For serial fiction

The harness for
writing web novels.

Coding got Claude Code, Cursor and Codex — tools built around the model, not just a chat box. This is that, for fiction. You describe what happens next; it drafts the chapter live, remembers everything that came before, and keeps going for two hundred chapters.

Free to use · bring your own model · about $0.017 a chapter

The webnovellm writer: chapter list on the left, the chapter being written in the centre, and a context panel on the right showing the model, prompt and running cost.

Why a harness, not a chat box

Built for the long haul

A chat window forgets. By chapter thirty it has lost the name of your protagonist's sister, the rule you set for how magic works, and the debt someone owed in chapter four. A web novel is the exact shape of problem that breaks it.

  • Every chapter carries the ones before it. Not a summary of a summary — the actual text, until it no longer fits.
  • Then it compacts, like a coding agent. Old chapters fall back to dense summaries and stay searchable in full.
  • And it looks things up. Unsure who Joren was? It searches your earlier chapters mid-draft instead of inventing him again.
The context panel showing a retrieval trace, the model used, the prompt that produced the chapter, and a running spend breakdown.

Prompt, revise, accept, continue

Four steps, then repeat until the story is finished.

  1. 1

    Say what happens next

    A sentence is enough. "The confrontation at the harbour, and she finally reads the letter." Vague is fine — it fills in the details from what you have already written.

    The prompt composer at the foot of the writer, with a chapter instruction typed into it.
  2. 2

    Watch it write

    The chapter streams in word by word. You can see what the model is thinking, which earlier chapters it searched, and exactly what the turn is costing you.

    A chapter streaming into the writer, with a live activity trace in the side panel.
  3. 3

    Revise until it is right

    Tell it what to change in plain language, as many times as you like — or open the text and edit it by hand. Nothing is locked.

    The revise box open beneath a finished draft chapter.
  4. 4

    Accept, and move on

    Accepting files the chapter away and writes the summary that lets chapter 200 still remember it. Then you are on the next one.

    An accepted chapter with its summary being written.

Cost

Free to use, and clear about the rest

The app is free to use and takes no cut on what you spend. You pay the model provider directly, at wholesale rates, and you decide how much that is — from a fraction of a cent a chapter to whatever the best model of the month charges.

Common questions

Start your novel

Bring an OpenRouter key and write chapter one in the next five minutes.