Stories and structure

Opening a story takes you to its structure screen: the outline of the whole book as a tree of Parts, Chapters, and Scenes. This is your home base for a story — you build and rearrange its skeleton here, then open individual scenes to write.

The structure screen

At the top you see the story's cover, title, author, running word-count total, and its status. Below that are quick links to edit the story's metadata, open reading mode, and reach the story's notes, frontmatter, and endmatter, plus an Export menu for EPUB, Word, Text, Markdown, or a .dwriter backup.

The screen has tabs:

Structure — the Parts → Chapters → Scenes tree (described below).
Sharing — publishing, beta reading, and live collaboration settings (see the links at the end of this page).
Readability & Tone — rough craft signals computed from your prose (reading ease, sentence rhythm, dialogue balance, filler words, and a pacing strip). See Readability & Tone.
Cast and Places — whole-story visualisations of your characters, points of view, and locations, built from your per-scene tagging. See Cast and Places.

Story status

Every story carries a status: Plan, Draft, Edit, or Done. Click the status pill to cycle to the next one. Status is only a label to help you track where a story is; you can filter your library by it.

Parts

Parts are the optional top level of the tree — use them for a book divided into named sections, or skip them entirely and keep chapters directly under the story.

Add a part with the Add part box.
Rename a part with the pencil (edit) button on its row.
Delete a part with the bin button. The part goes to the Recycle Bin, and its chapters are kept — they move back up to sit directly under the story.
Reorder parts with the up and down arrows, or drag the handle.

Chapters

Chapters hold your scenes. A chapter can live inside a part or directly under the story.

Add a chapter with the Add chapter box, choosing which part it goes in (or none). You can give it chapter notes at the same time.
Rename a chapter, and edit its chapter notes, from the pencil button.
Reassign a chapter to a different part (or to no part) using the Part selector in its edit panel.
Delete a chapter with the bin button; it and its scenes move to the Recycle Bin.
Reorder chapters within their part with the arrows or by dragging.

Scenes

Scenes are where the actual writing lives. Each scene row shows its name, its word count, and its own status pill.

Add a scene with the Add scene box at the bottom of a chapter; you can include a short scene note.
Rename a scene, and edit its scene notes, from the pencil button.
Move a scene to another chapter with the Chapter selector in its edit panel.
Reorder scenes within a chapter with the arrows or by dragging.
Cycle a scene's status (Plan, Draft, Edit, Done) with its status pill.
Delete a scene with the bin button; it moves to the Recycle Bin.

Click a scene's name to open it in the scene editor and start writing.

Reading mode

The Read button opens the whole story as one continuous, distraction-free page — frontmatter, every chapter and scene in order, then endmatter. A chapter picker lets you jump around, and you can cycle the reading font size. It is read-only, so it is a good way to review the flow of the book without the editing chrome.

Sharing this story

The Sharing tab is where you make a story available to other people. Each option has its own guide:

Publishing — put a finished story in the public library.
Beta reading — invite readers to read and comment on a snapshot.
Collaboration — co-write a story with other members in real time.