Deleting Acts, Chapters, and Scenes
Learn how to delete acts, chapters, and scenes in the plan interface.
In Novelcrafter, you can only delete empty items (chapters/acts). To preserve your work, scenes are always archived, so that you can later recover the work.
To archive a scene
To archive a scene, click on the scene action menu (three vertical dots), and select Archive Scene .
Find out more sbout recovering archived scenes here.
If there is no text in the summary or scene, then instead Delete Scene will appear.
To delete a chapter
If a chapter has a scene with content in it, then it cannot be deleted - you need to first archive the composite scenes (see above).
Once you have an “empty” chapter, you can then delete the scene via the actions menu.
To delete an act
Likewise, if there chapters with content (i.e. with populated scenes) within an act, you cannot delete the act.
Once the populated scenes are archived, clicking on the act action menu will show the option to delete the act. In the image below, both chapters/scenes are empty, with no text or summary, hence we can delete the act.
