How to use SameGROUND Author, step by step

1. Start here

What SameGROUND Author is

SameGROUND Author is a writing tool for fiction. You give it a voice to work with: samples of your own writing, or three writers you admire. It then does two things with that voice.

• It reads your writing back to you. It gives you notes tied to places in your text, and a figure for how close the text is to the voice you chose.
• It writes towards that voice. A short draft from a brief, a new take on a paragraph, or the next part of a book.

You decide what to keep. Nothing SameGROUND Author writes replaces your text until you choose it.

Signing in

1. Go to the Author page and click Create account. Top right of the page, in gold. You must be 18 or over. Give an email address you can read.
2. Open the email SameGROUND Author sends you and confirm your address.
3. Click Sign in (top right) and sign in. It worked when you see the workspace, with your name or email and Sign out at the top right.

A new account comes with a free trial of 1,000 words. It is given once and does not start again. There is one free trial per person and one per email address.

If a free trial has already been used with your email address, the workspace tells you straight away, in a box above the menu: "A free trial has already been used with this email address. Choose a plan to start writing." Click Choose a plan in that box. Your Account page opens in a new tab, where you choose a plan (section 11). Nothing is charged until you subscribe.

The menu

Under the page header there is a menu bar. It stays at the top of the screen as you scroll. It has four places to work in, then Help and Account at the right-hand end:

The words you have each month

SameGROUND Author is measured in words, not credits. Under the menu there is a grey bar that starts "Voice for this piece:" and names the voice this piece is read against or written towards. In a narrow window its items wrap onto a second line, so Change voice always stays inside the bar. Once your figures have loaded, the bar also shows how many words you have left, after the voice: "N words left", followed by "of N this month". On the free trial it says "of N in your free trial" instead.

• Every button that uses words tells you the figure before you click it. The figure is on the button itself, after a dot, for example Read it · 531 words or Write the next beat · about 1,000 words. A line near the button says how the figure is worked out and how many words you have left. (The take and Regenerate buttons give it in brackets in their name instead, for example Regenerate beat 3 (about 1,500 words).)
• Until your figures have loaded, the line says "What this will use shows here once your usage has loaded."
• Waiting does not use words. You are charged for words, never for time.
• If something fails, you are not charged. The message says "Nothing has been charged."
• If the last piece of work took you just past your words, the bar shows "0 words left". That is not an error; see section 11.
• Click the words figure in the grey bar to open your Account.

The three kinds of button

• Dark green: the main action of a panel, such as Read it back or Write the next beat.
• Light green: every other action.
• Amber: a button that clears, removes or replaces something.

Most amber buttons ask first. The first click changes the button's words for about 8 seconds. Click it again within those 8 seconds to go ahead. If you do not, or you move to another button, it goes back to its own name and nothing happens.

Help on the page itself

• Rest the pointer on a button for about a third of a second and a short description appears. It says what the button does, whether it uses words, and what it changes or clears. The same description appears when you reach a button with the Tab key. Press Esc to hide it.
• On a phone, each main (dark green) button shows its description as a small line inside the button, under its name.
• Most panels, and some parts of a book's page, have a small round ? beside the heading. It opens this guide at the section for that panel, in a new tab. Help in the menu opens the whole guide.
• When SameGROUND Author is working, a panel with an egg timer appears under the button you pressed, after about half a second. It shows the time so far and the usual time. It says Do not refresh, close this tab or press the button again. Do as it says while it shows.

2. Setting up your voice

SameGROUND Author needs a voice to write towards and to compare your writing against. Do this first. You only need to do it once, and you can update it later. (Some things work without a voice: Check my writing, in section 3, and the readings, which then show no voice-match.)

Build your main voice

1. Click Voice home in the menu, then Open voice library. In the dark green box on the left. You can also click Change voice at the right-hand end of the grey bar.
2. Choose how to give SameGROUND Author the voice, with the two tabs near the top of the panel:
   • Three writing samples: three passages of your own writing.
   • Name three writers: three writers and one book by each.
3. For samples: paste a passage into each of the boxes Sample one, Sample two and Sample three. Or click upload a file under a box to load a .txt or .md file. A line under the box then says how many words came in. Each sample needs at least 500 words, and the three together at least 2,000.
4. Read the line above the buttons. It counts as you paste, for example: "Your samples come to 2,185 words. Building your main voice from them will use 283 words." The same figure shows on the button: Build / update my main voice · 283 words.
5. Click Build / update my main voice. At the bottom left of the panel, in dark green. Wait. It usually takes 1 to 2 minutes. It worked when the box headed Voice status says "Your main voice saved · version N. Your other saved voices were not changed." and a Return to my work button appears. On Voice home the green box now shows your voice profile. If it is long, click Show the full profile to read all of it.

After a short summary, the profile says who is talking: what the writing notices, how it stands towards the reader, how it regards the people in it, its humour and temperature, what it leaves unsaid, the questions it keeps returning to, and what it never is. Then it says how the sentences are built: syntax, sentence length, vocabulary, rhythm and dialogue. It is asked to describe the voice in its own words, without quoting your samples. Read it: if it does not sound like the writing you gave it, set up your voice again with different samples.

Your voice stays as you built it. SameGROUND Author does not rebuild it on its own: it changes only when you rebuild it yourself or choose a different voice. Each reading names the version it was measured against, for example "Your main voice, version 6", and Voice home shows the current one. Your original samples are kept.

How much sample text your plan accepts

If your samples come to more than your plan accepts, the line above the buttons tells you before you click, for example: "Your samples come to 6,300 words, over your plan's 6,000. Remove some text before building." Shorten a sample until that line gives the figure the build will use, then click Build / update my main voice.

If you click it anyway, SameGROUND Author refuses to build the voice and says: "Your samples total 6,300 words, and your plan accepts up to 6,000. Remove some text and try again, or choose a larger plan. Nothing has been stored." Nothing is charged. The message offers no Retry, because the same samples would be refused again: shorten them first.

Save as another voice

Besides your main voice, you can save other voices and choose one for a piece: a writer you are writing towards, a voice to aim for, or one character's voice. Saving one does not change your main voice. A voice saved from samples is built from all three, as your main voice is, and writes from its own samples only: nothing of your main voice goes into it.

