How to look at the novel as a whole: analytics

The “Analytics” section shows what you have written from above: what happens in each scene, where the tension rises and falls, which character turns up where. It helps you find the slack before the final pass. It works with a scene plan alone, but the full picture comes together from accepted scenes.

1. In the novel sections, open “Analytics”. The “Reverse outline” tab opens first: the novel scene by scene, line by line.

2. The facts of a scene are collected the moment it is accepted. If the top of the screen says that not every scene has facts, click Collect missing facts — the assistant goes briefly through the rest.

3. Open the “Tension curve” tab. The flat and low stretches are the places where a reader may grow bored. The “Full screen” button opens the curve across the whole screen, and the player walks through the novel scene by scene.

   

4. The “Presence canvas” tab shows which scenes each character is in. That is how you see who has dropped out of the story for a long stretch.

5. The “Guns on the wall” tab is the promises made to the reader. It is not built by itself: click Gather the threads, and the assistant gathers which guns have fired and which are still hanging by the finish.

6. The “Character paths” and “Panorama” tabs show the novel by its places: where the action runs and how the characters move. They rest on the same scene facts. The panorama takes the pictures of places from the canon: a place without a picture gets a link for drawing one.