Draft your first
novel on a loop.
Outline scene-by-scene. Anchor your voice in 500 words. Loop the agent for the other 49,500.
You've drafted opening chapters before. You've owned Save the Cat for three years. You've tried Claude and ChatGPT for fiction—the first two scenes come out competent, then the voice drifts and the draft dies in Chapter 3. The middle is where every novel dies, because outlining at the chapter level isn't deep enough and drafting alone for 200–400 hours isn't sustainable.
InkAgent solves both problems in 30 days, for $99. A complete Claude Code workspace, four custom skills, and an 8-module course that walks you from premise to published. The agent handles outline, beats, and state-tracking. You own the prose and the final edit. By Day 30 you have a 50,000-word manuscript on KDP that you can sign your name to.
Is InkAgent for you?
Three archetypes get the most out of this course. If you're one of them, the system was built with you in mind.
The Long-Stalled Novelist
You've been "writing a novel" for three to seven years. You have three or four abandoned drafts in iCloud, each one dying somewhere between Chapter 3 and Chapter 7. You don't need more craft books—you need a system that produces a finished manuscript, not another half-finished one.
The Reader Who Wants To Be A Writer
You read 30+ books a year. You have strong opinions about prose. But every time you sit down to write, what comes out doesn't match what's in your head. You don't need to be a better writer—you need an agent that writes the way you read.
The Claude-Curious First-Timer
You've used Claude or ChatGPT for fiction. You watched it drift after two chapters and gave up. You suspect the AI is part of the answer but you can't make it stick. You don't need another prompt—you need an agent-shaped workflow with rails strong enough to hold a 50,000-word manuscript together.
Meet your instructor.
Mitch Harris
Mitch built the original novel-writer Claude Code workspace that the InkAgent install is based on. He's been writing an active fiction manuscript inside it for over a year—the Tem Alchor eagle-rider story, currently sitting at 20KB+ of voice-consistent prose.
He also runs Oxide Press—the imprint that publishes books written with this process. Pulp fantasy on one shelf, tech-futurist nonfiction on the other. Books that age well.
Mitch's day job is building agentic systems for content production at scale. He uses Claude Code for fiction, marketing, internal operations, course delivery, and the imprint pipeline that publishes InkAgent graduates. InkAgent is the productized version of a system that's already producing fiction in his own writing practice.
If you've followed his newsletter or X, you know what to expect: direct, specific, no AI-tool-bro hype. The system either produces a manuscript or it doesn't.
The 7 problems every first-time novelist actually faces.
Not the ones writing-bros pretend you have. The real ones. InkAgent demolishes all seven—one module per problem, one skill or blueprint per friction point.
Outlines That Collapse In The Middle
You can outline Act 1. You can vaguely sketch Act 3. The 50% of the novel in between is the part no chapter-level outline tool actually solves.
Voice Drift After 5,000 Words
Whatever you write at the start of a session reads tight and specific. By Page 30 the voice has slipped sideways. By Page 80, you're writing in a register that isn't yours and isn't anyone else's.
Characters Doing Out-Of-Character Things
You wrote one character as cynical and reserved in Chapter 2. By Chapter 9 they're an emotional sharer. Not because you decided—because you weren't tracking it and neither was the page.
Story-State Errors That Compound
A character is in Cleveland in Chapter 4. In Chapter 7 they're in New York with no scene transition. By the time you notice it's three rewrites of work.
Generic AI-Coded Prose
You tried Claude or ChatGPT. The first chapter reads competent. By Chapter 3, every sentence has the same rhythm, every paragraph ends with a triplet, every character speaks in the same cadence. The book is no longer yours.
The Time Sinkhole
A proficient writer needs 200–400 hours to outline, draft, edit, and publish a 50K novel. That's $10,000–$30,000 of your life at any honest hourly rate. Most aspiring novelists don't have it.
The Publishing Cost Cliff
Even if you finish a draft, the published version means $2,000+ for an editor, $500–$2,000 for a cover, and $500 for a KDP consultant if you're honest. The $0 path exists—nobody shows you the exact workflow.
Outlining at the chapter level.
Almost every first-time novelist thinks an outline is: "Chapter 1: protagonist learns about the magic system. Chapter 2: protagonist meets the antagonist. Chapter 3…"
That's not an outline. That's a table of contents.
Hollywood screenwriters figured this out 40 years ago. The detailed treatment—every scene, every beat, every location, every character POV—is the majority of the work. How to Write Movies for Fun and Profit by Lennon and Garant (Reno 911, Night at the Museum) is built on this thesis: once the scene-card outline exists, drafting the screenplay is execution.
The same is true for novels. Nobody applies it to novels because outlining a 50,000-word story scene-by-scene by hand takes weeks.
Drafting without a voice anchor.
The second biggest mistake is asking the agent to "write in your voice" without giving it 500 hand-written words to anchor against.
Every word you generate after Chapter 1 either pulls toward your voice or drifts away from it. If the agent has no anchor, drift is guaranteed.
InkAgent's Module 5 is the only module where you write by hand. Five hundred words. The opening of Chapter 1. That's your voice anchor.