1. In the voice library, fill in the samples or the three writers, as above.
2. Type a name in Name for another voice (for example "My narrator") and choose a Kind of voice: writer, voice to aim for, or character.
3. Click Save as another voice. At the bottom of the panel, beside Build / update my main voice. From samples it takes a minute or two, like building your main voice. It worked when Voice status says "Saved "My narrator", using 283 words. ..." (from named writers, with no figure) and the voice appears in the list at the top of the library, under Writers, Voices to aim for or Characters.

Saving another voice from samples uses the same words as building your main voice from them: the figure is on the button, Save as another voice · 283 words, and in the line above the buttons. Nothing is charged if it cannot be built. Saving one from three named writers is free. To work with it, click Use beside it in the library list (the button then says Active). Delete beside it (amber) removes it for good. It asks first: the button says "Delete it? Click again", so click it again within 8 seconds.

Show profile beside a saved voice shows the profile SameGROUND Author keeps for it, in plain English, as Voice home does for your main voice. It is free and changes nothing; Hide profile closes it. A voice saved from named writers shows the writers you named. A voice saved from samples before 17 October 2026 has no full profile to show. To have one, give its three samples again and click Save as another voice: that uses words, as the button shows, and adds a new voice, while the old one stays in the list until you delete it.

Change voice

The grey bar always names the voice for this piece. Once you have saved another voice, the bar shows a drop-down list instead. Choose Your main voice or one of your saved voices. Changing the voice is free. Any result on screen that was made with the old voice is cleared, and the page says "Voice changed. Run the text again to read it against this voice." On Voice home, the card Voice for this piece has a Change voice button too.

Change voice, at the right-hand end of the grey bar, opens the voice library. Load my existing main voice, a link lower down in the library, loads the voice you built before. Back without changing (bottom right) leaves without changing anything.

3. Write & mirror

This is where you work on a single piece: a scene, a chapter, a short story. On a wide screen there are two panels side by side. On the left, Original or brief: your text. On the right, Read, write, compare: what SameGROUND Author does with it. On a phone the right panel is below the left one.

Put your text in

1. Click Write & mirror in the menu.
2. Type or paste into the big box. Or click Upload above the box, then choose a .txt or .md file. The word count shows above the box, and a line says "Saved in this browser just now."
3. Click Continue. At the bottom right of the left panel. Nothing happens if the box is empty.

Choose one of the three directions

The right panel shows three cards. Click one. Then read the line above the main button, and click the button.

Each note has a heading saying what kind of note it is, such as Craft, Style or Voice. A note that your writing reads as if a machine wrote it is headed Machine-like. In Examine, each note also carries one of four words saying how firm it is: Shown in the text, Well supported, A reading, or Open question.

Voice-match: what it is, and what it is not

After Read it back you see a box headed "Voice match, compared against" and the name of the voice. It has one figure from 0 to 100, a word for it, and five bars: Rhythm, Diction, Syntax, Tone and Figuration.

• The figure is how close your text is to the chosen voice. The words say what it means: Reads as the writer (85 or more), Shares the manner (60 to 84), Some of the manner (40 to 59), A different voice (under 40). A writer's own new pages usually read as the writer; a skilled imitation, or another writer of the same period or manner, usually shares the manner. Under 60, a passage or a beat is marked as drifting.
• It is not a mark for quality. A brilliant passage in a different voice will score low. A dull passage in the right voice can score high.
• It is not a check of who wrote the text, and not a grade.
• Change the voice and the figure changes, because it is measured against a different voice.
• With no voice set up there is nothing to compare against. The page then says "No voice-match was returned for this run, so none is shown." The notes are still there.

Generate from a brief

1. In the left box, write a brief: what the piece is about, who is in it, where it happens. Click Continue.
2. Click the Write card. Under it, check that the tab Generate from a brief is selected. (It is to start with.)
3. Type the length you want in Length of the draft, in words. Until you do, the line above the button says "Set the length of the draft, from 50 to 2,000 words, to see what it will use." Once a length is set, the line says, for example, "This will use about 300 words, and never more than 330." The button shows Write towards my voice · about 300 words.
4. Click Write towards my voice once. It usually takes under 2 minutes. It worked when the result appears in the right panel: your brief, headed Original or brief, beside the draft (one above the other on a phone). The draft's heading says whether a review was run on it: "Draft as written", with "SameGROUND Author did not check it after writing it" beside it, or "Reviewed draft". Just under the heading are Use the whole draft and Copy. Below the draft, under "Choose what becomes working text", each paragraph of the draft has a row of its own.

For anything longer than 2,000 words, tick This is a long-form project, a book. under the length box. The button becomes Open the long-form planner, which takes you to Long form.

Takes: Punchier, Quieter, Closer to the voice

In each paragraph's row you see "Another take (about N words):" and three buttons.

1. Click Punchier, Quieter or Closer to the voice in the paragraph you want changed.
2. Wait. A panel with an egg timer appears under the buttons and says "The rest of the draft is not touched." It worked when only that paragraph has changed. Every other paragraph is word for word as before.

If SameGROUND Author marked passages of the draft as having drifted from your voice, they are highlighted, with a line such as "2 passages drifted from your chosen voice", a Regenerate this passage (about N words) button for each, and Regenerate all drifted when there is more than one. They are charged like a take.

Use this, Keep mine, and putting the result into your text

• Use this is in each paragraph's row and is selected to start with.
• Keep mine appears when the result was made from your own text (not from a brief). Click it, then choose which of your original paragraphs to keep from the list that appears.
• At the bottom: Apply my paragraph choices puts your mix of paragraphs into the left box (it is not there for a draft from a brief). Use the whole draft puts the whole draft there. (For a reviewed draft it says Use the whole reviewed draft, and for a re-voice Use the whole re-voiced text.) Copy copies the draft so you can paste it elsewhere.
• Use the whole draft and Copy are also at the top of the draft, just under its heading. Both do exactly what the pair at the bottom does.

It worked when the left box holds the chosen text and a note says "Your chosen version is now the working text." Undo last acceptance, above the box, puts back what was there before. All of these are free.

When our copy check stops a rewrite

SameGROUND Author checks every rewrite (a take, a re-voice, a regenerated passage or beat) for wording repeated from your samples. If every rewrite it tried repeated such wording, it uses none of them, and nothing changes. The first three such runs in any 24 hours are free and History does not list them: the page says "Nothing changed: the rewrite repeated wording from your samples, so it was not used. This was free. Up to 3 runs our copy check stops are free in any 24 hours." After that, each counts as a reading, like any run where nothing changed, History lists it, and the page says "Nothing changed: the rewrite repeated wording from your samples, so it was not used. Up to 3 runs our copy check stops are free in any 24 hours, and you have used them, so this one counted as a reading." (For a beat it starts with the beat's number, for example "Beat 3: nothing changed.") If only some passages were stopped this way, the page says which, and the run counts as a reading, as when nothing better comes back.

