Shape

Plan ▸ Shape shows the whole manuscript scene by scene, from the first page on the left to the last on the right. Each scene is as wide as its word count, and every chart shares the same axis, so a column is the same scene in each. Faint lines mark where chapters begin.

• Length: words in each scene. The dashed line is the book's average.
• Point of view: whose scene it is, in each character's colour (set Point of view in the Scene drawer).
• Sentence length: average words per sentence.
• Dialogue: the share of each scene inside quotation marks.
• Vocabulary: how varied the words are, measured in 100-word stretches so short and long scenes compare fairly.

Short sentences and dialogue usually read quickly; long sentences and narration read slowly. A varied vocabulary often goes with description or reflection, a plainer one with action. These describe the book; they don't grade it, and a slow scene may be exactly right.

Tap a chart to choose a scene: it's marked in every chart, with its figures above. Choose Open in Write to go to it.

Worth a look lists the scenes that differ most from the scenes around them: much longer or shorter, with longer or shorter sentences, far more or less dialogue, or a noticeably richer or plainer vocabulary. Scenes with almost no text are listed separately as not written yet.

Export CSV… saves every scene's figures for a spreadsheet.

In Write, the Scene drawer's This scene section shows the open scene's figures beside the book's averages.