WORKING WITH SCENES

Set up a scene

1 Click Create Scene within the chapter you wish to place it in. Give your scene a suitable title and click Save. It appears under Scenes with the usual embellishments: title, word count and status icon. Click the scene to open its main page, followed by Get Started to start typing out the prose that will make up your novel. When finished, click Save followed by Back

Add tags

2 If you want to make the most of your previous research, click the Tags button on a scene’s main page to label each scene and inform better analytics. The first lets you record who’s narrating the scene, whether first, second or third-person. Other tags link to your characters, locations, objects and narrative strands, plus you can assign a time and date to the scene.

Make multiple revisions

3 Not sure how a scene will progress from its current point? Look for the Revision drop-down menu on the main Scene page – click this and choose Create A New Revision. Click OK to use your current revision as a starting point for this version or Cancel to start from a blank canvas. You can now develop alternative storylines, and switch between (and delete) revisions as required.

Rearrange scenes

4 Another benefit of working with multiple scenes is that you can move them around. A simple reordering of scenes within chapters is done through drag and drop on the main Chapter page – just click, drag and drop a scene into its new desired place. Moving a scene to another chapter is done via the More button on the Scene’s own page but is a Supporters Edition-only feature.