I’ve spent a lifetime in business, writing, and technology and have now combined them into ClearARC, an online platform for authors to write their next masterpiece.
It is a planning, plotting, and writing tool all in one. There is NO AI. Creative writing is ruined by AI. It makes us lazy. It destroys our imagination (nature loves efficiency, so most humans will naturally go for any shortcuts, especially if they promise the Earth and cost peanuts).
ClearARK has a dark mode (nothing to do with AI lol), which I prefer as it reduces eye strain (and makes it look so much more elegant). It also has simple gamification in the form of a daily word counter, so you can watch your progress mount (I find this hugely motivating).
It shows your daily, weekly, and monthly logins, which again, I find helps motivate me to at least write a few sentences a day, thus decreasing my procrastination and strengthening the one thing I know that always moves the needle – habit creation.
Here’s the dashboard to give you an idea:
The dashboard is a great place to start your first book by choosing one of the easy-start wizards. If you have no idea what to do, but know it’s going to be some sort of heroic adventure, then click the Hero’s Journey wizard, likewise the ‘Save the Cat’ wizard, but if you’re into something a little more esoteric, then I recommend the Kishotenketsu wizard.
On the other hand, if you have no idea what to write, then hit the Free Form button. It will let you set up a bunch of chapters, so all you have to do is start writing them (adding characters, places, and important artifacts as you go).
And by the way, when you do add those items, you can fill in a ‘why?’ field to explain why they matter here. These fields build over time into an incredible view of your book (the Timeline View).
The timeline shows all your characters, places, and items split across the entire timeline of the book. You can see everyone in it, where they are at certain points in time, what they’re using that matters to the story, and how they all change as they interact with each other.
Do take a deeper look on the ClearARC website, and take the 30 day free trial (you’ll need your credit card via PayPal, but they won’t charge you a penny until the free trial ends (and if you don’t like it, you can cancel and you’ll never pay anything – you can also cancel your subscription with no penalty at any time in the future too should you wish too).