Books, chapters, scenes, drafts

A book holds chapters. A chapter holds drafts. A draft holds scenes. You write in scenes.

Chapters#

The sidebar on the left lists every chapter, with its word count. Drag a chapter to move it. The menu on a chapter row lets you rename it, export it on its own, or delete it.

The number beside a chapter is a Roman numeral. A chapter can be left out of the numbering from its own header.

Drafts#

Every chapter starts with one draft, called Draft 1. Add another when you want to rewrite a chapter without losing what is there. Only one draft is active at a time. The active draft is what the word count, the export, and the Library all read.

Deleting a draft deletes its scenes. Deleting the last draft is not allowed.

Scenes#

A scene is one run of prose. Hover a scene to see its controls:

• Subtitle and POV are short labels for you, not for the reader.
• Summary and notes opens a panel with the scene’s summary and its notes.
• The menu moves, duplicates, or deletes the scene, and opens its history.

Type /scene in the editor to split a scene at the cursor.

History#

FoxQuill saves a copy of a scene whenever it changes by more than fifty words. The scene menu’s History shows those copies with the date and the word count. Restoring one keeps the current version as a copy too, so nothing is lost either way.

Images#

Type /image to put a picture in the text. A chapter can also have one image at the top of its page.