Word (.docx)
For editors, agents and anyone who asks for a manuscript file.
Export and publish
When the draft is done, it goes wherever it needs to.
The writing room’s Publish mode puts exporting a file and publishing to the Ascrivia Library in one place. Your book is never stuck here: export it in six formats whenever you like.
Start writing freeFree to start. No card, no trial.
Print-ready pages, for reading on paper or sending a proof.
EPUB
For e-readers, so you can read your own book the way readers will.
Markdown
Plain and portable, for any other tool you write in.
Web page
The whole book as one .html file you can open anywhere.
Plain text
Just the words.
Compile the book, not just the text
Exporting gathers your chapters and scenes in binder order into one book, with chapter titles laid out the way you choose. You decide what goes in: front and back matter, synopses, notes or research, and any scene you’d rather leave out for now.
Publish to the Ascrivia Library
- Publish the whole book, an excerpt of its first chapters, or an unlisted link only the people you send it to will find.
- The published copy is frozen. Keep revising; readers see the changes only when you publish an update.
- Readers open it in a reader with a typeset cover, leave notes for you, and heart the books they love.
- You choose whether to recommend it to readers here, which also lets search engines list it. Unlisted books never are.
- You can show how the book was written: days of writing, sittings and hours, never the text of your drafts.
Your words stay yours
Download any project as a .quill backup whenever you like, and open it again later. Snapshots keep earlier versions of every scene, so no draft is ever lost.