Treating "the agent" as one thing.
The third mistake is the worst. People install Claude Code, type "write me a novel," and act surprised when it doesn't work.
There is no single skill that writes novels. There is an outline skill (Burn the Oil), a prose skill (Rapid Draft), a voice skill (Homage), and a publish skill (KDP Launch Blueprint)—and they need to be configured to talk to each other.
Most agent-fiction attempts fail because someone tried to do all four jobs with one prompt.
A 7-module course plus four custom skills.
InkAgent installs a complete novel-writing system in your terminal in under 30 minutes. You work through the modules at your own pace—but stick to the cadence and you have a 50,000-word manuscript in KDP review by Day 30.
7 modules
Text + Loom video walkthroughs. Lifetime access.
4 custom skills
Burn the Oil · Rapid Draft · Homage · KDP Launch Blueprint.
Full workspace
42 files, 29 directories, 9 slash commands, 6-prompt stack.
30-day plan
Day-by-day cadence so you know what to do every morning.
Seven modules. One manuscript.
Each module produces a tangible artifact. By the end, you have the full novel.
Install the novel agent
Unzip a folder and have a working novel-writing agent in your terminal in under 30 minutes. No environment configuration, no "set your API key and pray."
- The novel-writer template install (42 files, 29 directories)
- 9 preloaded slash commands including
/novel:draft-sceneand/workflow:import-brainstorm - A 6-prompt composition stack loaded into every drafting call
- The 8-question voice baseline captured in the first 30 minutes
- Throwaway-test-scene Loom walkthrough so you confirm the install works
Brainstorm your novel
Dump every idea you have about the novel into one chat. Route every word verbatim into your workspace using /workflow:import-brainstorm.
- The brainstorm starter doc — 12 structured prompts that produce the right raw material
- Mixed-content import workflow that auto-detects character vs. world vs. plot
- Exact-text preservation — the command copies your words verbatim, never summarizes
- Routing walkthrough Loom showing a real brainstorm being decomposed
Configure world, characters, voice
Lock the rails the agent runs on. World bible. Three character profiles. And—the differentiator—train the agent on your personal fiction taste using Homage.
- Three-Character Configuration Pack — protagonist, antagonist, foil templates
- World bible template — Core Concepts, Factions, Limitations, Key Locations
- Homage skill setup — ingest your favorite craft books and passages
- Walkthrough Loom showing the full Module 3 sequence on a sample novel
Burn the Oil — the detailed outline
Invoke the Burn the Oil skill and produce a complete scene-card-level outline of your entire 50,000-word novel.
- Logline generator — 3 candidates from your premise + characters
- 15-beat sheet (Save-the-Cat structure adapted for novels) with word budgets
- Chapter breakdown — 14 chapters mapped to beats, POV, location, deltas
- 50–80 scene cards, each tagged with POV / location / GMC or RDC / word budget
- 6 stop-condition checks that prevent broken outlines before handoff
- 15-minute hero Loom showing a complete outline being generated start-to-finish
Drive Chapter 1 manually
The only module where you write by hand. 500 words. The opening of Chapter 1. This is your voice anchor for the agent loop.
- Chapter-setup workflow —
/workflow:chapter-setupscaffolds the directory - Voice-anchor instructions for opening prose the agent can match against
- The Line-Edit Pass Checklist — 9 points for catching voice drift early
- Continuation rhythm Loom showing
/novel:continuepicking up where you stop - Chapter 1 acceptance gates — how you know your anchor is ready for the loop
Rapid Draft — loop the work
Invoke Rapid Draft, pick your mode, set your stop conditions, and walk away. mode: prose drafts chapter prose against your Chapter 1 anchor. mode: outline expands each scene card into a writing scaffold you draft prose from by hand. Both modes loop scene-by-scene through your locked outline.
- Mode setting —
prose(agent drafts) oroutline(agent expands; you write). Same skill, same plumbing, your standard. - 5 stop-condition presets: target-50k / chapter-break / time-box-8h / voice-drift / story-state-divergence
- Voice-drift detection — every iteration compares to your Chapter 1 anchor (prose mode)
- Story-state tracker — auto-maintained file tracking characters, objects, threads
- Append-only loop log — every iteration with word count, scene drafted, drift score
- 15-minute hero Loom showing a 6-hour overnight
mode: proserun producing ~8,000 words, plus a 1-hourmode: outlinerun producing scaffolds for 5 chapters - Session-end rollup — word count, character development, recommended next action
Own the Manuscript
Edit your draft into prose you'd sign your name to. Clear AI detection AND the reader test. Whether Module 6 produced agent-drafted prose or you wrote it yourself from scaffolds, this is where the draft becomes a book.
- The 5-Pass Edit Workflow — voice reconciliation, AI-detection audit, AI-tic removal, specificity injection, read-aloud
quality:audit-ai-detection+quality:fix-ai-patternsintegration — target ≤30% AI detection per chapter- The Edit Pass Checklist — a one-page printable for every chapter
- The Author's Standard — Mitch's commitment statement, adopt verbatim or modify to your own bar
- Reader-respect framing — what passes the qualitative test, not just the detector
- 12-minute values Loom showing the 5 passes on a real chapter — before/after AI-detection scores
Export and ship
Export the finished manuscript, verify your AI-detection scores hold across the full file, and walk through the KDP Launch Blueprint to get your book live on Amazon.
