Tell your
story into
being.
CharmWriter is an AI ghostwriter. Talk your story through, type it, or upload a recording, and it writes your chapters as real prose in your voice, remembering every character, place and thread as the book grows.
- Free first chapter
- No credit card
- You own every word
It's grief, but she won't let herself feel it.
Four hundred miles of keeping it shut away.
I love “four hundred miles of keeping it shut away.” That’s the grief held under the surface, and it gives you a physical way to carry it through the drive.
How does the will arrive: a solicitor, a letter in Iris’s own hand, or something Maren already knows and has been holding back?
Chapter 1
She had driven four hundred miles with the grief shut away, and she meant to keep it there.
The road gave out above the village and became a lane with grass down its spine. Nell took it slowly, the hedges dragging at the wing mirrors, and then the hedges fell away and there was only the sky, and under the sky the sea, grey and enormous and moving in a way that had nothing to do with her.
How it works
Three steps, and then a book
- 01
You tell it the story
Talk it through out loud, type it, or upload a recording you made somewhere else. Charm listens the way a good editor does, and asks the questions that pull the rest of it out of you.
- 02
Charm writes the chapter
Your telling comes back as real prose, in your voice, not a summary and not a template. Change any line, or ask for the whole passage again in a different tone.
- 03
The book remembers itself
Every character, place and thread goes into a Story Bible that keeps itself current. And Charm remembers every fact you keep, with the sentence that settled it, so chapter forty still knows what chapter two decided.
No writing experience needed. Export to Word, EPUB, Markdown, or a print-ready file for PDF, as often as you like.
Chances are, one of these is you
You do not have to think of yourself as a writer. Most people here didn't.
Watch a chapter take shape.
From the first spoken word to a finished book, in under a minute and a half. Press play and see how CharmWriter really works.
So tell it. Out loud, the way you'd tell a friend.
Charm listens, and asks what a good editor would ask, out loud. When you have said enough, it writes the scene into your chapter.
Chapter 4 · 838 words added
Chapter 4 starts that night. Nell can't sleep, so she goes down to the kitchen and finally opens Iris' letter. It's only one page. Iris says she's sorry about the summer of 98 and that the house was always meant for the three of them together, not for one of them alone.
I love that she finally opens it alone, in the middle of the night, with the house worn out from the storm. Iris says she's sorry about the summer, but nothing yet says what she did. Do you want the letter to stay vague about that, so the reader knows an apology exists without learning its cause?
She did not sleep. She lay in the bed she had slept in as a girl, under a ceiling she knew by its cracks, and listened to the storm lose interest in the house. The windows gave up their rattling one by one. The wind dropped to something that only muttered at the eaves. Underneath it the sea went on as it always had, and she lay and counted its long breaths until she was sure they had stopped meaning anything.
The envelope was on the chair beside the bed. She had carried it up with her and put it there as though it might be less of a decision at a distance. Twice she turned on her side to face away from it. The second time she got up.
A real Talk to Charm turn on the demo book Saltwater Inheritance: the writer's words as the app heard them, three sentences of Charm's spoken reply, and the opening of the chapter it wrote.
Hands-free
Speak and pause, and Charm answers, then listens again. Starting a chapter, a read-back and Write it up are spoken commands too.
Write it up
Say it or tap it, and what you told Charm lands in your chapter as prose, in your voice.
Off until you want it
Talk to Charm is switched off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Voice, on each device you use.
Everyone you mention gets a place in your Story Bible.
Give them a face, and see how they connect. Every character you talk about gets a sheet of their own, kept up to date after each session, and the Story Map shows who they are to each other.
DanielForty, lanky, with untidy dark-blond curls, two days of stubble
IrisThe siblings’ grandmother, painted as she was in her late eighties
MarenThirty-seven, small and wiry, with fair hair in a loose plait
NellForty-two, tall and spare, with dark shoulder-length hair
DanielIrisMarenNellThe four people of the demo book Saltwater Inheritance, from its Story Bible. Their portraits were made in CharmWriter.
A sheet for everyone
Who they are, how they speak, their arc and their ties to the others, filled in from what you tell. Click any field to change it.
A face, if you want one
Upload a portrait or generate one from the character's description. Until then they wear their initial.
The Story Map
Your cast as a web. The more of the book someone is in, the larger they are drawn, and a thicker line means a stronger tie.
When a chapter is done, Charm reads it like an editor.
It leaves notes beside your text, numbered where they belong, that you can fix one by one. Apply AI fix rewrites only the passage a note is about, and you see the change before you keep it.
The road gave out above the village and became a lane with grass down its spine. Nell took it slowly, the hedges dragging at the wing mirrors, and then the hedges fell away and there was only the sky, and under the sky the sea, grey and enormous and moving in a way that had nothing to do with her. She had forgotten how the land simply stopped. She had designed car parks and libraries and a school for four hundred children, and she had never once drawn an edge as final as this one.
The house sat where it had always stood, grey stone gone green at the corners, set so near the cliff that it looked less built than left there. She stopped the car and kept her hands on the wheel.
The doubled ‘stood’ in ‘The house stood where it had always stood’ is the one instance where a listed repetition costs something. Consider replacing it: ‘The house sat where it had always stood’.
Nell’s aside about designing car parks, libraries and a school is the chapter’s one moment where her voice tips toward the literary rather than the architectural.
Chapter 1 of the demo book Saltwater Inheritance and two of the notes Charm left on it. The fix shown is the one the app made.
A scored read
Prose, pacing, dialogue, sensory detail and character voice, each scored, with the strengths named as well as the faults.
Notes where they belong
Each note is numbered in your chapter and says why it matters to a reader. Going to its passage costs nothing.
Fixes you approve
Apply an AI fix to one passage and review it as a diff, or work through a repeated problem one place at a time.
