Short, concrete pieces on what Akapitly does to your text — and what is worth knowing before you send a book anywhere. No theory for its own sake.
Akapitly step by step — for beginners
From a blank page to a finished file: pasting text, the Format button, working as a whole or in chapters, saving and export.
Analysis in Akapitly: rhythm, repetition and style
Highlighting paragraph and sentence length, repetition and echoes, AI Detox, the noise meter and statistics — how to read your text by the numbers.
How to format a manuscript for submission
The standard step by step: font, line spacing, margins, title page and file format — for US Letter and UK A4 alike.
Dialogue in English prose
American double quotes vs British single quotes, dialogue tags, the em-dash vs a spaced en-dash, the ellipsis — with examples.
When prose starts to sound like AI — and how to fix it
Four patterns typical of machine-written text, and a way to fix each one.
How to make an EPUB ebook yourself
How EPUB differs from PDF, how to make a finished file in Akapitly, how to check it in Calibre, and where to publish.
Akapitly is a free manuscript editor for writers. English typography, rhythm and style analysis, export to Word and EPUB — all in your browser.
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