A book, from rough draft to reading edition.
Follow Morgan Vale through a revision of The Lantern Coast. These demo Projects show how the writing, its reference material, and the decisions around it fit together.
Choose a writing workflow.
Follow a character arc, build a sourced argument, or revise a screenplay sequence.
- Novelists: follow a character arc →
- Nonfiction: work from evidence →
- Screenwriters: revise a sequence →
Open the part you want to work on.
The Lantern Coast holds several Books. Today, Morgan is revising The Missing Harbor. Working Scope brings that Book into view while the rest of the Series stays in the same Manuscript.
A Chapter or Scene can be just enough for the next pass. Widen the scope when you need the surrounding story again.
Working Scope in the Guide
Follow the clue back to the scene.
Mara notices a ledger being hidden. That small moment has to carry a promise the story pays off much later.
An Anchor on Mara’s investigation Timeline takes Morgan from a clue in the plan to the exact passage carrying it, with the note about what the reader should notice still beside the words. Pin the Timeline to read that investigation end to end.
Timelines and Anchors in the Guide
Keep the character beside the writing.
Was Mara carrying a chart case or a notebook? Her Sheet keeps the answer close, along with the nicknames used by people who know her.
The same library holds Places, Items, and Concepts. Notes can stay brief: the facts you need during revision, without hunting through another file.
Sheets in the Guide
Try the opening another way.
A quieter opening might reveal more than a dramatic one. Morgan captures an alternative Draft and tries it without overwriting the existing version.
Whether the experiment rewrites one paragraph or a whole Book, Morgan can switch Drafts in place, recognize each version by its color, and compare their wording in Markup before choosing what to merge.
A named Snapshot before a large rewrite gives Morgan an earlier reading to return to.
Drafts and merging in the Guide
Give an Editor a version to review.
Morgan sends a Draft for review. The Editor works in a separate review copy, suggests wording, and leaves comments before submitting it back.
The Author reads the returned Draft and decides which changes belong in the Book. Cloud enables sharing; invited Readers and Editors take part without a paid plan of their own.
The review workflow in the Guide
Make the Book look like itself.
The Missing Harbor gets a title page and a lantern illustration. Morgan can shape its Chapter openings and choose matching Book Decorations while the writing is still in progress.
Each Book keeps its own matter pages and page numbering. A second volume can have a different opening treatment without redesigning the first.
Book design in the Guide
Let someone read the result.
A reading edition gives the story a page of its own. Readers can move by Chapter, choose an appearance, and settle into the words.
Publish a whole draft or only the passages you choose, on either plan and during the evaluation too, with no sync to wait for. For a submission or a copy to keep, export covers Word, PDF, and EPUB; while you evaluate, the PDF and EPUB come marked as proofs. You choose the destination.
Publishing and reading in the Guide
Keep writing when the connection goes.
When the connection drops, Morgan keeps writing at the caret in the middle of a Chapter. The status panel confirms that each change is saved on this device and waits there until the connection returns.
Open a Project on the device before you need it offline. Cloud sync resumes when the connection returns; independent exports and a backup folder give you copies to keep outside the browser.
Local saves and offline writing in the Guide
Bring your own work to the page.
Start a Project or import a Manuscript you already have. The Guide is there when you need the steps for a particular task.