- Export workflow —
/workflow:export-manuscript mdproduces a single clean.md - Final manuscript-wide AI-detection verification
- The KDP Launch Blueprint — 5 days, 8 templates, paste-and-fill workflow
- Oxide Press submission path (optional — the imprint selectively curates graduate manuscripts)
- 8-minute Loom showing the full publish workflow start-to-finish
$3,050 of course.
$99 to join.
- Module 01 — Install the novel agent$150
- Module 02 — Brainstorm your novel$200
- Module 03 — Configure world, characters, voice$350
- Module 04 — Burn the Oil (detailed outline)$750
- Module 05 — Drive Chapter 1 manually$150
- Module 06 — Rapid Draft (loop, prose or outline mode)$750
- Module 07 — Own the Manuscript (edit to publish-ready)$400
- Module 08 — Export and ship$300
Instant lifetime access to all 7 modules—plus all future course upgrades and skill improvements—for $99.
At a freelance writer's $75/hour, the 200–400 hours InkAgent collapses is $15,000–$30,000 of your life back, plus the manuscript itself.
Four bonuses. All free.
Each bonus directly neutralizes one objection. Each is a tangible asset—skill or blueprint—delivered the moment you join. Collective value: $2,300.
Total bonus value: $2,300.
Combined with the $3,050 course, that's $5,350 of value for $99.
Ready to draft your first novel?
You've been telling yourself you'd write a novel for years.
You've got a Downloads folder full of opening chapters that died in the middle.
You've tried Claude and ChatGPT and watched the voice drift after Chapter 3.
You've owned Save the Cat and The Emotional Craft of Fiction long enough that the spines are cracked—but never finished.
The system in InkAgent is the one Mitch uses for his own fiction. The Tem Alchor manuscript sitting at 20KB+ of voice-consistent prose was drafted using exactly this workflow. So was every book in the Oxide Press launch slate.
You can keep starting Chapter 1 forever. Or you can install InkAgent today and have a manuscript by Day 30.
Join InkAgent · $99Lifetime access · 14-day refund · ~$3–$6 in Claude API per full novel
Still got questions?
Here are answers to the ones we get most.
Is this a self-paced course or a cohort?
Self-paced. You get lifetime access the moment you join. Most students finish in 30 days. Some take 60. A few have hit Day 30 with a manuscript and Day 45 with the published book.
I've never used Claude Code. Is this too technical for me?
Module 1 is built for someone who's never opened a terminal. If you can copy/paste a command and run it, you can install InkAgent. The custom skills handle everything that looks technical from the outside.
I'm not a writer. I just have an idea.
That's the buyer profile. You don't need to be a writer—you need a premise and the willingness to write 500 words by hand in Module 5 to anchor the voice. The rest of the system handles the writing, not your prior craft.
My prose is flat. Won't the agent just amplify that?
This is what Homage is built for. You're not asking the agent to write generically—you're asking it to write the way the books on your shelf are written. Homage ingests your favorite passages and craft books and composes them into the prompt stack. The agent inherits your taste, not a generic AI baseline.
How much does it cost to run the agent?
~$3–$6 in Claude API for a full 50,000-word novel run. You pay Anthropic directly with your own API key. For a $99 course that lets you draft a complete manuscript, that's the cheapest part of the deal.
Does this work for romance / thrillers / fantasy / literary fiction?
Yes. The Save-the-Cat 15-beat sheet works across genres. The Swain Scene/Sequel structure works across genres. Burn the Oil produces a genre-appropriate scene-card outline based on your premise + character profiles. Homage handles voice. The methodology is genre-agnostic; the outputs match whatever you're writing.
What if I have a manuscript I've already started?
You can drop it into Module 5 as your voice anchor instead of writing 500 fresh words. Then run Burn the Oil to outline the rest, and Rapid Draft to complete the manuscript.
Will Oxide Press publish my book?
Oxide is the imprint that publishes some books written with this process. Submissions from graduates are reviewed and selectively curated. Most students self-publish on KDP using the Launch Blueprint—that's the default path. Oxide is the aspirational option for graduates who want imprint distribution.
Couldn't I figure this out myself with all the free Claude content out there?
You probably could—in 6–12 months of trial and error, the same time it would take to draft a novel manually. InkAgent collapses that into 30 days. The bonuses alone (Burn the Oil + Rapid Draft + Homage) would take a competent Claude Code developer 2–3 months to build from scratch.
14-day, no-questions-asked refund.
If you join InkAgent and within 14 days decide it's not for you, send one email and you get 100% of your money back. No interrogation, no exit interview.
The reason the refund window is short and frictionless: we'd rather refund a few people and earn the trust of everyone else than haggle. Most students who refund do it in the first 3 days—usually because they realized they're not actually ready to commit 3–5 hours/week for a month. That's fine.
You have 14 days from purchase to request a refund.