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Novels don't begin as novels. They begin as a line you're slightly embarrassed by, in a note on your phone. Scrin is the place where you're allowed to start that small — and where the small thing and the big thing are, quietly, the same page.

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"You already knew," he said. "You just didn't want to be the one to say it."

She didn't answer right away — that was the tell.

— move this to the opening of ch. 9?

Preview — illustrative

For a novel · an essay · a screenplay · a run of articles

For a novel: One tree of chapters and scenes, seen three ways: a continuous scroll, a wall of cards, an outline with editable columns.
For an essay: A line caught in a spare minute becomes a section without being retyped, and the notes you leave yourself never reach the export.
For a screenplay: Scene cards carrying their own synopsis and status, and a per-scene snapshot you can freeze before trying something else.
For a run of articles: Nested tags, wikilinks and backlinks, so a view is a question you ask the project rather than a folder you filed things in.

The whole trick

You open a fresh, untitled page on the train and let a line out — just a scrap. Weeks later, deep in the project, you reach for it: it's already inside the outline, exactly as you left it. Nobody moved a thing.

That's the draft you start today becoming a chapter tomorrow. It is the only trick Scrin knows — so it had better do it well.

One page, from a jot to a novel

A one-line note and a hundred-thousand-word draft live in the same project. Drop the scrap into chapter four: it doesn't need reformatting, renaming or re-filing — it was already wearing the right clothes. Tags, links and backlinks grow the structure around it as you go, instead of asking you to build folders first.

Every keystroke stays put

Your project lives in a file on your machine — there's no round trip to a server before you can type. Every window you open on it stays in step, and nothing leaves unless you export it.

Every version you mark is kept: go back to the sentence before you spoiled it, and see what changed.

Typing stays under 25 ms on a 127,000-word manuscript — the size we test against, and the build fails if it slips. Measured August 2026, on a seeded fixture.

A plain-text copy of the whole project writes itself every day, readable without Scrin. It installs as an app straight from your browser.

See your manuscript three ways

The same words, seen from three distances — never copied into a second tool to get there.

Continuous

The whole manuscript as one unbroken scroll, chapter flowing into chapter — the way a reader will meet it.

Cards

A wall of index cards, a title and a synopsis per scene. Shuffle the story at a glance; the text follows.

Outline

Editable columns — status, label, word count — so the plan is the manuscript itself, not a spreadsheet living next to it.

Your manuscript arrives whole — and leaves whenever it likes.

Import a .scriv project or a folder of Markdown — tested on real exports in August 2026: chapters, folders, scene labels and statuses come across with the structure you gave them.

Export to Markdown, HTML, DOCX or EPUB on any day you like, with presets and a live preview.

When the trial ends, editing locks — reading and exporting stay free, for good.

Keeping Scrin

One licence, three lengths. Every plan is the whole of Scrin — the three views, import, export, versions — with updates for the full term.

Monthly: One month at a time, renewed each month until you cancel.
Yearly: Twelve months. It renews for another year unless you say otherwise — we write to you before it does.
Two-year: Twenty-four months, the longest stretch and the quietest. Same renewal rule, same reminder.

Prices in euros, tax included, are shown before you confirm an order. Start with the free trial, no card, and cancel online whenever you like. The terms of sale (in French) cover withdrawal, refunds and cancellation.

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The small thing and the big thing, the same page.

Free until 30 November, and never less than seven days whenever you start. It opens in your browser, and what you write there stays yours to read and export — whatever you decide.