order it happens, flashbacks and all.
• A second pair of eyesComments in the margin, and style checks for the words you lean on, the phrases you repeat and the sentences that could work harder. Found on your own computer, never by AI.
• Works with what you haveStart from a Word document or a Scrivener project. Send your editor a Word copy, and take their changes back in scene by scene, even after you’ve kept writing.
• Keeps you writingDaily goals, a due date that sets your pace, streaks, a projected finish, and a highlight on everything you’ve written today.
• From first draft to finished bookStandard manuscript format, as PDF or Word, for agents and editors. And with Septangular Publish: ebooks, paperbacks and hardcovers ready for the stores.
• Written by youNo AI writes, suggests or rewrites a word. Septangular is a place to write, not a machine that writes for you.

Free to write, one price to publish

Try Publish before you buy: without a licence, ebooks and print books are built as a sample of their first three chapters.

Written by you

Septangular has no AI features and never will. Your words stay on your computer, in open formats any program can read.

Hear when it’s ready

Septangular isn’t out yet. To hear when it is, write to info@septangular.com.