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Writing and book structure

In the app: Writing

What a book is made of

  • Part — a large heading that groups the chapters after it (“Part One”). It can have no text of its own.
  • Chapter — a container for scenes.
  • Scene — the unit of text. You write it, reorder it, and give it a status, a POV and a world time.
  • Front or back matter page — cover, title page, contents and so on.

A chapter with a single scene of the same name is shown as one row in the navigator.

  • Clicking a chapter or part collapses and expands it; double-click to rename.
  • The collapse button at the top of the panel collapses or expands all chapters at once.
  • To the right of a scene is its status dot; a speech bubble means open comments.
  • Hovering a row reveals quick buttons: + and the … menu.

Editor

  • The scene title sits above the text and can be edited right there.
  • The text supports Markdown: *italic*, **bold**, > quote, ## subheading. Font, size and background are changed with the Aa button — see Text and fonts.
  • The Text / Split / Preview switch shows text only, text next to a preview, or the preview only.
  • The arrows at the top move to the previous and next scene.
  • At the bottom: scene word count, word goal and the total length of the book.

Scene properties (right panel)

Chapter title, status, point of view (POV), word goal, world time and its precision, summary, the main change in the scene, characters and locations mentioned, dependencies and comments.