Clean a draft

Under the Write card there are three tabs: Generate from a brief, Guided start and Clean a draft. With Clean a draft, paste a draft into the left box (yours, or one from another tool) and click Clean my draft. SameGROUND Author edits it towards your voice and reads its own result before showing it. It takes about 2 minutes for every 1,000 words: a chapter of 3,500 words takes about 7 minutes, and a short draft 2 to 3 minutes. It counts the cleaned draft it writes, and never more than the length of your draft: the line above the button says "Cleaning counts the cleaned draft it writes, at most N words, the length of your draft." If it finds nothing to change, it counts as a reading of your draft instead: half its words, and never fewer than 200, but still never more than your draft's own words. Guided start is covered in section 4.

• Your story stays yours. Cleaning changes how your draft is written, never what it says. Every event, fact, name, number and detail stays, and every line of dialogue stays word for word. Nothing is added and nothing is cut, the ending included. SameGROUND Author checks the cleaned draft against yours before showing it, and puts right anything that changed. If it can't, your text stays as it is and nothing is charged: "Cleaning changed something in your story (an event, a fact or a line of dialogue) and could not put it right, so your text is unchanged. Nothing has been charged. Click Clean my draft to try again." Notes about what happens in your story are shown to you, and left for you to decide.
• A voice-match for the cleaned draft. Tick Also score the result against the voice (a voice-match) above the button if you want a figure for how close the cleaned draft is to the voice. It counts as a reading of the result, and the line above the button adds it to the figure before you click. It is left unticked unless you tick it, and the page remembers your choice.
• When nothing changes. If SameGROUND Author finds nothing to change towards the voice, it says so, and your text stays as it is: "SameGROUND Author read your draft and found nothing to change towards the voice you chose, so your text is unchanged. It counted as a reading of your draft: N words." If the cleaning does not finish, it says "The cleaning did not finish, so your text is unchanged. Nothing has been charged. Click Clean my draft to try again."
• Dashes. If your own writing uses no dashes (at least 1,000 of your words, from your voice samples and the draft you are cleaning, with not one dash), SameGROUND Author writes for you without them. Any that come back anyway are taken out, free, by changing only the punctuation of those sentences; every word stays the same. A sentence that cannot be changed that way is left as it is.

Check my writing, and the meter

Lower down in the right panel, under the result, there is a section called Authenticity, optional. It is separate from the voice-match and never changes it.

1. With your text in the left box and Continue clicked, scroll down the right panel to Authenticity, optional.
2. Read the cost line, then click Check my writing. It worked when you see a meter headed "Passages that sound like AI" with three steps: None, Some, A lot. Below it the passages are highlighted in yellow, with a numbered list of reasons and a caution.

The meter is a position on a coarse scale. It is never a number. These signals often misfire on real human writing. Treat the result as one thing to weigh, not as proof. Check my writing works even before you have set up a voice. It counts half the words it reads, and never fewer than 400. For example, a 354-word text uses 400 words.

Re-voice

When Check my writing has marked passages, a button Re-voice these passages appears under the result, with a line under it saying what it will use.

1. Read the line under the button, for example: "The marked passages are 239 words. ... About 500 words in all." The button shows the same figure.
2. Click Re-voice these passages once. It worked when the result says "The re-voiced version is ready below, beside yours, to compare." The re-voiced version appears where a draft would, headed Re-voiced text. Only the marked passages were rewritten; the rest is word for word as you wrote it. A line says what became of the passages, for example "All 7 passages were rewritten." Your text in the left box has not changed until you choose the result.

Re-voice writes towards a voice. If you have not set one up, and have not chosen another saved voice, there is no Re-voice button. The result says instead: "Re-voice rewrites these passages towards a voice, and you have not set one up yet. Set up your voice, then check your writing again." Click Set up my voice beside it to open the voice library (section 2).

Re-voice counts like a take: the words it rewrites, never fewer than 300, plus a reading of the marked passages. If nothing closer comes back, your text is left as it is and it counts as a reading. If our copy check stops every rewrite, nothing changes and it is free, up to three times in any 24 hours.

Forensic examiner

Forensic examiner, beside Check my writing, is for reviewing a text by someone else. Open Before you start: what you know, and what the reading is for first, and record what you knew about the text before reading it, what else you have about it, and what you mean to use the reading for. The result says whether it found a few, several or many features often seen in machine writing, marks them in the text, and lists what was recorded about the reading, with cautions. It is not a finding about who wrote the text, and the Terms say it must not be the only basis for a decision about anyone. It uses the same as Check my writing.

Clear the page

Clear the page empties the page so you can start a new piece. There are two copies of it, both amber, and both do the same.

1. Click Clear the page. At the top of the left panel, at the right, under the heading Original or brief. The second copy is in the right panel, under the result.
2. The button now says "Clear it? Click again". Click it again within about 8 seconds. (If you wait longer, it goes back to Clear the page and nothing is cleared.) It worked when the left box is empty and a line above it says "New working text started."

It clears the text in the box, this browser's saved copy of it, the results on screen, the card you chose and anything typed under Before you start: what you know, and what the reading is for. Your voice, your books and your History are not touched. Copy anything you want to keep first. It is free.

4. Start from a blank page (Guided start)

Use this when you have no text and no brief yet. SameGROUND Author asks you some questions, proposes directions, and builds a plan with you. No story text is written at these steps. At the end the plan becomes a book in Long form.

There are two ways in. On Voice home, click the card Start from a blank page (marked Begin). Or, in Write & mirror, after Continue, click the Write card and then the tab Guided start. Both open the same panel. A row of steps across the top shows where you are: Questions, Direction, Outline, Story notes and plan, Write and resume. A voice must be set up first (section 2): the plan and the book are built towards it.