Charm remembers what your story has settled, so chapter twenty still knows what chapter one decided.
When you complete a chapter, Charm proposes the hard facts it settled, each tied to the sentence that settled it. Keep them with one press, and Charm has them in front of it in every chapter after.
Facts this chapter settled. Each one comes from a sentence you wrote.
DanielDaniel came back early from music camp after a fortnight, returning home for the last two weeks of August 1998.
NellNell was sent away to Bristol on a train in August 1998, believing Daniel was still at camp the whole month.
Nell has found an unsent letter addressed to her at her parents’ house in Bristol, dated September 1998.
IrisIris made Daniel and Maren promise not to tell Nell that Daniel had come home early from camp.
Why did Iris make Daniel and Maren promise to keep his early return secret?
The window that opened after Chapter 3 of the demo book Saltwater Inheritance.
From your prose only
Facts come from text that reached your manuscript, never from the chat, a transcript or your notes.
Nothing without your OK
Tick the ones you want, or leave them for later. Unticked facts wait in the Story Bible, in the “To remember” row.
Change your mind
Edit or forget any fact later, in the character window under What Charm remembers.
Charm asks what only you can answer.
Once a session has been processed, Charm reads what you told it and asks what a good editor would: why someone did something, what happens when, which detail matters. Answer in a line, talk it through in the chat, or dismiss it.
Beyond the fact that Nell is wrong about Daniel's presence, what actually happened that summer that each sibling experienced or remembers differently?
The core mystery drives the entire narrative; knowing the shape of what occurred (without revealing it yet) will help you control pacing and plant subtle foreshadowing throughout.
What does Nell fear she'll discover or be forced to confront if she allows herself to fully remember and grieve summer 1998?
Her emotional defenses and avoidance are the engine of her character arc; naming her specific fear will make her resistance more visceral and her eventual reckoning more earned.
Why did something go wrong at Daniel's camp, and why did Iris insist on secrecy rather than simply telling Nell the truth about his early return?
Iris's choice to hide Daniel's presence and separate Nell from her siblings that summer is the emotional core of the story; understanding her reasoning will clarify what she's apologizing for in the letter and what she means about the house belonging to all three.
Why does Maren keep the will secret for a week before telling Nell and Daniel, and what does she hope will happen during that week?
Her secrecy mirrors Iris's own hidden truths; clarifying her intentions will deepen the layers of concealment running through the story and explain her emotional state when they arrive.
Real questions Charm asked about the demo book Saltwater Inheritance, each with its reason.
Stuck on someone? Ask them.
Open a character from your Story Bible and ask them anything. They answer in the first person, from what your book says about them, in your book's language.
NellNell, why haven’t you opened Iris’s letter?
Because it’s an envelope. It’s still an envelope as long as I leave it shut.
Read it or hear it
Each character speaks in a voice you choose for them, and their face pulses while they talk.
Two ways to ask
Talk to them directly, or ask a script editor about them.
Your chapters stay yours
Nothing said here reaches your manuscript. A fact you like joins the Story Bible only when you add it yourself.
Illustrate it. Finish it. Read it as a book.
Put a picture in any chapter, drawn from your own prose or uploaded from your phone. When the book is ready, Finish Book checks it, reviews it, adds a cover and gives you the files.
She had driven four hundred miles with the grief shut away, and she meant to keep it there.
The road gave out above the village and became a lane with grass down its spine. Nell took it slowly, the hedges dragging at the wing mirrors, and then the hedges fell away and there was only the sky, and under the sky the sea, grey and enormous and moving in a way that had nothing to do
ExportEPUBWord DocumentPrint-Ready HTMLMarkdownChapter 1 of the demo book Saltwater Inheritance. The illustration and the cover were both made in CharmWriter.
Pictures from your own words
Charm reads the chapter and writes a scene description you can edit, and shows the cost before anything is made. Or upload your own photographs.
Finish Book
A readiness check, a review of the whole book, front and back matter, a blurb, and the Cover Designer for the front and the back.
Four formats, all yours
EPUB for e-readers, Word for editors, print-ready HTML for a PDF, and Markdown. The cover, the contents and your pictures come with it.
A few more ways to get the book written.
Bring a manuscript you started somewhere else, ask about anything as you go, write in your own language, or let Charm write a first draft for you.
Bring the book you started
Import a Word, Markdown or plain-text manuscript, confirm where each chapter begins, and Charm builds the Story Bible by reading your prose. The import is free; the Story Bible build shows its credit cost before it starts.
Importing a manuscriptAsk anything without leaving the page
Charm Chat floats beside your work. It knows your Story Bible, answers research questions too, and never touches the manuscript.
Charm ChatWrite in your language
The app speaks English, Ukrainian and Czech, and every book has its own language: Charm drafts, asks and speaks in it. Our demo book was made three times, once in each, and each one opens its own way:
- English
She had driven four hundred miles with the grief shut away, and she meant to keep it there.
- Ukrainian
Шістсот кілометрів Неля не вмикала радіо.
- Czech
Osm set kilometrů Nela nezapnula rádio.
Or let Charm draft the whole book
Describe the book and Charm plans it, quotes the exact credit cost, and writes every chapter. At the big turns it says which road it took, so you can take another. What you get is a first draft to work on, not a finished book.
Charm writes your whole bookWhat it costs
No subscription. Ever.
You buy credits once and spend them as you write. One credit is about a thousand finished words, so a typical chapter costs around two. Packs start at $2.99, and the popular one is 11 credits, about 11,000 words of finished book.
- Two free credits to start, about a chapter
- No card to begin
- Credits never expire
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about CharmWriter.
Covers made in CharmWriter. The books on this page and their author, Anna Whitfield, are fictional, written on our demo account to show the app.
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