Writing and editor
This is about writing itself: creating books, chapters and scenes, working in the editor, linking characters in the text, comparing versions and continuing offline.
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Shelf: project overview
The shelf shows all your projects as cards; each project keeps its data separate.
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Book and chapter management
A project contains books, and a book contains chapters; here you create and arrange both.
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Chapter editor
You write your text in the chapter editor; Illumentis saves automatically and shows the save status.
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Scenes and scene metadata
Scenes come from scene dividers in the text; you maintain their metadata in the “Edit scene” dialog.
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Book preview
The book preview shows the saved chapter text as a plain reading view, without tools.
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Chapter questionnaire for beta readers
With a chapter questionnaire you collect targeted feedback from beta readers.
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Daily prompt
The daily prompt gives you a short writing prompt every day, separate from your manuscript.
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Editor layout and context bar
The editor has three zones: tool panel on the left, writing surface in the middle, context panel on the right.
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Margin notes, comments and change suggestions
Margin notes, comments and suggestions live in the context panel; nothing changes the text without your confirmation.
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Mentions (@-mentions)
With “@” you link characters, locations and more directly in the text, without interrupting your writing flow.
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Offline mode and sync
Illumentis saves your text locally in the browser and syncs it as soon as the connection is back.
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Publisher submission and publication metadata
The page collects metadata, blurb, synopsis and content warnings as working material for your submission.
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Revision X-ray and scene ECG
The revision X-ray shows which scenes have a goal and conflict recorded, and the scene ECG shows the pace.
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Sandbox branch chapters
The branch editor edits a copy of a chapter without changing the canon text.
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Search and replace
Search and replace changes a term across all chapters of a project, with a preview and undo.
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Structure templates
A structure template lays a narrative structure over the chapters of your book as a guide.
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Version history and conflict resolution
The version history keeps earlier versions of a chapter; a conflict dialog prevents silent overwriting.
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Writing assistant and writing aids
The writing aids check or display your text differently; they only suggest and write nothing themselves.
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Writing statistics
The writing statistics show word count, streak, pace and forecast for a book and help with goal planning.