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An AI thriller writer that keeps the clock ticking for the whole book

A thriller promises the reader that the next chapter cannot wait. INKFLOW writes thrillers from the opening threat to the last reversal, with the pace planned across the whole book rather than scene by scene.

Spy, crime, legal, medical, techno, political, domestic and psychological thrillers, military and naval action, and heists. Name the kind you want and the writer works from guidance for that kind.

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Building a thriller with AI

  1. 1
    Name the threat
    Who is in danger, from whom, and by when. A deadline gives a thriller its spine.
  2. 2
    Pick the pace
    Choose Thriller: fast & punchy for action and spy stories, or Cinematic for crime, legal and medical thrillers. Each voice has a sample to read first.
  3. 3
    Read three chapters free
    The opening chapters are written free, with no card, so you can see whether the pace holds.
  4. 4
    Let it run to the end
    Carry on in the app, or order the whole novel and follow it chapter by chapter.

A real Chapter 1, written from one line

The idea typed in: “A ferry engineer on the night crossing from Holyhead finds the ship tracking switched off and a stranger in the engine room who already knows her name.” · voice: kinetic. The first lines below are INKFLOW’s output, unedited. The full piece ran to 1,034 words.

The Quiet Crossing

The phone buzzed against Nia Gethin's hip at twenty to two, somewhere off the Skerries, with the ship rolling a slow fifteen degrees and the coffee in her mug leaning with it.

A text from her sister. *Can't see you on the map. You sunk? x*

Nia almost laughed. Carys tracked the *Menai Star* every night on that app, a little green arrow crawling across the Irish Sea, because their dad's boat had once gone quiet off Rosslare for six hours and nobody in the family had ever quite recovered. The arrow was a comfort. The arrow said *still there*.

Nia thumbed the app open herself.

Holyhead. Dublin. Grey water between. Forty-odd green arrows dotted the screen, fishing boats and tankers and the late freight run out of Liverpool.

No *Menai Star*.

Signal, probably. Mid-channel, the phone dropped bars like loose change. Except the other ships were updating fine, their positions ticking forward every few seconds. One of them, a dredger, was barely four miles off.

Nia set the mug down. The engine control room hummed around her, a low B-flat she'd stopped hearing years ago, and now heard again, all at once, thick as syrup in the ears.

The AIS repeater sat in the corner of the console, a cheap little screen the company had fitted after the inspection in 2019. Nobody down here ever looked at it. Nia leaned in.

TRANSPONDER: TX DISABLED.

Not faulty. Disabled. Someone had pressed a button.

The bridge phone rang four times before anyone picked up.

… the excerpt ends here.

The thriller craft built into the writer

Pace by design
The writer works from a pacing guide: the ticking clock, how long to stay in a scene and when to cut away.
Tension that climbs
A tension ladder raises the stakes step by step, so the middle of the book does not sag.
Chapter endings that pull
Ten kinds of cliffhanger, and how to resolve each one on the next page without cheating the reader.
Details that hold up
Procedures, weapons, ships and agencies are researched for the book first, and a continuity record keeps every fact the same to the end.

Questions

Can it write a spy thriller?
Yes. Spy stories get guidance on tradecraft, cover identities and modern intelligence work, on top of the pacing tools every thriller gets.
Can it write a series with the same hero?
Yes. A series of up to ten books and over two million words, with full continuity: the hero's history, injuries and enemies carry from book to book.
How long is a thriller?
A standard novel runs to about 102,400 words in 32 chapters. A novella is shorter and faster.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. The first three chapters are free, with no card.

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One sentence from you, and the first chapter is written while you watch.

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First 3 chapters free with a free account. No card.