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Work · August 4, 2016

SHAXPIR 2.0

A modern cloud workspace for fiction writing & worldbuilding

SHAXPIR 2.0 launched on August 4, 2016 with 77 votes, #672 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Shaxpir is a cloud writing platform, designed for authors of long-form narratives like novels and memoirs. Designed by writers, Shaxpir offers tools for every stage of the writing process, from brainstorming and outlining to prosecraft and publishing.

It's time to start writing that novel you've been dreaming about all these years... Create fantastical worlds, and fill them full of colorful characters... Use linguistic highlighting to see your vivid vocabulary come to life. Use sentiment analysis to visualize the Emotional Journey of your entire novel. Publish your completed novel as a professional EPUB, and sell it on the Kindle and iBook stores. Shaxpir isn't just a tool for cranking out documents. It's a personal workspace where you can live your writing life, developing new ideas into novels, memoirs, short stories, articles, and more... Shaxpir provides easy drag-and-drop tools to rearrange your manuscript, changing the order and…from shaxpir.com

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