1. Questions. At the top it shows the chosen voice, with Change voice beside it. Fill in what you know: Form, Target length, Genre or category, Intended reader, and so on. You can leave most boxes empty. Under Starting point, choose Invent directions for me or I have an idea seed.
2. Click Propose three directions. At the bottom right of the panel. Wait 1 to 2 minutes. It worked when three direction cards appear.
3. Click the direction you like. Its fields open below (Working title, Reader promise, Premise, Shape). Change anything you want.
4. Click Compare two outlines. It worked when two short outlines appear, each saying how it differs, what it takes for granted and where it could go wrong.
5. Click the one you prefer, then Build the plan from this outline. It worked when the plan appears: Title, Premise, Synopsis, Roadmap, the story notes (characters, places and things), Timeline, Constraints and a chapter plan.
6. Read the plan and change anything. Each chapter has a title, its share of the length, a purpose and its beats. Add a chapter adds one to the chapter plan. Remove this chapter (amber, in each chapter) takes one out: it asks first, "Remove it? Click again", and what you typed in that chapter is lost.
7. Click Approve, save and begin. It worked when the book opens in Long form, ready for its first beat, with the line "Project saved. Review the first beat instruction, write it with SameGROUND Author, or choose Edit or take over and begin yourself." (section 5).

Back to the questions, Back to direction and Back to the outlines take you back a step. They are free.

5. Long form: writing a book in beats

A book is written in beats: parts of up to 2,000 words each, written one after another. SameGROUND Author keeps the plan, the text so far and the voice the book was started with (the line "This book is written towards:" names it). You can write a beat, let it write several, take over and write yourself, save, pause and come back.

Start a book, or open one

1. Click Long form in the menu. If a book is already open, click Back to My books. Back to My books is the first button in the bar at the top of the book. It saves any changes and takes you to your list, headed My books, at the top of Long form. Free.
2. To open a saved book, click Resume beside it in the list headed My books, at the top of Long form. The book opens with its bar at the top of the window.
3. To start a new one, under Start a new book, type the Total words and the number of Chapters, then click Plan and begin. Free. A voice must be set up first (section 2): the book keeps the voice you start it with. It worked when a new "Untitled project" opens, with a line such as "Chapter 1, beat 1. (1 of 48)" for a book planned in 48 beats.

To give the book a title and a plan, open Edit the story notes, chapter plan and project details (a folded section; click it to open). Fill in the title, premise, roadmap, story notes and so on. The beat plan lets you change the instruction or length of any beat not yet written. Click Save story notes and plan. Free. It worked when it says "Story notes and plan saved."

The bar at the top of a book

When a book is open, a bar stays at the top of the screen, under the menu, as you scroll. The book's main actions are in it, in this order:

• Back to My books: saves any changes and takes you to your list of books. Free.
• Read the whole book (only for a book of 1,000 words or more; section 7). It shows its figure, as on any button that uses words.
• A book in a series: opens a small panel just under the bar, to start a sequel from an earlier book (section 13). It is always there. When none of your other books has been read whole or has a record, it is greyed, and pointing at it says "Read an earlier book whole first, then you can carry its characters over. Free."
• Write the next beat, with its figure.
• Copy: copies the whole book, with its title, so you can paste it elsewhere. It says "Copied." Free.
• Downloads: opens a small panel just under the bar with Word (.docx), Plain text (.txt) and Markdown (.md) (section 9). Free.
• Scan the voice, when it is shown.

The two panels open one at a time, and each has a Close button. The bar's button for the open panel is shaded darker. Until the book has some text, Copy and Downloads are greyed, and pointing at them says why.

A few tools sit beside what they work on, not in the bar: Auto-draft from here above the text; Edit or take over, Save changes and Save and pause in the row that stays at the foot of the window; Show the whole text under the folded text; Regenerate beat N beside a beat that drifted; and the record's own buttons in The whole book and Characters.

After "Go to:" the bar has jump links: Text (the book's text), The whole book (the whole-book reading), Characters (characters, places and things) and Record (the record made by reading the whole book; it shows once there is one). Use the bar whenever you cannot find a button on a long book.

Write the next beat

1. If you want, type a note in Anything on your mind for the next part? It goes to the next part only, exactly as you type it.
2. Read the cost line under the shaded row with Auto-draft from here, for example "This beat will use about 1,000 words, and never more than 1,100." The button in the bar shows the figure too: Write the next beat · about 1,000 words.
3. Click Write the next beat once. (For a new book it says Write the first beat.) In the bar at the top of the book. It usually takes 2 to 4 minutes. It worked when the line under the book's text says, for example, "Beat 1 written, 1,057 words, voice-match 91." and the new text appears at the end of the book. If the copy check changed the beat and fewer words were charged than written, the line also says what was charged, for example "1,406 words (1,402 charged)".

A beat needs a length before it can be written. If it has none, the page says "Set this beat's length in the plan first, so you can see what it will use before it is written." Set it in the beat map (above). If your book ends with a line saying THE END, SameGROUND Author asks about it first (section 6).

SameGROUND Author checks each new beat for runs of 8 or more words in a row taken from your samples or from earlier in the book, and rewords the sentences that hold them once, free. If some are still there, a note appears under the line for that beat, for example "A note on beat 4: Some sentences in this beat still repeat 8 or more words in a row from your samples, after one attempt to reword them. Please check them before you use this text." The note stays until that beat is written or regenerated again.

Auto-draft and Pause

Auto-draft from here is in the shaded row above the text. It writes every remaining beat, one after another, each charged the words it writes. The button shows the total, as Auto-draft from here · about N words, and the cost line under it says "Auto-draft writes the N remaining beats: about N words in all". This can use a lot of words. Every remaining beat must have a length set first.

While it runs, Pause after this beat appears beside it. Click it and SameGROUND Author stops when the beat it is writing is finished. Each beat is saved as it is written.

Edit or take over, Save changes, Save and pause

Under the book's text there is a row of buttons. It stays at the bottom of the screen as you scroll.

• Edit or take over: the text becomes editable. Change anything. If a beat is still to be written, Complete this beat manually appears: write it yourself after the existing text and click it. Free. Return to reading view takes you back.
• Save changes: saves your edits. It worked when "Saved to your account." shows beside the buttons. SameGROUND Author also saves on its own a moment after you stop typing ("Autosaved to your account.").
• Save and pause: saves and pauses the book. It says "Saved and paused. You can close the browser and resume later."

All three are free.

Scan the voice

Scan the voice is in the bar at the top of the book. It shows how close each beat SameGROUND Author has written is to the book's voice, from the scores already kept, and finds the weakest. It is free. If a beat SameGROUND Author wrote or rewrote has no score yet (a rewritten beat, or one whose score could not be read when it was written), the scan scores it first, one beat at a time, also free. Text you wrote yourself, and chapters you brought in, have no score, so a scan of a book brought in finds none until SameGROUND Author has written beats for it.

