Pick your shelf
Start with Romance, Fantasy and Sci‑Fi, or Mystery and Thriller. Every shelf is open, so wander whenever you like.
A small daily writing habit
Make a little ink, every day.
Encre is a daily writing practice for people who love books. Pick a genre, get one small prompt, and write on a quiet typewriter page. You get better one page at a time.
Encre is still being built, for iPhone only. It isn’t on the App Store yet.
“Shall we make a little ink?”
A very short film, 22 seconds
A page, a typewriter, and a fox.
Pages turn, a typewriter finds its rhythm, and Fennel's tail dips into the ink.
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The film loads in a moment.
Plays quietly on a loop once you scroll to it. Tap for sound.
Shows a still picture if your phone has reduce motion turned on.
A small file that loads after the page.
270ready-made prompts
12craft skills to grow
3genre shelves to wander
A small daily rhythm
Practice without the homework feeling.
It’s a little like a learning game, only quieter. Fewer dashboards, more page.
Meet today’s quest
Each day brings one small prompt, and it tells you which craft skill it’s helping you flex. Even a quick session counts.
Keep the page
Everything saves on your phone first. Fifty words counts as a writing day, and every big draft starts with one line.
A peek inside
A quiet room to write in.
Typewriter type on a calm page. Your pieces line up on a shelf like books. Light, dark, or whatever your phone prefers.
Your phone saves first
Drafts save on your phone first, with a simple editor and a gentle fifty-word goal.
A map, not a gate
Twelve skills fill in as you practice. Nothing is locked, so wander wherever you like.
Your shelf
Your pieces line up like books. Go back to what you wrote, search your pages, and keep the habit tied to real writing.
The craft map
Twelve skills, and no locked doors.
Dialogue, pacing, tension, voice, worldbuilding, and seven more landmarks make up a hand-inked map of your practice. The more you write, the more of it fills in.
Foundations, Depth, and Mastery describe how far you’ve practiced, not how talented you are.
Prompts can aim at the skill you want to stretch next.
Wander as you like. Every landmark stays open.
Meet Fennel
A well-read fox with an inky tail.
Fennel gives the practice a face. He cheers when you show up, and he stays kind when a streak slips. The coaching side is still being designed, around noticing what’s working and asking real questions, not grades or automatic rewrites.
The kind of question he’s learning to ask:
“What feels most alive in this passage? What would happen if you stayed with it one sentence longer?”
Coaching is still in development, so you won’t find it in the app yet.
Encre is taking shape, one page at a time.
Want to hear when there’s something real to try? Send Kevin a quick email and he’ll let you know. No download yet, and no promises about when.
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