Finish the Book You Already Started
Most writing tools want you to start over in their box. The interesting drafts are never at zero — there are eleven chapters, a folder of character notes, an outline for the second half and a title you changed twice. Upload the file and it comes in as a book you can keep working on, with what you wrote still in it, formatting and all.
However far along you are
Free accounts can import a draft and plan the whole book. Chapter outlines cost 3 credits each, imported chapter text 10, and images and formatting 3 more.
Part of the AI writing software overviewWatch a draft come in
Uploading a .docx, telling the tool how developed the draft is, and the manuscript arriving as a book with its chapters, characters and formatting in place.
Recorded in the product. No edits to the interface.
Tell It How Far Along You Are
The import asks one honest question — what is actually in this file — and extracts accordingly. Each level includes everything above it, so you are never made to pretend a pile of notes is a finished draft.
A description, some scattered thinking, a paragraph about who it is for. The import pulls out the title, the description, the genres, the target audience and your writing style — the last one read from your own prose, so the chapters you write afterwards sound like the notes you wrote before.
Costs nothing. This is the level a book with no chapters starts at, and it is enough to plan the whole thing.
Everything above, plus the cast: names, backgrounds, personalities, motivations and arcs, extracted from however you happened to write them down. Character sheets you kept in the same document, or descriptions buried in the prose, both work.
The characters land as editable character sheets, not as a block of text you have to re-enter.
Everything above, plus per-chapter outlines pulled from the file — chapter titles, plot events, locations and twists. For non-fiction, the outlines come with key topics and learning outcomes per chapter. 3 credits per chapter.
Give each outline entry a heading like "Chapter 1: …" and the tool knows where one stops and the next begins.
Everything above, plus your chapters imported as they are. Up to fifty chapters in one import, at 10 credits each, with an optional 3 credits per chapter to keep the images and rich formatting from a .docx. For non-fiction there is a further option to pull out the citations and references from each chapter.
The chapter after your last imported one is the free chapter on that book, so you can see the AI write into your own manuscript before spending anything.
How the Import Works
Six steps. You can run it on a brand new book, or on a book that already exists here if you decide halfway through that the draft on your hard drive should be in it after all.
Upload
Drag in a .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .epub, .txt or .md. The recommendation in the product is plain: .docx gives the best results because it is the format that carries structure. PDFs are accepted but discouraged, because a PDF has a layout rather than a document, and the extraction has to guess.
Say what's in it
Notes only, characters described, chapter outlines, or full chapter text. Then, if the draft has chapters, how many. The count matters: the tool checks it against what it finds and tells you plainly if it found more or fewer, instead of silently importing half the book.
Choose the extras
Preserve images and formatting, for .docx files. Extract characters, for fiction. Extract citations, for non-fiction. Each one is a switch, each one is priced on the same screen, and the total is shown before anything runs.
Import
Details, characters, outlines and chapters are read out of the file and written into the book as ordinary editable records. Nothing is locked, nothing is marked as imported-and-untouchable.
Keep writing
The book is now a book here. Write the chapters that are missing, regenerate the ones you never liked, run the AI chat over a passage, add chapter illustrations. The imported chapters and the new ones sit in the same list and behave identically.
Finish it properly
Cover, blurb, categories, keywords, back matter, copyright page, export. DOCX export on any paid plan; formatted PDF, EPUB and print-ready files on Pro. There is also a translation step at export if you want a second-language edition.
Your Formatting Is Not Collateral Damage
The reason people do not import drafts into writing tools is that they come back as plain text — three months of headings, emphasis and tables reduced to one undifferentiated column. For .docx files, that does not happen here: turning on preserve formatting keeps bold, italic, headings, tables, line breaks and the images embedded in the document, at 3 credits per chapter. Other formats are imported as plain text, and the product says so on the upload screen rather than after the fact.
Images come with the text
Pictures embedded in a .docx are carried into the chapters they appear in. Free accounts get a 50 MB image budget per import and paid accounts 500 MB, checked before the run rather than during it.
