Feature 09
Writing and revising are two different jobs. In “Revise” mode the second gets tools of its own, one click at the top of the editor switches.
When revising, the chapter list steps aside: you pick the chapter above the text and page back and forth. The right-hand panel gets wider and offers comments, markings, chapter log, Follow a character, error catalog, style sheet, repetitions, compendium and notes.
With colored markings you flag passages by categories such as logic, style or cut, the same ones as for comments. The “Markings” list shows every spot by chapter, one click jumps there. You set markings in both modes; they are a working tool and stay out of every export. Comments, mentions and markings can be shown or hidden in the text at any time.
“Follow a character” highlights every spot where a character, place or other compendium entry appears, shows the count per chapter and jumps from spot to spot, across chapter boundaries too. Chapters that the chapter log says are told from their point of view are marked, even where their name never comes up, as with a first-person narrator.
The error catalog checks the whole manuscript for double spaces, spaces before punctuation, missing spaces after commas and double full stops, and fixes them in one click. Repeated words and straight quotation marks are shown as hints. On top come a checklist of typical points to check, which you can extend, and error kinds such as point of view, tense or continuity, which you take over as categories.
In the chapter log you note for each chapter what happens, whose point of view it is told from, which characters appear, where it is set, what is different at the end and which questions stay open. Suggestions come from the compendium entries named in the chapter. You save the overview of all chapters as Word or PDF. The style sheet collects your decisions on narration, spellings, names, numbers and typography, optionally as a template for other projects, and is saved as a PDF, for example for your editor.
In detail
Select text, click “Add marking” in the toolbar and pick a category. The passage gets a colored frame. If a passage is marked already, you change its category here or remove the marking. This works in both modes.
In the Writing Academy: How to Revise a Manuscript: The Complete Guide
Every marking in the manuscript by chapter, with category and the quoted passage. The filter shows a single category, for example everything that should be cut, and one click jumps to the spot.
Mentions, markings and comments can each be hidden in the text when you want to read it without them. The other way round, formatting marks show what is otherwise invisible: spaces, paragraph ends and line breaks, for example to find double spaces. The setting applies to both modes, and Focus Mode hides everything.
Pick a character, place or other compendium entry: every mention is highlighted, the count per chapter appears on the right, and back and next jump across the whole manuscript. In one pass you check whether a character stays consistent or goes missing for long.
In the Writing Academy: How to Revise a Manuscript: The Complete Guide · Point of View in Fiction
Double spaces, spaces before punctuation, missing spaces after commas and two full stops in a row, searched across the whole manuscript. Every finding shows a text excerpt, and you fix them per chapter or all at once. Repeated words and straight quotation marks appear as hints.
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Ten typical points to check when revising, from point of view to punctuation, to tick off. You add your own points, remove built-in ones, and the ticks apply per project.
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Point of view, tense, continuity, repetition, spelling and punctuation: whatever you take over becomes a category for comments and markings, with its own color.
In the Writing Academy: Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
For each chapter you note what happens, whose point of view it is told from, which characters appear, where it is set, what is different at the end and which questions stay open. Suggestions come from the compendium entries named in the chapter, along with the chapter’s open comments and markings.
In the Writing Academy: How to Self-Edit Your Novel
All chapter logs as a table, one chapter per row. Here you see whether two chapters do the same job or a storyline disappears. You save the overview as Word or PDF.
In the Writing Academy: How to Revise a Manuscript: The Complete Guide
Your decisions for the whole book: narration, spellings, names and terms, numbers and dates, punctuation and typography. While revising you keep them in view next to the text, and as a PDF you pass them to your editor.
In the Writing Academy: How to Self-Edit Your Novel
Add sections and rows freely, each with a term or rule and the decision. The default template gives examples, and you save your own style sheets as templates for other projects.
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