1. Click Scan the voice. The button says "Scanning ..." for a moment, or "Scoring beats ..." while it scores beats that had no score yet, which takes a few seconds a beat.
2. A short line appears in the bar at the top, for example "Done: median voice-match 82 across 51 scored beats.", with a button See the result at the top. (With nothing scored it says "Done: no beats are scored yet." If it scored beats first, the line ends, for example, "It also scored 2 beats that had no voice-match yet, free.")
3. Click See the result at the top, or scroll up. The full result is near the top of the book, under its title. For example: "91 median voice-match across 1 scored beat, on-voice."
4. If a beat has drifted from the voice, an amber button Regenerate beat N (about N words) appears under the book's text, with a line saying what it will use. Click it only if you want that beat rewritten. It asks first: the button says "Replace beat N? Click again", so click it again within 8 seconds.

6. Bring in a manuscript you have already written

You can bring in a whole book, or as much of one as you have. It comes in as a book of its chapters, as you wrote them. Bringing it in is free: nothing is read until you ask.

1. Click Long form. If a book is open, click Back to My books (the first button in the bar at the top of the book).
2. Click Bring in a manuscript you have already written to open it. Under Start a new book and Plan and begin, below your list of books.
3. Type the book's Title.
4. If you want to write more after it with SameGROUND Author, type how many words in Words still to write, optional. SameGROUND Author plans that much more writing after the book. If you leave it empty, the book opens with every part already written: Write the next beat then says Project complete, and you can add more later with Add more to write (see below).
5. Click Choose a Word, Scrivener, .txt or .md file and pick the file. A Word (.docx) file is read straight in: its text and chapter headings, without deleted tracked changes, footnotes or pictures. A Scrivener project comes in from a .zip of it: in Scrivener, choose File, Back Up, Back Up To..., tick Back up as ZIP file, and choose that .zip (or zip the project's .scriv folder yourself). Only the Draft folder comes in, in binder order, without the documents left out of the compile, the research, or the comments and footnotes kept beside the text. Inline annotations and inline footnotes, if you use them, may come in as text: check the box before you bring it in. Each folder or document at the top of the Draft becomes a chapter, and a folder of folders, or a folder called Part One, Part 2 and so on, becomes a part; a title that does not already say Chapter, Part or Prologue is numbered, for example "Chapter 1: Arrival". Or paste the text into Or paste it here. The word count shows under the box. If the Title box is empty, SameGROUND Author fills it from the file's name (for a Scrivener project, from the project's name). If you then choose a different file, the title follows the new file. A title you typed yourself is never changed. Check the title before the next step.
6. Click Bring it in. It worked when the book opens and the line under its text says "Brought in: 118,668 words in 50 chapters." That line stays on screen when the book opens. The Title box and the paste box are emptied, ready for another book.

• Chapter headings on lines of their own, such as "Chapter 1", "Chapter One" or "CHAPTER I", are found and kept.
• A book needs at least 1,000 words and can have up to 500,000. Outside that it is refused, with the figure.
• A book of more than 200,000 words can be brought in and written in, but it cannot be read whole: reading a whole book is limited to 200,000 words. See section 7.
• A very long stretch with no chapter heading and no paragraph break is refused. Add chapter headings and bring it in again.
• A book of more than 180 chapters or sections can be brought in, but it cannot be read whole. Clicking Read the whole book says why, with the figure, and nothing is charged. To read it whole, merge very short sections into the chapters around them, or use fewer chapter headings, and bring it in again.
• If a Word file cannot be read, the page says so. Then save it from Word as Plain Text (.txt) and choose that, or paste the text.
• If a Scrivener project cannot be read, the page says so. Then compile the manuscript in Scrivener to Word (.docx) or Plain Text (.txt) and choose that, or paste the text.
• A voice must be chosen first (section 2), because the book keeps the voice it was brought in with.

Score your own parts against the voice

The chapters you brought in, and any parts you wrote yourself, have no voice-match at first: SameGROUND Author scores only what it writes as it writes it. Score my own parts, in the bar at the top of the book, scores them against the book's voice, one part at a time. It shows only when there are parts of yours with no voice-match.

• Each part counts as a reading of it: half its words, and never fewer than 200. The figure for all of them is on the button, and the line under Scan the voice's result says it too, before you click.
• A part is charged only when its score comes back. If one cannot be scored, it stops there and says nothing was charged for it.
• Your text is not changed. Click Scan the voice afterwards to see the whole book with the new scores.

Clean the whole book

Clean the whole book, in the bar at the top of the book, cleans the whole book towards its voice, part by part, the way Clean my draft cleans one draft. It makes a new book for the result, called after this one with "(cleaned)" at the end. The book you start from is never changed.

1. Click Clean the whole book in the bar. A panel opens just under it, saying what it counts (never more than the book's words) and how long it takes (about 2 minutes for every 1,000 words). The figure is also on the button.
2. Click Clean the whole book in the panel. The new book opens, and each part is cleaned and saved into it as it comes back. A chapter of more than 5,000 words is cleaned in parts of about 4,000. Each chapter's heading is kept exactly as it is; only the text under it is cleaned.
3. Keep the tab open while it runs. Each part is charged as it comes back, as Clean my draft counts. The new book cannot be edited or saved while it is being cleaned: pause first. If the tab closes in the middle of a part, SameGROUND Author carries on with that part. When it is cleaned, it is counted, and saved into the new book unless that part was changed somewhere else in the meantime. Open the new book and click Continue cleaning for the rest.
4. Click Pause at any time. It stops after the part being cleaned now. Pausing is free. To carry on, open the new book (it is in your list as "... (cleaned)"), click Clean the whole book in the bar, then Continue cleaning. It cleans only the parts still as you wrote them.

• A part that does not come back is tried once more, and is not charged. If it fails again, it is left as you wrote it, the next part is cleaned, and the panel says which part to try again with Continue cleaning.
• If the connection drops while a part is being cleaned, it stops: SameGROUND Author may have finished that part and counted it, so it is not tried again on its own. Look at your account page, then Continue cleaning.
• If your words run out, it stops and says so. Continue when you have words again.
• If a part is cleaned and counted but cannot be saved into the new book, it stops and says so. The cleaned part is kept in your browser, and Continue cleaning saves it without counting it again.
• A book needs at least 1,000 words to be cleaned whole. For a shorter piece, use Clean my draft.

