An AI children's book writer for the words of the story

INKFLOW writes children's books: bedtime stories, early readers, chapter books, middle grade and young adult novels. Younger stories are written in a warm read-aloud voice, and books for teenagers in a voice that does not talk down.

It writes the words only. It does not draw the pictures inside a picture book or lay out the pages. If you are making a picture book, the illustrations come from you or an illustrator.

Write my first chapter free

Writing a children's book, step by step

1
Say who it is for
Give the age of the reader as well as the idea. A bedtime story for a four-year-old and a mystery for a ten-year-old need very different words.
2
Choose the voice
For younger readers choose Friendly children's story. For teenagers, set the genre to young adult and choose the voice that fits the story.
3
Read it aloud
The first three chapters are free, with no card. Read them aloud: that is the test a children's book has to pass.
4
Add the pictures elsewhere
Download Word or EPUB files. Illustrations, page layout and printing are done outside INKFLOW.

What it does for young readers

Children who sound like children

The writer works from guidance on how real children think, talk and feel at different ages, so a child in the story is not an adult with shorter sentences.

Young adult fiction

Books for teenagers follow guidance written for that stage of life: things happening for the first time, high stakes and feelings taken seriously.

A voice made for reading aloud

Warm, simple and read-aloud. Short rhythmic sentences, gentle wonder, a little humour, feelings named clearly.

The same friends in book two

Characters, pets and places are kept in a book bible (other apps call it a story bible), so a series keeps every name and detail the same from book to book.

The children's voice, as the voice picker shows it

Friendly children's story suits: Picture books, early readers, bedtime stories, young middle grade. This is the sample you read before you choose it, quoted as the voice picker shows it.

Mara turned the little brass key. Click! The door to Grandpa's workshop swung open with a sleepy creak.

She had not been inside for ten whole years. Not since she was two and liked to chew on screwdrivers.

The room smelled of oil and dust and peppermints. Clocks covered every wall. Big clocks. Small clocks. One clock shaped like a very surprised owl.

And every single clock had stopped at seven minutes past four.

Every clock but one.

Tick, said the little blue clock by the window. Tock, it said, as if it had been waiting for her.

On the workbench sat a cup of tea. Mara touched it. It was warm.

She smiled. "Hello, Grandpa," she whispered.

The blue clock ticked a little louder.

Questions

Does it make the illustrations?

No. INKFLOW writes the text of the book. It does not draw interior pictures or lay out picture-book spreads.

How short can a story be?

Each chapter is a full chapter, and the free three come to about 10,000 words, which is far longer than a picture book. For a picture-book text, take what you need from the first chapter and cut it down.

Who checks the story before a child reads it?

You do. The text is AI-generated, so read every chapter yourself before it reaches a child, as you would any draft.

Can I publish it?

Yes. The text is yours to use. If you publish on Amazon, say that the text is AI-generated when it asks.

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