Don't just start your next novel

Finish it

Build your writing habit. Meeting goals and positive feedback help you succeed. Experience our tools for writing, planning, goals, stats, competition, feedback, formatting, and productivity that will help you write more and have fun doing it. All features

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Make your habit Satisfying

Stat tracking

Feel satisfaction and stay motivated by tracking words per hour/day/minute, total minutes, words needed to meet a deadline and more.

"Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yourself: How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?"

— James Clear | ATOMIC HABITS
Motivation
Satisfaction
Goals
Make it exciting

Compete

against others or yourself

Compete with fellow writers, race against the clock, or compete against your previous week to supercharge your productivity. This feature is designed to keep you focused and motivated, helping you to achieve your writing goals more efficiently. You can also climb the writing leaderboards and see your name shine at the top – be it daily, monthly, or yearly. Don't just think about writing more; do it with a dash of thrilling competition. Join our community, push your limits, and make your writing routine exciting.

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Make your habit easy

From outline tags

to detailed chapter feedback

Writer's block is REAL. One of the best remedies is knowing where you want to go. Brainstorm a premise, create an outline, come up with key plot points, and add tags to get more done with your writing. Chapter tags are also used to construct a visual timeline — and more.

Automatically generated timeline

When you tag chapters in your project, we generate a timeline of characters, events, settings and more to provide a visual overview of how your story evolves.

Easy, Attractive

World class feedback

from anyone

Getting great feedback from readers can be hard, but it doesn't need to be. A library of editing marks, combined with reactions with a click of a button and topped off with tags your readers can rate, WritingHabit provides guidance that gets you meaningful feedback.

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Quick Action Bar

When a reader highlights your content, the Quick Action Bar (QAB) lets them react emotionally, respond with some of the most common editing issues, or leave a comment so you more specific and in the moment feedback.

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Pick your own editing marks

The QAB is also configurable. Find yourself always using a few specific editing marks? You can choose your favorites to improve your efficiency.

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Contribution scores

Vote on excellent feedback that shapes your story or just makes your day. Reward the community so the best readers can stand out.

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Better feedback

with Betareader questionnaires

Use chapter tags to construct a visual timeline AND define what you want beta readers to rate. You can also configure what questions they'll be asked. We automatically aggregate results to help you create a digital focus group.

#p: Point of view
#ch: Character
#em: Emotion
#se: Setting
#st: Structure

Regular tags are ignored by reviews and the visual timeline

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Feature list

Here's everything you can expect when you use WritingHabit, but this list is always growing. If you're looking for a feature, or want to suggest a new one, we recommend jumping on discord, or voting for features people have already requested.

Writing

Analytics

Project and daily goal tracking
Chapter stats summary
Writing streaks
Words per hour (chart)
Words added/cut/inserted (chart)
Stretch goals (automatic)
Cross-project words/min (chart)
Most productive day/time
Forecasted target completion
Words needed to finish
Current vs. previous week

Motivation

Leaderboards (Day/Month/Year)
Sprints: Solo or multi-player

Planning

Outliner
Chapter authors notes
Novel structure templates
Folders and reference documents
Drag-and-drop re-ordering
Plot points
Tags (supercharged)
Visual timeline

UI Customization

Focus mode
Dark/Light mode
Typewriter mode
Editor configuration (widgets)

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Content management

Import/Export (.docx, .html)
Chapter version history
Version comparison
1-Click E-pub format/export
Backup to Google Drive

Editing and Feedback

Writing groups
Betareader questionnaire
Quick action bar (editing marks)
Reviews and review relevance
Suggest edits (inline)

Formatting

1-click indent all paragraphs
1-click split chapter
Styled section breaks
Drop caps

Access

Public or private projects
Shareable links
Collaborative writing

Assistive (non-AI)

Emotion prompts

Author platform

Profile and activity feed
Automatic chapter publication activity
Notifications for followers and subscribers
Direct messages

Reader engagement

Read public projects
Follow projects and authors
Contribution points

General

In app notifications
Mobile friendly website
Very involved dev team

Looking for something more?

We're always looking for ways to improve. Reach out on Discord or create a new Feature request if there's something that would help you!