Add more to a finished book

1. When every part of a book is written, a box Add more to write shows near the top of the book, under the progress line.
2. Type how many more words you want to write, at least 100, and click Plan more parts. It worked when the line under the book says, for example, "Planned 3,000 more words in 2 parts, starting with: Chapter 51, part 1, after the book so far, which ends at chapter 50. Write the next beat when you are ready."
3. Click Write the next beat as usual. New parts are numbered on from the book's own chapters.

Planning more parts is free. Each part uses words only when it is written.

The text is folded

A brought-in book opens folded, to save scrolling: you see about the first screenful of its text, fading out, then a button Show the whole text (N words). Click it to unfold the rest. Fold the text away folds it again. The text is never folded while you are editing it.

New parts are numbered on from the book

New writing after a brought-in book carries on its chapter numbers. After a book of 50 chapters, the first new part is Chapter 51, and its heading follows the book's own style: "CHAPTER 50" is followed by "CHAPTER 51", "Chapter Fifty" by "Chapter Fifty-One". The line above the book shows where you are, for example "Chapter 51, part 1, after the book brought in, which ends at chapter 50."

If your book ends with "THE END"

New writing goes after the last line of the book. So if the book ends with a line saying THE END, SameGROUND Author asks before the first new part is written (when you click Write the next beat or Auto-draft from here). A box appears at the bottom of the screen:

"Your book ends with "THE END". New writing goes after it. Remove "THE END" first, or keep it?"

• Remove "THE END" (amber): takes that line out of the book, saves it, then writes the next part. Removing it is free.
• Keep it: leaves it where it is and writes the next part after it.
• Not now: closes the question. Nothing is written, removed or charged.

Once you have answered Remove "THE END" or Keep it, it does not ask again about that book while the page is open.

7. Read the whole book

SameGROUND Author reads the whole book once and makes a record of it. The record holds:

• what happens in each chapter, with a line on its voice;
• the characters, with their other names;
• the places;
• the threads, open or resolved;
• the timeline, and how the voice behaves across the book.

The record is kept with the book. The next beat you write, and any chapter you read against the book, use it, so the whole book is not read again. It also fills the record of characters, places and things. This part of the page shows once a book has 1,000 words or more.

1. If you have edited the book, click Save changes first.
2. Read the line under the heading The whole book, for example "Reading the whole book reads all 118,668 words, which count as 5,934 ..." The button shows the figure too.
3. Click Read the whole book once. In the bar at the top of the book.
4. Keep the tab open until it finishes. The book is read in parts of 2 to 3 minutes each, and the line under the heading gives the figure for your book, for example "Reading it takes about 22 minutes: the book is read in 9 parts of 2 to 3 minutes each." The panel with the egg timer says the same. While it reads, that panel counts the parts and the minutes left in bold, and so does the note under the button, for example "Reading the whole book: 4 of 9 parts read, about 12 minutes left. Please keep this page open ..." If you open the book while it is being read, in this tab or another, the same panel shows how many parts are read. A 118,668-word book was read in 5 parts in 11 minutes 30 seconds. It worked when it says "Read on [date]: 118,668 words, 50 chapters, 28 characters, read in 5 parts." and a card appears for each chapter, then the lists of Characters and Threads, and a note on the Voice. Record in the bar at the top jumps to it.

A book of more than 200,000 words

Reading a whole book is limited to 200,000 words (and 180 chapters). A longer book can be brought in and written in, but it cannot be read whole. On such a book, Read the whole book is greyed, and pointing at it says why. The line under the heading says "This book is 230,000 words. Reading a whole book is limited to 200,000 words, so it cannot be read whole. You can still write in it. To read one chapter, paste it into Write & mirror and use Understand or Examine there." (with your book's figure). Nothing is read and nothing is charged. Reading one chapter against the book needs the book's record, so for such a book use Write & mirror instead (section 3).

Reading it again

Once a book has a record, the button says Read the whole book again.

• If you have changed the book since it was read, the line says "The manuscript has changed since it was read; the record describes it as it was then. Read it again to bring the record up to date." Clicking the button reads it again and charges for it.
• If the book has not changed, SameGROUND Author asks first and reads nothing yet. The page says: "This book has not changed since it was read on 12 October 2026, and its record is kept with the project. Reading it again uses N words." (with the date it was read) It offers two buttons: Read it again (N words), which reads it again and charges for it, and Keep the record I have, which is free and leaves the record as it is.

If the book changes after SameGROUND Author asks (you edit and save it), Read it again (N words) goes, because its figure may no longer be right; Read the whole book again then shows the figure now. If the book was changed and saved in another tab or on another device so that reading it now uses a different figure, SameGROUND Author reads nothing, charges nothing and asks you to reload the page, so you see the book as saved and what reading it uses.

If you have written more since the reading, the line says "Written since the reading: N words." and each new chapter's card says "Written since the reading. Read the whole book again to add it to the record." New beats are still written with the record. Read the book again when you want the record to include them.

If the connection drops

On a long reading your connection may drop. The page then says:

"The connection dropped while the book was being read. SameGROUND Author is still reading it, and its record will appear here when it is ready: this page checks every 30 seconds. Do not start another reading."

Do nothing. Leave the tab open. The record appears when it is ready. A button Check for the record also appears beside the heading The whole book: click it to check yourself. A second reading of the same book cannot start while one is running, so you cannot pay twice.

Reading one chapter against the book

Each chapter card in the record has a line "Read this chapter against the book (N words, which count as N words):" and two buttons, Understand and Examine. SameGROUND Author reads that chapter and knows the rest of the book from the record. The result appears in the card. It counts half the chapter's words, and never fewer than 200. For example, a 1,550-word chapter used 775 words. The book must have been read whole first.

8. Characters, places and things

This is the list of people, places and things in your book, each with a name and a description. SameGROUND Author uses it when it writes the next part. Your corrections always win: when the book is read again, the entries you corrected are kept.

On the book's page, below The whole book. Click Characters in the bar at the top of the book to jump there. To start a sequel from an earlier book's record, use A book in a series in the bar at the top of the book (section 13).

The buttons

• Build or refresh reads the whole manuscript and fills the record. It counts half the manuscript's words, and never fewer than 200. For example, a 1,057-word manuscript used 529 words. The line above the list, and the button, give the figure. It worked when it says "Record refreshed from the manuscript."
• For a book of 20,000 words or more, Build or refresh does not read it. The record is filled by Read the whole book instead.
• Load saved shows the record you already have. Free.

