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Write panel

Chapter editor, AI assistant, scene breaks.

Write overview

Write is where the book actually gets written. The editor stays out of your way: clean serif text on a quiet background, autosave running so you can stop thinking about saving, and a sepia mode for long evening sessions.

Every change is versioned at the chapter level, so undo extends across sessions. Drop in a paragraph today, rewrite it tomorrow, and yesterday's version is still recoverable from the chapter history.

On Loom and Tapestry, an AI assistant sits beside the page with full context of your Plan studio. Ask it for a rewrite, a continuation, or a sanity check on a scene, and it answers using the characters, beats, and research you already built. On Thread and Spool the page is yours alone, no model in the loop.

AI assistant

The Write assistant is a Loom-tier feature. It sits in the right rail with full read access to your Plan studio (outline, characters, world, beats, research) and the chapter summaries. It does not write into the page until you ask.

Typical prompts: "Draft the next scene from Mira's POV, ending on a beat where the door opens." "Rewrite this paragraph in shorter sentences." "Show this character entering, don't tell." The assistant returns suggestions in the right rail; you accept into the page with one click, or copy-paste a piece you like.

Voice settings live on the character sheets, not in the assistant, so a draft for Mira's POV automatically respects her voice profile.

Search and replace

⌘F (or Ctrl-F) opens find. ⌘⇧F opens find-and-replace. Both scope to the current chapter by default; use the toggle to broaden to the whole manuscript.

Pattern-matching mode (also called regex, a way of searching for patterns rather than fixed strings) is supported (⌘E to toggle). Helpful for things like "rename Cassandra to Cass everywhere except in dialogue tags", using a negative lookbehind, previewing matches in the sidebar, then committing.

Scene breaks and images

Type three asterisks on a blank line, then return, Write inserts a scene break using the current Design preset's ornament. The ornament you see in the editor matches what will print, so you can judge spacing in context.

To insert an inline image, drag it onto the page or paste from the clipboard. Pulled images live in the project's Media gallery automatically. Sizing is by ratio: type the size after dropping (full, half, quarter) and the editor handles the rest.

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