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# **Speed up your **writing

Whether you’re linking to information sources or uploading files, Chat Thing can read from multiple sources to give you what you need.

We’ve designed Chat Thing to **only** work with the sources you provide - making it more accurate at providing tailored information.

Want to get ahead with your next piece of creative writing?

Chat Thing can help you to draft pages, set up page structures, chapters or even entire manuscripts in a fraction of the time it would take you. Giving you more time to edit and refine (it can help you with that too if you like).

You can even feed Chat Thing your back catalogue to learn your writing style, character histories and previous storylines.

## **Examples of things you can do **

### **Characterisation **

Whether you need a character to do something predictable or not, Chat Thing can give you a creative nudge.

### **Develop story arcs **

Discuss a few ideas with Chat Thing to work up your story in as many ways as you can think of.

### **Search character histories **

Want to remember what your characters said or how they reacted in previous situations? Chat Thing can tell you, in plain language so you don’t have to trawl through your previous work.

## **How it works **

Chat Thing takes information from your XXXXX

**No need to code**

It’s all done for you, just link to your website, docs or upload files and, minutes later, Chat Thing is a powerful co-author with a wealth of information.

**Chat to your thing**

Want Chat Thing to answer more questions or customise responses? No problem, chat in plain language, through Slack, Teams, or wherever it’s totally flexible and surprisingly responsive.

**Analyse**

Powerful performance tools show you what’s being asked and what’s happening.