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What this is for Between two scenes in a chapter the book prints a scene break. Out of the box that's three spaced asterisks, which is perfectly respectable. Many authors would rather have a small drawing there—a flourish, a sprig, a star—and this page is how ...

What this is for A chapter's opening page can carry pictures: a glyph or banner over the title, a line between the title and the header rows, a flourish under the whole header before the prose begins, a background behind the first page, or a full-page plate fa...

What this is for The top of every chapter—how its number reads, what word goes before it, whether the title sits beside the number or under it, and the small rows beneath the title (a date, a place, whose point of view)—is set once for the whole book, in Chapt...

What this is for When an AI reads or writes a scene through Write's connector, it doesn't see buttons and menus; it sees the scene as plain text with a few light marks for the things a page can do—italics, a scene break, a centred line, a picture, a text-messa...

If you've already written some (or all) of a book somewhere else, you don't have to retype it or paste it in a scene at a time. Write can read the whole file, split it into chapters and scenes for you, and show you what it found before anything is saved. What ...

Your books are saved as you write, and Write keeps them safe on its side. A backup is something extra: a copy of your own, on your own computer, that you can open without Write and restore from if you ever need to. It's worth making one now and then—before a b...

This page is for bringing a book back from a backup you made in Write—to undo a revision that went wrong, to recover something you deleted, or to move a book into another Author Tools account. Write always reads the backup first and tells you what's in it; not...

Before Write makes your files, it looks the book over and tells you anything worth knowing—an unaccepted change, a missing copyright page, a picture that will print fuzzy. This page is about reading that list, and about proofs: quick looks at your pages while ...

This page walks through making the interior file for a paperback or hardcover—the PDF you upload to KDP, IngramSpark or a local printer. Write sets every page at your trim size with your fonts built in, so the file is ready to go as it is. Make the PDF Open t...

This page walks through making your ebook: an EPUB file you can upload to Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play or a distributor like Draft2Digital. One file works for all of them. Before you start: the book's details An ebook carries information ab...

A paperback, a hardcover and a large-print edition are the same book in different clothes: a different trim size, perhaps a different font size, wider margins. You don't need a copy of the book for each. You keep one manuscript and a page setup for each editio...

Front matter is everything before chapter one—the title page, the copyright page, a dedication, the contents. Back matter is everything after the last chapter—acknowledgments, an afterword, your author bio, a list of your other books. This page is about adding...

Most front and back matter belongs in every edition of a book. Now and then, though, a page makes sense in print but not on a screen, or the other way round. Each section has two boxes for exactly this, so you can keep a print-only version and an ebook-only ve...

Some pages are the same in every book of a series: your author bio, a note on the reading order, a "Join my newsletter" page at the back. Rather than keep a copy in each book and update them all by hand, you can write the section once on the series, and every ...

Everything about how your book looks on the page—its size, margins, fonts, how chapters open—lives in one place: the page setup. This page shows you around it. The pages after this one go through each part in turn. Open it Open a book and choose Page setup fro...

The trim size is how big your printed book is; the margins are the white space around the words. This page helps you pick both. You'll find them on the Layout tab of Page setup (in the Book menu). Screenshot: the Trim size and Margins cards on the Layout tab,...

How big the type is and how far apart the lines are decide, more than anything else, how comfortable your book is to read—and how many pages it runs to. This page covers those, and the few switches that shape a paragraph. They're on the Layout tab of Page setu...

Fonts give a book its voice before anyone reads a word. This page explains how Write thinks about them—three main faces, with everything else following one of them—and how to change them. It's all on the Fonts tab of Page setup (in the Book menu). The quickest...