Draft, revise, and check your novel against its own story details. Westward keeps provenance, continuity, and craft visible across the manuscript, so AI can help without making authorship a mystery.
A Narrow Light
Mara found the greenhouse door standing open, though she was certain she had latched it before the storm.
Beyond the glass, each pear tree held its own small weather. Rain trembled on the branches. The red scarf at her wrist had come loose.
At the far end of the aisle, a lamp was burning in the potting shed. She had not seen a light there since October.
Mara crossed between the trees slowly, listening for the scrape of a boot against stone.
Continuity Check result
AI reviewThis requested pass found Mara’s scarf described as blue in Chapter 8. Review the possible contradiction.
Built for long-form consequences
Generation is the easy part. The hard part comes later: finding the sentence you never revised, the fact that changed halfway through, and the setup that never paid off. Westward is built for that work.
Westward marks generated passages and keeps the mark until you revise them. Walk every untouched passage, chapter by chapter, before the book leaves your hands.
Word-level origin · chapter and book progress
Use Canon for live checks on forbidden forms and changed numeric facts. When you want a broader pass, run the AI Continuity Check against the chapter and its Record.
Live Canon checks · AI continuity pass · chronology
Inspect structure, character arcs, promises and payoffs, prose patterns, and voice across the manuscript. The work stays yours; the evidence gets easier to see.
Structure · voice · machine tells
From first page to final pass
Westward does not hide the machinery. You can see the context, the insertion, and the work still waiting for your hand.
Start from a blank chapter or import a manuscript. Your chapters, outline, cast, world, and canon live beside one another.
Westward assembles relevant details from the Record for writing and revision tools, then shows what the model actually looked at.
Generated prose arrives highlighted and waits for Keep or Discard. Its origin stays visible until you change the words yourself.
The Record
What this novel knows about itself
The book
The world
The prose
The Record
Keep the book’s premise, cast, places, canon, outline, structure, and voice together. Relevant entries travel with writing and revision requests when a tool needs them, while Canon keeps the book’s fixed facts ready to check as you work.
AI without the billing fog
Westward has no hidden credit system. Model routing is explicit, and the History view records what actually answered each request.
On your machine
Run Westward locally to use Ollama on your hardware or the Claude Code session tied to your existing subscription. Those options stay on the machine where they are available.
On the website
On the hosted website, AI uses the metered provider you choose. Settings identifies remote models clearly, while project History records the selected model and actual or estimated spend.
Who Westward is for
This is not a one-click book machine. It is a serious workspace for writers who want assistance, accountability, and a manuscript they can stand behind.
Bring the draft. Keep its history. See what still needs your hand before the manuscript leaves yours.