Novelcrafter

Your First Writing Session

A handy guide to your first time writing in Novelcrafter.

1 min read Last updated Jul 18, 2025

Start writing

When you create your first novel, you are taken to a blank Plan interface. To begin writing prose, all you need to do is:

  1. Go to the Write interface

    Text selection interface

  2. Click Add Your First Scene if you want to start writing prose. If you are in the brainstorming phase, you may wish to start by clicking Create a Snippet to record all your notes.

    Text selection interface

  3. Start writing!

Formatting Bar

There is no formatting toolbar in the main interface. This is intentional, so you can focus on writing. To access formatting, tools and undo/redo, select a passage of text, and a bubble menu will appear.

Text selection interface

Manuscript Navigation

To navigate between acts, chapters, scenes, and snippets, you can either use the navigation timeline (1), or select the act/chapter/scene/snippet from the dropdown menu at the top of the interface (2).

Navigation between chapters in the write mode