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Why this comes first The first thing Write asks for is the name you publish under. It might seem like an odd place to start, but there's a good reason: every book and series in Write lives under a pen name, and that name is what gets printed on the title page....

Starting a standalone book In the Library, click New book at the top right. Type the title. If you have more than one pen name, you'll be asked which one; if you've made more than one page setup, you'll be asked that too. Otherwise there's nothing more to fil...

Three parts to the screen It helps to think of the editor as three columns. On the left: your manuscript. The structure of the book, top to bottom—any front matter, then the chapters with their scenes inside, then any back matter. Click a scene to open it. Eve...

What the Library is for The Library is home: every series and book you have, grouped under the pen names you publish them with. The line under the heading keeps count—series, books, words—and the search box finds a series or title by name. If you've set someth...

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 your reader sees—the title, the number, the heading at the top of the page. Scenes are for you: a chapter with three scenes prints as o...

What connecting means Write can work alongside an AI assistant. Once connected, the assistant can do in your books the kinds of things you do—read a chapter, draft or revise a scene, keep notes, look something up in the codex, build a PDF—when you ask it to. I...

The short version A connected AI works as you, in your books, and only when you ask. It can read and write much of what you can, it can't delete anything, and everything it does is saved in the book's history where you can see it and undo it. If that's all you...

Two places you can do it An AI reaches Write through a connection you approved, and you can end that connection from either side. Both work; the first is the quickest. From your Author Tools account Go to account.authortools.net and look for Connected apps. Ev...

The idea A codex is the bible of your world: the characters, places, things, factions, rules, events and maps, each with a page of its own, and each page knowing what is true where and when. Write keeps one per universe, so every series set in that world reads...

Why a book has to belong somewhere A codex lives in a universe, and a book reads the codex through its series: if the series is in the universe, every book in it sees the codex, and every entry can say "this is true in book 3" by name. Until a series is in a u...

Opening the codex From the Library, Manage → Codexes, then Open codex beside the universe. You'll land on a page with a search box in the middle and the entry types down the left—Characters, Places, Items, Factions, Rules, Events, Maps, Other, each with a coun...

The Codex button In the editor's toolbar, beside Notes, there's Codex. Click it and a rail opens on the right with the heading In this scene: every codex entry whose name or alias appears in the scene you have open, the most-mentioned first, with a small ×coun...

Why the codex has calendars Some facts are only true for a while. A captain holds a rank until she's promoted; a city stands until it falls; a character is twelve in one book and forty in the next. To say when a fact applies, the codex needs a way to write dat...

The problem a codex solves In book 1 the ship is called the Intrepid and Tanis is a lieutenant. By book 4 the ship has a new name and Tanis commands it. A spreadsheet gives you one cell per fact and makes you choose. The codex lets a field hold the general ans...

The built-in types are a starting point Every universe begins with Characters, Places, Items, Factions, Rules, Events, Maps and Other, each with a sensible handful of fields. Many worlds need more: ships, spells, species, clues, deities. The codex lets you add...

What Mentions does Every entry page has a Mentions box. It searches your manuscripts for the entry's name and every alias, and lists each scene where one appears—so you can see every page a character walks through, every time a ship is named, every place a cit...

Start small You don't need a codex to keep track of a book. The notes panel in the editor is a perfectly good place for a character sheet, a map of the town, a list of rules you've made up—and notes have two things that make them a small codex of their own. Ta...

What this is for Characters text each other, and a page of "Where are you?" she typed gets old fast. Write can set an exchange the way readers see it on their own phones—bubbles, yours on the right and theirs on the left—and print it that way in the paperback ...