Structuring Your Manuscript
Build your manuscript's skeleton in Dabble: books, parts, chapters, and scenes, plus splitting, merging, reordering, and icons.
Every book has a skeleton. Books, parts, chapters, scenes.
Yours won’t hold still. The chapter that ran long wants to be two. Scene fourteen belongs back in act one. The prologue you swore you’d never write shows up anyway.
That’s the job. This is the toolkit for it: build the shape of your book, split it, merge it, drag it into a new order, and give each piece an icon so you can find it at a glance.
Guides in this topic
- Add books, chapters, and scenesBuild your manuscript by adding books, chapters, and scenes in Dabble, edit a book's details later in Book Settings, and duplicate any piece of your structure.
- Organize your manuscript with PartsGroup your chapters into Parts to divide a book into acts, volumes, or sections, and keep a long manuscript easy to navigate.
- Add a prologue or epilogueAdd a prologue, epilogue, or other front and back matter to your book using an unnumbered Section in Dabble.
- Split and merge scenes and chaptersSplit a scene or chapter at the cursor, or merge two adjacent scenes back together, right inside the manuscript editor.
- Reorder with drag and dropReorder books, parts, chapters, sections, and scenes in your Dabble manuscript by dragging them in the sidebar.
- Set an item's iconAdd an icon overlay to a scene, chapter, or any item in your left navigation to organize your project at a glance.
- Filter a project by bookWriting a series in one Dabble project? Filter the view to a single book so only its documents show, and assign documents to a book.