Chapters, Parts & manuscript order
Organize the book without confusing reading order, story time, or reference material.
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Manage chapters
- Choose the correct book, then use New chapter beside Chapters in the sidebar, or open an existing chapter there.
- Give the chapter a meaningful title in its heading. Its More menu (…, or right-click) offers Rename… and Delete chapter…. Drag chapters into the order the reader should encounter them.
- Use the status menu beside the chapter’s heading—or in the status strip in Manuscript view—to mark it Stub, Draft, Revised, or Final. Status is not a quality check performed by the app.
- A chapter shown as Not compiled, such as reference material from an import, stays in the World without becoming part of the exported book.
Group chapters into Parts
A Part groups chapters; it does not hold prose. Use New part beside Chapters in the sidebar to name the group, nest it inside another Part, position it, or assign existing chapters from the selected book. Edit Part on its row changes those choices later.
Assigning a chapter to a Part does not itself change manuscript reading order. Removing a Part keeps its chapters and promotes nested Parts rather than deleting the writing. Use the structural Undo feedback if you make the wrong organizational change.
Reading order is not story time
Manuscript order is the sequence of the book. A timeline position records when a chapter happens inside the story. You can keep a flashback late in the manuscript while dating it earlier in the story.
Page counts are layout estimates. Each chapter starts a new page, so two short chapters can occupy two pages even when their combined word count is small.