Your trial has started
Welcome to Calamus.
Your 14-day trial is ready. Here is what happens next, what to do in your first session, and the one thing the trial does not include.
1. Open the email we just sent
It carries the link that sets your password and opens Calamus. The trial starts when you use it, not when you filled in the form, so nothing is running down while the message sits there. If it has not arrived in a few minutes, check your spam folder.
2. Make a pen name, then a book
Calamus files everything under a pen name, so make one first, even if you only ever use one. Then create a book. If you already have a manuscript, you can import DOCX, RTF, Markdown or TXT rather than starting from a blank page.
3. Write one real scene
An hour on a chapter you actually care about tells you more than a week of clicking around. Use the Binder to hold the structure, and try Focus Mode and Typewriter Mode while you write to see which suits you.
4. Put something in the Codex
Add a character and a location, then tag their names in your prose. That is the part of Calamus that pays off by book three, and it is the hardest thing to judge without trying it.
The trial runs in your browser on any computer, and it covers the whole writing side: the Binder, the Corkboard, the Outliner, Snapshots, the Codex and every appearance setting. Compile, which turns a manuscript into a finished EPUB or print PDF, belongs to the full version, so the trial writes but does not publish. Your files download throughout, so nothing you write is trapped here.
Nothing renews and no card is held. When the 14 days are up the trial simply stops, and what you wrote is still yours to export.
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