Structure survives
Headings, bold, italic, tables and line breaks are preserved rather than flattened, so the shape you gave the manuscript is still there when it arrives.
The count is verified
If the file contains more or fewer chapters than you said, the import stops and tells you which, with the numbers, instead of importing something wrong.
Very long books have a route
Fifty chapters is the ceiling for a single import. Above that, the product's own advice is to bring the manuscript in as the first book of a series and continue as the second — which is a supported path, not a workaround.
What Makes It an Import Rather Than a Paste
The difference between a file becoming a book and a file becoming a wall of text.
Everything Lands Editable
Extracted details, characters, outlines and chapters become the same records a book created from scratch would have. There is no imported-content mode, no read-only region, and nothing you have to re-enter by hand to make the rest of the tool work on it.
Your Style Is Read, Not Guessed
Title, description, genres, audience and writing style are always extracted, at any level, including from a file that is only notes. The style comes from your sentences, which is what keeps the chapters written afterwards from drifting into someone else's voice.
Priced by What You Actually Import
Details and characters cost nothing. Outlines are 3 credits per chapter, chapter text is 10, and preserving images and formatting adds 3. Import only the outline and write the prose yourself, or import everything — the bill follows the choice.
Import Into a Book You Already Have
The import is not only available at creation. An existing book here has its own import screen, so a draft you find later can still go into the book you have already been building.
Non-Fiction Has Its Own Path
A non-fiction import extracts the details, per-chapter outlines with key topics and learning outcomes, the chapter text, and optionally the citations and references from each chapter — instead of trying to find characters in a business book.
A Free Chapter Into Your Own Manuscript
The first chapter generated after the imported ones is free. That is a real test: not a demo on a sample topic, but the AI continuing your book, in your voice, on the chapter you were stuck on.
The Drafts That Come In
Four ways a manuscript ends up half-finished, and what the import does about each.
The Novel in the Drawer
Eleven chapters written two years ago and a vague plan for the rest. Import the chapters and the characters, generate outlines for what is left, and finish from inside the book instead of trying to remember your way back into it.
Notes That Never Became a Book
A folder of thinking, a synopsis, a cast list. Import at the notes level for nothing, get the details and your writing style extracted, and build the outline from there.
A Manuscript Written in Word
A finished or nearly finished book with headings, emphasis and images, written somewhere else entirely. The .docx comes in with its formatting intact, ready to be edited, covered and exported.
A Non-Fiction Book With Sources
A guide or professional book with citations scattered through the chapters. The non-fiction import pulls the chapters and the references together, so the sourcing survives the move.
What Importing Costs
Per chapter, per switch, shown before the run. Free accounts can import and plan a whole book without paying anything.
Bringing it in
Free plan can importBook details, your writing style and the characters cost nothing. Chapter outlines are 3 credits each, imported chapter text is 10, and preserving images and rich formatting from a .docx adds 3 per chapter.
- Details, style and characters extracted free
- Up to fifty chapters in one import
- .docx keeps images, headings, bold, italic and tables
Finishing it
New chapters are written at the ordinary rate: 15 credits with Gemini, 20 with Grok, 30 with Claude Sonnet. The first chapter after your imported ones is free, and a new account starts with 100 credits.
- First chapter after the import written free
- Book cover 30 credits, chapter illustrations 15
- DOCX export on any paid plan, formatted exports on Pro
Import Questions, Answered
What writers ask before handing over a manuscript they care about.
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What happens to a draft after it arrives.
AI Book Editor
Editorial review, line edit and proofread once the manuscript is whole.
AI Non-Fiction Book Writer
Structure, chapter templates and citations for a non-fiction draft.
AI Book Series Generator
A manuscript too long for one import becomes book one of a series.
For First-Time Authors
The whole path from an unfinished draft to a published book.
The Book Is Already Started. Bring It In.
Notes, characters, outlines or eleven finished chapters — upload the file, say what is in it, and keep going from where you actually are. Your formatting comes with it, and the first chapter written into your own manuscript is free.