Segments

In the project sidebar, choose Create Segment. Change its title to Alasdair - Chapter II (we don't have to follow any specific order), then add this excerpt:

Alasdair followed the descending road to the south that connected the empyreal court and the market streets. Common folk busied themselves with the simplicities of peaceful life as they emerged from open shops and market stalls.

His concept is his character profile and this segment is narration. You can keep both open side by side while writing, by opening a new tab and dragging them to the side.

Up to you. It's made flexible for a reason. Sometimes I create segments as chapters, other times they are just specific scenes.

You can split a longer segment later.

Segments can live directly in the project or inside folders. For a novel, you might group chapters by viewpoint character. A short story might need only three segments and no folders at all. Or you might wanna group them on acts or in regions. Really up to you and your story.

Know you need a confrontation but haven't written it yet? Create a segment called Confrontation and leave its document empty. It gives the scene a place in your outline, ready to write when you get there. You can also already mention the segment in other segments or concepts.

To keep an alternate opening out of project totals, open its sidebar actions and exclude it from word count. It stays saved and editable. Include it again when you want it to count.

You can exclude a whole folder too. Everything inside stays excluded until you include the folder again or move the segment out.

There are other ways to keep branching drafts of a segment. We'll explore those, and how to save major revisions, in Versions.

Tip ☝️🤓 Exclusion affects project totals and activity used for project goals. Your current writing session still records words added and removed in excluded segments.

The exclusion controls are independent:

For example, Alternate opening can stay visible in the outline, contribute nothing to the total, and be left out of the manuscript. None of these choices deletes it.