The book you stopped writing is still a book.
Writers Will reads the manuscript you already have and shows you what is actually on the page — who is telling the story, how each voice is written, and where the thing stands still.
It measures your text against the intent you declared yourself, not against anyone else's idea of a good novel. You write down what you meant. It tells you how far the writing has drifted from it.
It runs on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded. And it never rewrites a word — the difference between what you meant and what you wrote is the work, and the work is yours.
You could feel it was flat. You couldn't point at where.
You got a whole manuscript out of it. Readable, grammatical, nothing obviously wrong. And still every character sounded like the same person, and the harder you steered the less moved. A feeling can't be fixed. A number can.
Eight voices in a manuscript written by hand
- Enzo 24.7 words per sentence · 3 % dialogue
- Amara 13.3 words per sentence · 0.4 % dialogue
- Yasmin 13.3 words per sentence · 19 % dialogue
- Elin 11.6 words per sentence · 12 % dialogue
- Mats 15.1 words per sentence · 20 % dialogue
Sentence length differs by a factor of two. Dialogue by a factor of fifty. The distances between the voices run from eleven to forty per cent. That is what eight people look like when they can be told apart.
Run your own manuscript and see where your rows land. If they sit on top of one another, it isn't your imagination — it's flattening, and it shows up in the numbers before you can put it into words.
We are not looking for AI
Writers Will cannot tell who wrote a sentence, and doesn't try. What it measures is uniformity — and uniform prose reads flat no matter who or what produced it. The same measurement catches the writer who gives every character the same mouth.
What you do about it
You write down what each voice is meant to be. Then Writers Will shows you where the text already is that, and where it isn't. It isn't a button. It's an evening — and it's the difference between a manuscript that was generated and one that is yours.
The manuscript stays with you
The measuring happens on your own computer. If you have already handed the book to a model once, you shouldn't have to do it again to find out what is in it.
The numbers above are measured on Samma vatten, the Swedish novel this tool was built out of. Writers Will reads English too — Flesch instead of LIX, English stop words, English number words.
Tell me when it is ready
Writers Will already speaks English. What is missing is the release. Leave your address and you will hear once, when it is there.
One letter, once. Your address is used for that and nothing else, it is never passed on, and it is deleted afterwards. Changed your mind? One line to support@bokbunden.se is enough.
Not out yet — but closer than this page looks. The program speaks English already; it has run in Swedish for a while as Bokbunden. What is missing is the English release, not the English measurements.
If you write in English and want to know when it is ready, or if you simply want to ask something, write to support@bokbunden.se. A person reads it.