WriteShapeFree online writing software
Find the beats. Follow the characters. Give your next screenplay or book room to grow.
Screenplays & text-only books.
No account needed to write. Writing tools and exports are free.
What if the light went out?
Keep the promise.INT. LANTERN ROOM — NIGHT
Mara grips the hand crank. Beyond the glass, a boat slips toward the rocks.
MARA
Then we keep the light moving.
Promise. Pressure. Choice. Change.
One story. Two ways to write it.
The same moment from The Last Light, in screenplay and book form. Choose the format that fits the story you want to tell.
Scene headings, action and dialogue.
INT. LANTERN ROOM — NIGHT
Mara grips the hand crank. Beyond the glass, a boat slips toward the rocks.
MARA
Then we keep the light moving.
Chapters, paragraphs and a text manuscript.
Mara gripped the hand crank. Beyond the glass, a boat slipped toward the rocks.
“Then we keep the light moving,” she said.
From the first spark to the next draft
Bring a rough idea, a half-finished chapter or a scene that needs another pass. There is a place for every stage of the writing.
01 · Outline & Focus
Keep your scenes or chapters in view, then give just one of them your full attention. Focus mode opens a section in its own writing view while every edit stays connected to the draft.
Bookmarks bring you back to the good questions. Tabs and split panes keep the pieces you need close by.
Explore screenwriting Writing a book? Start hereINT. LANTERN ROOM — NIGHT
Mara grips the hand crank. Beyond the glass, a boat slips toward the rocks.
MARA
Then we keep the light moving.
02 · Beat Sheet & Beat Guide
A promise. A complication. A choice that changes everything. Give the moments in your story a shape, connect beats to passages, and follow their pacing.
Plan the movement within a scene or across chapters. Keep the plan beside your words as the draft finds its way.
03 · Character tools & Insights
See where characters speak within a screenplay scene and compare dialogue with action. When it is time for a read-through, highlight a character's cues in the exported PDF.
Writing a book? Keep character histories, motivations and relationships alongside your text manuscript.
MARA
Then we keep the light moving.
04 · Your work, ready to share
Make a screenplay PDF for a table read, or choose narrower pages for a phone. Export a book manuscript as PDF, Word, EPUB or RTF.
Keep an editable Fountain or Markdown copy for the next draft. Local saves and all supported exports are free. Book mode is for text-only manuscripts.
Turn a Fountain script into a PDFMara grips the hand crank.
MARA
Then we keep the light moving.
05 · Writing goals & space to think
Set word and time targets that fit your writing life. Follow your progress, give a scene another ten minutes, and let the pages add up.
Use Zen mode when you want a quieter workspace. Your writing, planning tools and device autosave are included free.
A little time for the story you want to tell.
06 · Connected services
Google Drive and live collaboration connect your writing with your files and your people. Both are available at no charge during public beta. Beta access never automatically becomes a paid subscription.
Open and save your own Drive documents from WriteShape. Your storage allowance and sharing permissions stay with Google.
Share a document in Drive and open it in WriteShape. Live collaboration connects automatically, with names and cursors right where people are writing.
Outside, the last boat disappears Alexinto the fog.
MARA
Then we keep the light Jordanmoving.
Where will you start?
Scene headings, action and dialogue. The space to make the next exchange work.
Explore screenwriting →A text manuscript, chapter by chapter. An outline for the long way through.
Explore book writing →A short screenplay example, with a little help finding the shape of each line.
See the formatting guide →A little structure. More room to write.