Enter the Limelight

Most software for writers is built for the writer who is already finished — the one with a publishing schedule, a back catalogue, and a system that mostly works. There’s nothing wrong with that. It just isn’t where most people start.

I started writing fiction without a system. I didn’t have an agent, an editor, a template, or a clear idea of what a chapter even was. What I had were a lot of half-thoughts in a lot of half-finished documents, and the slow conviction that the tool was getting in the way of the book.

So I’m building the tool I wish I’d had when I started. It’s called Inkwell, it’s chapter-first, it works offline, and it gets out of the way.

The studio

Limelight is a small studio. It’s me, mostly, and the writers I work with as I build. The plan is simple:

1. Make Inkwell the kind of tool a brand-new author can sit down with on a Saturday morning and finish their first chapter by lunch.
2. Keep it the kind of tool a working novelist still chooses ten books in.
3. Tell that story honestly here, in the journal — not as marketing, but as a record of the work.

If that sounds like your kind of place, come along. The curtain is already up.