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title: Create or Edit a Chapter
category: Chapters
tags: chapters, scenes, pacing, revision
contextKey: chapters.edit
micro: Shape a chapter as a reader-facing movement inside a book.
quickTitle: What belongs in a Chapter?
quickSummary: Use a Chapter to group scenes into a readable movement with clear pacing, rhythm and purpose.
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# Overview

Chapters organise scenes into reader-facing structure. A chapter can group related scenes, hold a viewpoint movement, create a pacing beat or mark a turn in the book's rhythm.

# When Should I Use This?

Use this page when creating a new chapter, adjusting chapter order, or updating the summary and revision status for an existing chapter.

# How To Use It

Set the chapter number, add a working title, choose revision status and write a summary that explains what the chapter does for the book.

# Example

A chapter summary might be: "Maggie enters the hotel mystery and receives the first impossible clue."

# Writer Tip

Do not treat chapters as fixed too early. During revision, chapter boundaries often move as scene rhythm becomes clearer.

# Common Mistakes

- Using chapter summaries as full scene-by-scene recaps.
- Keeping a chapter intact after it has split into two different movements.
- Ignoring revision status when deciding what still needs work.

# Related Guides

- [Chapters](/Help/Article/chapters.overview)
- [Scenes](/Help/Article/scenes.overview)
- [Books](/Help/Article/books.overview)
