Write your first scene

Chapters and scenes

A book in Write is made of chapters, and each chapter is made of one or more scenes. The chapter is what theyour reader sees—the title, the number, the headerheading at the top of the page. Scenes are howfor you work:you: a chapter with three scenes prints as one chapter with a scene break between each, andbut you can move, archiveset aside or rewrite aany one scene without touchingdisturbing the others. If you've always written in one long document, this takes a day or two to get used to, and then you won't want to go back.

StartStarting the first chapter

1. In a new book, click Add the first chapter. It arrives with one empty scene, openalready and ready.open.
2. Click into the page and write.begin. Enter starts a new paragraph;paragraph, and the page shows the real indent, font and line spacing offrom your page setup.setup, so what you see is close to what you'll print.
3. Give the chapter itsa title whenever you're ready, from the … menu beside it in the manuscript list—list (Rename chapter—or). Or leave it numbered.numbered—plenty of books do.

AddAdding more

• Another scene in thisthe chaptersame chapter:: open the chapter's … menu,menu and choose Add a scene. It goes to the end; Move scene up and Move scene down reorder.put it where you want.
• Another chapterchapter:: Add a chapter at the bottom of the manuscript list, or Add a chapter here from a chapter's menu to putslip one in the middle.
• PartsParts:: whenif ayour book hasis them,divided into parts, Edit part and Take out of its part on thea chapterchapter's menu managecontrol which chapterspart sitit undersits which part.under.

Scene breaks take care of themselves

You do notdon't type them. Between two scenes ofin onea chapterchapter, the buildfinished book prints the scene-break ornament from your page setup; in the editoreditor, theeach scenesscene areis separateits pages.own page. If youyou'd wantlike a break insidepartway through a scene, makesplit it into two scenes.

NumberingChapter numbers

Chapters number themselves in order. Move oneorder, and the numbers follow;follow when you move one. Renumber chapters onis there for the menutimes is for when you haveyou've given chapters their own numbers and want them straightened.put straight.

Setting a scene aside

Archive scene takes ita scene out of the book without deleting it—itit. It stays listed under archived, and Restore scene bringsputs it back where it was. Delete scene for good is permanentpermanent, andso it asks you first.