Correcting an entry

1. Change the name, the description or the line under them in an entry. A detail listed in the entry has its own Save detail button.
2. Click Save correction under it. It worked when it says "Your correction is saved." inside the entry. Saving a correction is free.
3. SameGROUND Author then offers Re-read the manuscript against this correction in the entry, with what it would use, for example "Re-reading the manuscript against this correction will use 529 words". It never runs unless you click it.

The re-read counts like Build or refresh: half the manuscript's words, never fewer than 200. For a book of 20,000 words or more, there is no re-read button: read the whole book again when you want the record to reflect your correction.

9. Downloads: take your book with you

Your work is yours. You can take a copy at any time. All downloads are free. They are made in your browser from the text on the page; nothing is sent anywhere.

Click Downloads in the bar at the top of the book. A small panel opens just under the bar, with "Take the book with you:" and the three download buttons. Close closes it. Until the book has some text, Downloads is greyed, and pointing at it says "There is nothing in this book yet to download. Free."

• Copy, in the bar itself: copies the whole book, with its title, so you can paste it elsewhere. It says "Copied."
• Word (.docx): a Word document in manuscript form: Times New Roman 12 point, double spaced, the first line of each paragraph indented, each chapter heading on a new page.
• Plain text (.txt): the title, then the whole text.
• Markdown (.md): the title and chapter headings marked as headings.

Each file is named after the book's title (or "My book" if it has none). After a download the panel says "Downloaded. This is the book as saved." If you have unsaved edits, the download includes them, and it says so instead.

In Write & mirror, a draft has its own Copy button, at the top of the draft and again at the bottom.

10. History & records

Click History & records in the menu. Everything here is free to look at.

• Closeness over time: a bar for each voice-match reading, from 0 to 100. A gold bar is the first reading after the voice changed: it was rebuilt from your samples, or a different voice was chosen. Scores either side of it are against different voices, so do not compare across it. This is closeness, not quality or a grade.
• Recent work: what you have run, newest first, with the time (in your own time zone, which is named), the words in the piece and the words charged. Each line names the kind of work, for example "A draft from a brief", "Another take (Punchier)", "Re-voice of marked passages", "Long form: a beat", "Character record: built", "A chapter read against the book", "Guided start: three directions", "Guided start: two outlines compared", "Building your main voice" or "Whole-book reading". Older lines keep their older, more general names, such as "Writing" or "Mirror examination".
• Actions that left no text behind (the directions, a book reading, building your voice) say "No saved text to open."
• A rewrite that came back unchanged counts as a reading, and its line says which it was, for example "Another take (Punchier) that came back unchanged (counted as a reading)", "Re-voice that came back unchanged (counted as a reading)" or "Long form: a beat written again that came back unchanged (counted as a reading)". This browser keeps a note of each one it saw, to name it. Seen from another browser, or after this browser's stored data is cleared, the line says "A take or re-voice that came back unchanged (counted as a reading)".
• Dates are written in full, for example "12 October 2026".
• A rewrite our copy check stopped is not listed: it was free (section 3). After the first three in any 24 hours, such a run counts as a reading and is listed.
• See the draft or notes: shows that draft, or the notes of that reading, again. Free.
• Download the record of how it was made: only shown for a piece where you chose to keep a private record of how it was made (see below).

If a connection drops while something is running, look here before you run it again. The work may have finished and been charged.

See the series on Voice home also brings you here.

A private record of how a piece was made

In Write & mirror, in the right panel, A private record of how the text was made, optional (a folded section) lets you keep such a record, in case you need to show later how a piece was made. Tick Keep a private record of how the text was made, and choose under Who may see this record: Only me, Me and a reviewer, or People within an institution. That choice is written on the record. It does not let anyone else open it: only you, signed in, can. For a text SameGROUND Author checked and revised, the record keeps the rough first draft, what the check found and the revision. After such a piece, Reveal my private record appears there. It asks you to confirm, in a box from your browser, before it shows the record. The record then has Close and clear private record, which only hides it, and Permanently delete private record (amber), which deletes it for good. That one also asks first, in a box from your browser: "Delete this private record of how the text was made, for good? This cannot be undone." All of these are free.

The record you download from History leaves out the rough first draft, and names the version of the method that made the text. It carries a check code that shows the file has not been altered since. It is not a signature, and not a judgement of who wrote the text.

11. Your account, words, plans and cancelling

Opening your Account

Click Account at the right-hand end of the menu, or click the words figure in the grey bar. Your Account opens in a new tab, so your work stays open. If nothing opens, allow pop-ups for this site. On the Account page you can see your plan and your words, change your plan, top up, delete your account and sign out.

How your words work

• On a monthly plan, plan words start again on the 1st of each month. Plan words you have not used by the 1st end then, except on Pro.
• On a yearly plan, you pay for the year on the day you join. Your plan's words come in full that day, and then on the same day of each month. If a month does not have that day, they come on its last day: join on the 31st, and your words come on 30 April. Plan words you have not used by your next date end then, except on Pro. Your Account page gives the date.
• On Pro, unused plan words carry over for up to three months while you stay on Pro.
• On a monthly plan, your first month counts from the day you join. You pay only for the rest of that month, and get the same share of its words. For example, joining Casual with about two thirds of October left cost £8.94, with the same share of the month's words.
• The free trial's words are given once and do not start again. If you choose a plan before they run out, what is left is added to your first month.
• Top-up words never expire.

The plans

On a yearly plan you pay once a year, on the day you join, and your words come in full each month, on the day of the month you joined. The prices on the Author page are the ones that apply when you subscribe.

Topping up

If you run short in a busy month, you can buy more words from your Account page:

• £11.50 adds 10,000 words
• £28.75 adds 25,000 words
• £57.50 adds 50,000 words

Top-up words cost more than plan words (£1.15 per 1,000). If you often need more, a larger plan is better value.

When you run out

If an action needs more words than you have, nothing runs and nothing is charged. A message says so where you pressed the button, with how many words you have left, for example "This needs more words than you have left this month. You have 120 left of 12,400. You can top up, or work with a shorter passage." On the free trial it says "Choose a plan" instead of top up. Open your Account (Account in the menu, or the words figure) to top up or choose a larger plan, or wait for the 1st.

The last piece of work can take you a little past your words. The grey bar then shows "0 words left", never a figure below nothing. That is not an error: nothing more that uses words runs until you top up, change plan or your words come again.

