Everything a novel asks
you to hold, in one place.
Know what the book is, and when it lands.
Six questions build your Brief: the idea, the audience, why now, the change, the structure, the voice. It becomes a one-page document you come back to when the writing gets murky. Milestones puts your dates on a single line, from first draft to submission, so you always know where you are.
Every loose idea, kept in one place.
Catch a thought the instant it arrives, then search your whole manuscript in seconds.
Research, stray lines, character notes, the songs and images that set the mood. Highlight any phrase in your draft and pin a private note to it, so the thoughts that interrupt your writing become marginalia, not new chapters. Nothing about your book has to live only in your head.
Characters that
stay consistent.
A flat character is usually a memory problem, not a writing problem. Give each person a profile, dozens of prompts across every dimension of a character, their traits, relationships, and the contradictions that make them human. Once they are down, they hold, scene after scene.
Give every character a secret, even one they keep from themselves.
MANUSCRIPT
A page set the way a published book is set. Cream paper, serif type, a drop cap on the opening, and no toolbar floating over the words. Chapters stay in one continuous shape, search finds any line you have ever written here, and every save happens quietly, without being announced.
See the shape
of your story.
Lay your novel out as a single, ordered line, so every scene and beat is easy to see, weigh and understand at a glance. This is where the saggy middle finally becomes visible, and fixable.
Every event sits on one ordered line, so the whole book can be read as a shape long before it is read as prose.
Move a scene by dragging it and the whole structure follows. Each event holds its nested beats, so the novel exists as pieces before it is prose, and pieces are far easier to move than sentences.
See it as a book
before it is one.
Your manuscript rendered exactly as it will look in print: chapter pages, drop caps, page numbers and real margins. Catch an awkward chapter break, feel the weight of the whole, and write toward the thing you can already picture.
No badges, no streaks, no metrics pretending to be inspiration. Karde is built to get out of the way. Just paper, just the work, and the tools that quietly hold the book while you write it.
Drafting, notes and preview are free forever. The planning suite is free to try for 28 days, no card.
Create your free accountEverything a novel asks you to hold, in one place.
Know what the book is, and when it lands.
Six questions build your Brief: the idea, the audience, why now, the change, the structure, the voice. It becomes a one-page document you come back to when the writing gets murky. Milestones puts your dates on a single line, from first draft to submission, so you always know where you are.
Every loose idea, kept in one place.
Catch a thought the instant it arrives, then search your whole manuscript in seconds.
Research, stray lines, character notes, the songs and images that set the mood. Highlight any phrase in your draft and pin a private note to it, so the thoughts that interrupt your writing become marginalia, not new chapters. Nothing about your book has to live only in your head.
Characters that stay consistent.
A flat character is usually a memory problem, not a writing problem. Give each person a profile, dozens of prompts across every dimension of a character, their traits, relationships, and the contradictions that make them human. Once they are down, they hold, scene after scene.
Give every character a secret, even one they keep from themselves.
A page set the way a published book is set. Cream paper, serif type, a drop cap on the opening, and no toolbar floating over the words. Chapters stay in one continuous shape, search finds any line you have ever written here, and every save happens quietly, without being announced.
See the shape of your story.
Lay your novel out as a single, ordered line, so every scene and beat is easy to see, weigh and understand at a glance. This is where the saggy middle finally becomes visible, and fixable.
Shape +
Every event sits on one ordered line, so the whole book can be read as a shape long before it is read as prose.
Sequence +
Move a scene by dragging it and the whole structure follows. Each event holds its nested beats, so the novel exists as pieces before it is prose, and pieces are far easier to move than sentences.
See it as a book before it is one.
Your manuscript rendered exactly as it will look in print: chapter pages, drop caps, page numbers and real margins. Catch an awkward chapter break, feel the weight of the whole, and write toward the thing you can already picture.
Drafting, notes and preview are free forever. The planning suite is free to try for 28 days, no card.
Create your free account