A Complete Novel Writing Studio, Built Right Into WordPress
If you’re an author who already runs a WordPress site, why juggle a separate writing app, a separate outlining tool, and a separate progress tracker? Indie Novel Kit brings everything you need to plan, write, and finish your novel into one place — your own site.
Write without distraction
A clean, distraction-free editor with live word counts, chapter status tracking, and accurate per-chapter progress bars. When you need to disappear into the work, Focus mode strips away everything but your words. And you’ll never lose a sentence — Indie Novel Kit autosaves to the server every minute, with an instant local backup in between.
Plan your story, your way
Choose from five professional story-structure frameworks — 3 Act Structure, the Hero’s Journey, the Snowflake Method, Save the Cat, and Dan Harmon’s Story Circle — or write a free-form outline if you’d rather plan organically. Whichever you choose becomes your book’s active outline, visible right alongside your manuscript as you write, with a progress bar that tracks exactly how much of your plan is filled in.
Build your world
A dedicated worldbuilding database for Characters, Locations, and Items — and if your story needs more (factions, magic systems, starships, anything), create your own custom categories with their own fields. Mark entries as shared across books for series writers.
Track your progress
Your dashboard shows word count, chapter completion, outline progress, and daily writing goals at a glance — and you can share that progress publicly with a customizable widget for your readers, complete with social-media-ready progress images.
Everything stays organized
- Drag-and-drop chapter reordering
- Front and back matter — copyright, dedication, acknowledgements, and more, with example text to get you started
- Snapshots of every chapter so you can roll back any change
- Recycle bin and Archive so nothing is ever truly lost
- Full backup and restore (.ink) — your entire book in one file
- Import existing manuscripts from Word (.docx) or HTML, automatically split into chapters
Built by an author, for authors
Indie Novel Kit was built from the ground up by someone who actually writes novels — every feature exists because it solves a real problem in the writing process. No bloat, no subscriptions, no sending your manuscript to someone else’s server. It’s your site, your book, your words.
Indie Novel Kit doesn’t use AI features. No AI writing suggestions, no AI-generated content, no machine involvement in your writing process. What you write here is yours alone.
Built for writers who still do their own thINKing.
Ready to start? Install Indie Novel Kit and create your first book in seconds.