Choosing a plan and the 14-day right to cancel

On your Account page, choose a plan. Payment is taken by Link, Stripe's checkout service, which sells SameGROUND Author to you as our reseller and adds any VAT or sales tax due where you live into the price. Your receipt comes from Link. The Terms say:

• You normally have 14 days from subscribing to cancel and get a refund.
• If you ask SameGround to start supplying SameGROUND Author straight away, and you acknowledge that you lose that right, you lose the right to cancel once supply has begun.

Cancelling

• You can cancel at any time from your Account page. It takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for. Part months are not refunded unless the law requires it or SameGround got something wrong.
• After a subscription ends, your work is kept for six months so you can come back to it, and you are emailed before it is deleted.

Deleting your account

• Click Delete account on your Account page and confirm on screen. You are signed out at once. Any subscription is set to end at the end of the period you have paid for. Your data is erased 30 days later.
• If you sign in again before then, the deletion is cancelled. To keep your subscription, resume it from your Account page before the paid period ends.

The full wording is in the Terms of Service, section 8.

12. What everything costs, in one table

The workspace always shows the figure before you click. These are the rules behind it. "A reading" means: half the words read, and never fewer than 200.

13. A book in a series

If you are writing a sequel, SameGROUND Author can start the new book's record from the earlier one, so you do not have to enter the same characters again.

1. Make sure the earlier book has a record: either it has been read whole (section 7), or its record of characters, places and things has been built with Build or refresh (section 8). Only books with a record can be chosen.
2. Open the new book in Long form and click A book in a series in the bar at the top of the book. A small panel opens just under the bar, headed A book in a series, which says "Writing a sequel or the next book in a series? Choose the earlier book, and Carry over copies its characters, places and open threads here, for you to correct. Free." Under it is This book follows, with a list. Close closes the panel. The button is always in the bar. When none of your other books has been read whole or has a record, it is greyed, pointing at it says "Read an earlier book whole first, then you can carry its characters over. Free.", and the panel says "No earlier book can be chosen yet." with the same reason.
3. Choose the earlier book from the list (it shows the date a book was read whole, for example "(read on 12 October 2026)", or "record built", then its length and when it was last saved, so two books with the same title can be told apart), then click Carry over (it is pale, and does nothing, until you have chosen a book). It asks first, because carried entries cannot be taken out again: the button turns a stronger amber and says "Carry it over for good? Click again", and beside it, also in amber: "Click Carry over again to carry it over. Entries carried over cannot be taken out again." Click it again within about 8 seconds. It worked when, right beside the button, it says for example "Done. This book follows "Book One". 3 entries carried over; 1 was already in this book's record. You can correct them in the record below." The page brings that line into view. The line "This book follows: Book One." stays above the list, and the entries appear in this book's record of characters, places and things.
4. Read the carried entries and correct anything that has changed since the earlier book, with Save correction, as usual.

• It copies the earlier book's characters, places and threads into this book's character record, with any corrections you made in the earlier book. For a book that was not read whole, it copies every entry of its character record.
• It adds only names this book's record does not already have. If every name is there already, it says "Nothing new to carry over: this book's record already has every name."
• It changes nothing in either book's text, and nothing in the earlier book's record. It is a copy, made when you click: later changes to the earlier book are not carried across unless you click Carry over again.
• The next part SameGROUND Author writes for this book uses the carried entries as they stand, with your corrections. They are kept when this book is read whole later.
• It is free.

14. When something goes wrong

A button seems to do nothing

• Look under the button. After half a second a panel with an egg timer should appear there. If it is there, SameGROUND Author is working. Wait, and do not press again.
• Look for a message near the button. It may say what is missing, for example "Set the length of the draft, from 50 to 2,000 words, to see what it will use; then write it." or "Save your changes first, so the book that is read is the one you see."
• Did an amber button change its words? It is asking first. Click it again within 8 seconds.
• Is the box empty? Continue does nothing until there is text in the box.
• Is the button greyed out? Something is still running, such as a beat or an auto-draft. Wait for it to finish, or click Pause after this beat. Write the next beat is also greyed out, and says Project complete, when every beat of the plan is written; Auto-draft from here then says Auto-draft: nothing left to write. If A book in a series, Copy or Downloads is greyed, point at it to see why.
• Some results appear somewhere else. Scan the voice puts its result near the top of the book, under the title. A Done line in the bar at the top says so, with See the result at the top. A re-voice appears below, beside your text, where a draft would.
• Account did not open? It opens in a new tab. Allow pop-ups for this site.

The connection dropped

• The page may say: "The connection dropped before SameGROUND Author could answer. The work may still have finished, and been charged: look in History before you run it again." Open History & records and check before you click again.
• During Read the whole book, leave the tab open and do nothing. See section 7.
• If it says "Your session has expired. Your text is still here and has not been sent.", sign in again in a new tab, then come back to this tab and run it again.

SameGROUND Author is open in more than one window

Use SameGROUND Author in one window or tab at a time. If you open it somewhere else, close the first one. Two windows working on the same book can get in each other's way. If the page says "SameGROUND Author is open in another tab. Close one of them, so the two do not get in each other's way.", close the tab you are not using.

SameGROUND Author does one task for you at a time, wherever you start it. If you start another while one is still running, it says "SameGROUND Author is still working on something else for you, in this window or another one. Wait for it to finish, then try again. Nothing has been charged for this." Wait for the first to finish, then start the next.

You are out of words

Nothing runs and nothing is charged. A message near the button says how many words you have left. Open your Account to top up or change plan, or work with a shorter passage. See section 11.

The page says a free trial has already been used

There is one free trial per email address. Click Choose a plan in that box to open your Account page in a new tab, and choose a plan there.

Your voice samples were refused

Either a sample is too short (each needs at least 500 words, all three at least 2,000), or the three together are more than your plan accepts (6,000, 10,000 or 20,000 words). The line above the buttons warns you about the second before you click. The message names the figures. Nothing is stored and nothing is charged. Change the samples and click Build / update my main voice again.

You cannot find a button

• On a book, use the bar at the top of the screen: Back to My books, Read the whole book, A book in a series, Write the next beat, Copy, Downloads, Scan the voice, and the jump links Text, The whole book, Characters and Record.
• Rest the pointer on a button to see what it does. On a phone, read the small line inside each main button.
• Click the ? in the panel you are in. It opens this guide at the right section. Help in the menu opens the whole guide.
• Use your browser's find (Ctrl + F, or Cmd + F on a Mac) and type the button's name.

Still stuck

Email support@sameground.com. Say what you clicked, what you saw, and the time.