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If you have ever opened a blank document with a great story in your head, only to get distracted by formatting, folders, notes, research tabs, and a hundred unfinished ideas, Neo is designed to help.
Created by bestselling author Hugh Howey, Neo is free writing software built around a simple goal: give writers a calmer, more organized place to create. Rather than trying to be an all-purpose office program, Neo is aimed at the actual work of writing: developing ideas, shaping a manuscript, organizing chapters, tracking characters and story details, and getting words onto the page.
A Writing Space Built for Writers
Hugh Howey is known worldwide as the author of the Silo series (now on AppleTV), including Wool, a story that began as an independently published work and grew into a major global phenomenon. His success has made him a familiar voice in conversations about creative independence, publishing, and the changing tools available to writers.
With Neo, the focus turns from publishing advice to the writing process itself.
The software is designed to support the many moving pieces behind a book. A novel, memoir, nonfiction guide, or collection of stories is rarely just one long document. It may involve chapter outlines, character histories, timelines, research, scene ideas, revision notes, alternate openings, and details that need to stay consistent from beginning to end.
Neo brings those pieces together in one writing-centered workspace.
More Than a Blank Page
Neo is meant to reduce creative clutter. It gives writers a central place to collect, organize, and return to their work without needing to build a complicated personal system from scratch.
Instead of treating a manuscript as one enormous file, Neo supports the way many writers naturally think: in scenes, chapters, people, places, questions, revisions, and possibilities.
Your Story Deserves a Home
Every writer needs a place for the work. I am going to give this software a try myself as I slowly venture into the publishing world.
Our next chapter can start now.