Organizing Your Story in Novelcrafter
How to organize your project within Novelcrafter.
In Novelcrafter, your writing is organized as Acts, Chapters, and Scenes. Following this structure isn’t required, but they are a useful set of levels to organize your work.
Acts
Acts are flexible containers that help organize larger portions of your work. While traditionally used for story structures (like the three-act or five-act format), acts in Novelcrafter can serve whatever organizational purpose you need:
- A collection of related blog posts under a common theme
- Episodes in a serialized fiction series
- Individual stories in an anthology
- Parts of a textbook
- Course modules for online learning
Don’t need acts? No problem! You can keep everything in a single act, name it “Novel”, and focus on your chapters and scenes.
Chapters
Chapters are the main structural elements your readers will see. Each chapter can contain one or more scenes, and you can easily reorganize them within or between acts as your story evolves.
Chapters can be named (for example, if you have a prologue, or want to name your blog post), and you can enable/disable numeration of a chapter.
Scenes
Scenes are where your actual writing happens. Each scene might represent:
- A single point of view
- A continuous sequence of events or time period
- Action happening in an area/location