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Characters & Places

A sheet for everyone and everywhere in your story, kept alongside the manuscript but never printed in it.

Adding and removing

  • Click the + next to Characters or Places in the Navigator. Click a name to open its sheet.
  • Right-click → Move to Trash removes a sheet; it can be restored from Trash.
  • Sheets save themselves a moment after you stop typing.
  • The names of your characters and places are never marked as spelling mistakes.

Character sheets

At the top: a portrait (click to choose an image; right-click to view it full size or remove it), the name, Character Type (Protagonist, Antagonist, Supporting, Minor, Extra / Walk-on) and Alignment (Good, Neutral, Evil).

TabFields
IdentityName, Age
PhysicalPhysical Description
PsychologyPersonality, Strengths, Fears
NarrativeBackstory, Goals, Arc, Flaw, Wound
VoiceSpeech Patterns
NotesNotes, and an Images gallery (Add Image)

Place sheets

At the top: an image, the name and a type: City, Building, Region, Country, Natural, Fictional or Other.

TabFields
OverviewName, Description, Significance to Story
WorldGeography, Climate, Culture
HistoryHistory
NotesNotes, and an Images gallery

Keeping a sheet in view

Open a character or place in Split View to see it beside the scene you're writing, and edit it there too. Navigate → Jump to Characters and Jump to Places take you straight to the lists.

Images are stored inside your project file, like everything else.

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