Awesome! Very excited about this 😄

Good news Per, can’t wait to see v3.0. Any ETA on when we will see it? cheers cathy

Ah thanks Jeff, good to know! cathy

Hi Per, so what you're saying is the functionality I need is in v3 so just wait for that? How long are we talking now? A month or more, or less than a month? I agree that having beats and snippets that belong to a different plot sequence is distracting and it's hard to think around them. The functionality you have described sounds great. Can't wait for v3! :) Will it have a manual to teach us how to use it or will we have to work that out for ourselves, given that it's Alpha? Cathy

Hi Per, there is a way which is the scene delimiter generally three *** which novelists use between scenes. This is pretty much standard practice. Novelists insert these between scenes within a chapter. Chapters are recognised by headings formatting. That is how it is done in other writing programs importing from word. cheers cathy

Hi Per, novelists write in scenes initially and organise these into chapters at some point that makes sense to them. We divide scenes up within a chapter by putting in a symbol to indicate a new scene is beginning. Often this is three *** (that’s the default or most common scene divider used). A scene can be a few lines up to 1600 words. Anything bigger would probably get split up in an edit. A scene is generally written in one characters POV in one location and one point in time and a new scene denotes a change to one or more of those. In terms of formats to get it out to word, yes Times Roman or Courier and single, one point five or double spaced options with centered or left aligned chapter headings. Page numbers in the footer centered or right aligned. Name of author and the title of the work in the header, right aligned. Title page should include title, subtitle, authors name cantered in the middle of the page and contact details in the bottom left hand corner. Page breaks between chapters, ideally chapters start one third down the page. Scene breaks within chapters as noted above. This would give the standard manuscript format for submission to a publisher or editor. But could be simplified if that’s too much layout work. The formatting can be done in word or another program designed for it, it’s more about ensuring the information is captured and the difference between a chapter heading, text and scenes can be detected. Does that help? cheers Cathy

Thanks for the reply. Let's hope you can get to it soon. Do you think it will be delivered within the next 3-6 months or longer? It's a showstopper for novelists without it. But Causality is such a wonderful tool for plotting I'd love to promote it to novel writers, however without a way to get the book out of the platform it lacks cred as a tool for novels. cheers Cathy

Importing initially. But both are needed to make the platform useful for writers 😊 if you’re able to provide it as soon as possible it will be great. Basically if I develop a novel in Causality I need to be able to get it out to publish it as an ebook and without DOCX that is impossible, because I can’t load a PDF to a publishing platform and convert it to an ebook. So both are needed 😊

Hi Per, thanks for the prompt reply! Ok that sounds great. :) Regards Cathy

Hi Per, just downloaded Causality and I am so excited! This is exactly what I have been looking for, something that manages multiple story arcs! I love it. Just wanted to know if the character extensions will be in version 3.0 or after that? I am a novelist (though thinking of doing a TV series at some point), so I am particularly keen to see the additional features for fleshing out characters. That said, I can make the current functionality work for what I need I think. Love the relationships tracking feature for characters. One question I couldn't find an answer to, what is the difference between Book and Novel in the app? thanks very excited about the potential of this app. regards Cathy