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Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
The professional book writing app built for serious authors
203 followers
The professional book writing app built for serious authors
203 followers
Epilogue is the writing environment built for writers who take their craft seriously. Whether you're drafting your first novel, structuring a script, compiling a collection of poems, or sharing a finished book with a large alpha reader group, Epilogue keeps you in flow. No distractions, no server lag, no lock-in.
Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
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@ravdeep_chawla This seems like a great and actually valuable product for writers!!
Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
@milhoornaert thank you 🙏 please test it out and let me know if you have any feedback
Oh, I felt this one personally. Twelve docs, character notes in three places, feedback living somewhere in the void.
Love that you’re solving the boring-but-deadly part of writing: keeping the book alive while everything around it tries to turn into chaos.
How Epilogue handles messy second drafts? when the story is already there, but half of it needs to merge or die.
Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
@marie_saxon 2 ways to manage that.
In the sidebar, you can directly rearrange chapters and make the narrative flow
Switch to planning tab and redraft the narrative the way it makes most sense to you
I like the first option more personally but a couple of beta users expressed interest to make it more of a visual whiteboard. I'm still thinking about that
The private alpha-reader feedback default is the genuinely underserved bit, agree with Gal there. The thing I would want settled before trusting a multi-year manuscript to any tool is Thami's format question. A book has to outlive the app it was written in. If the store underneath is plain markdown with a sidecar for the character and feedback metadata, and export is lossless, that is the real moat. It means I could walk away clean, which is exactly why I would stay. Is that the shape of it?
This market (serious author writing apps) is genuinely crowded - Scrivener, Ulysses, iA Writer, even Obsidian with the right plugins. All of them make the same "no distractions, keeps you in flow" promise.
The alpha reader sharing angle is the one thing here that's actually underserved. Getting a draft in front of 20 beta readers without turning it into a Google Docs mess is still painful, and nobody's solved it cleanly yet.
What's the concrete differentiation from Ulysses specifically? That's probably your closest direct competitor for the "offline-first, focused, serious author" positioning - and the answer to that question is what would make me switch.
Wow, keeping alpha reader feedback private really helps one loud note not anchoring the whole group! Most writing tools get this backwards by defaulting to public comments... Love the product, you seem to be on the right path
Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
@artstavenka1 thank you :) please give it a shot
great launch! this looks really interesting. as an academic writer, I’m always bouncing between docs and apps while writing, which is okay for single manuscripts but tough for books or monographs…I’ve got an upcoming project and I might give this a try…how does it compare to an app like scrivener (other than cost)?
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Isn't this something similar to Elipus?
Epilogue. Write novels, scripts & poetry
@busmark_w_nika ellipsus? I haven't used it. Is there something you like more about it.
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@ravdeep_chawla Maybe their UI, but it has been a long time I used it.