Build Your Story.
No matter how big your project, Papyrus Author’s tools keep you in control of your evolving work.
The Navigator: Reach your Destination
The Navigator is a live overview of your book’s story sequence. Like a table of contents, but much, much better.
While writing, you can instantly look up where you are and see what happens next. You can also make comments, access background information, and track the chronology of your story.
Moving, creating, or deleting chapters and scenes in the Navigator will automatically make those changes within your manuscript.
Scenes are defined passages of plot, events are important points of time within your story. These elements serve to give your story visible structure for you, without being disclosed to the reader.
Of course, you can configure the Navigator’s display to your heart’s content. Use highlighting, colors, and text styling to make it your own. Add status icons to help keep track of moods (such as “romantic” or “violent”) or status updates (“unfinished” or “edited”).
Chapters with scenes and characters.
Scenes and events show relevant parts of your story.
All information has its place: You can also store notes for chapters, make comments and keep background information. A glance into the Navigator in combination with the Character Database will even tell you where (and how much) your book’s characters play a part.
The chronological sequence of your story is tracked as precisely as you wish. Build the Chronology in the Papyrus Timeline and then notice the individual times displayed in the Navigator.
As always, you can choose your preferred view. You can switch everything on and off individually, until your Navigator is optimally configured for your needs.
The Navigator and your text directly influence each other. You can edit the structure of your book on the fly. Moving, creating or deleting chapters and scenes within the Navigator will automatically result in the corresponding style and format changes in your text.
The Papyrus Author Navigator presents your book in a clear overview–alongside your text.
The Organizer: Your Book’s Command Center.
The Organizer goes even deeper. This powerful tool doesn’t just display the detailed framework of your story. It also puts complete control in your hands, at every step of the way.
Even the most epic plot is laid out clearly: plot and timeline threads, chapter abstracts, frequency of character appearances, chapter word counts, and much more. Is the first act of your story too long or too short? Is the midpoint falling nowhere near the middle? Get major insights at a glance.
How a book looks in the Organizer.
Even better, the Organizer lets you reshape your story while you have the complete overview. Move chapters, scenes and events or add new ones and directly see how your story changes. Generate Timeline threads and assign chapters. You can create characters and plan their roles in future scenes right here as well.
Text statistics show you the volume of text, words per chapter, etc. This way you can check whether the dramaturgically important points of your story–introduction, plot twists, ending, etc.- are in the right place.
But “view” isn’t everything: The Organizer lets you plan and reshape your story. Create new scenes or delete them, move them around. Papyrus takes care of moving the corresponding parts of your text in your document. You’ll just have to write the content.
Move scenes and chapters in the Organizer.
You can also create new Timeline threads in the Organizer and assign your chapters appropriately. You can even create new characters from here and plan their part in future scenes.
Threads in the Organizer
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