Insert New Scene Before Current Scene
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Lemon Peafowl
Current Challenge: When writing a chapter that includes lots of scenes, I frequently encounter the need to insert a new scene before the one I'm currently editing. The existing process is cumbersome; it requires me to navigate to the end of the chapter to add a new scene and then drag the empty scene back up to the desired location.
Proposed Solution:
To streamline this process, I suggest implementing one of the following enhancements:
A) Scene Action Menu Option: Integrate an option into the scene action menu to "Add New Scene Before This". This would allow for the immediate insertion of a new scene directly before the current one.
B) In-line "+ Scene" Button: Place a "+ Scene" button between existing scenes. Clicking this button would add a new scene at that specific location.
Note: This request is also applicable to creating New Chapters when in "Write" mode. There is a need to be able to create a new Chapter without having to scroll to the end of an Act in the manuscript, or without having to go to Plan mode to insert a new Chapter before the current one.
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Gunmetal Locust
This is the absolute most needed feature in Novelcrafter. Something similar is exactly why so many authors use Scrivener, for the ease of being able to move things around. My sci-fi thriller novels often have more than 60 chapters and trying to manage them on the "plan" screen is terrible. I didn't think I would outgrow Novelcrafter, but at this point I'm looking into other options.
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Heliotrope Mole
+1 on this. In my case, I often find after AI has written something that I want to separate it into two scenes. To do this, I have to select-drag the entire block of text, Cut + Paste into a new scene. If I could just /splitscene directly at the point where I want it to split, that would be convenient.
This same process can be used to insert scene at beginning or end, just by /scplitscene directly at the top or bottom.
The difficult part is what to do when you are in scene view rather than chapter view. Inserting a scene may look like nothing happened when you can't directly see the next scene right underneath.
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Yellowwood Jay
why is this so hard? We should be able to put a chapter anywhwere we need too. THis could be on the action side but the probelm is that if you just create your own Chapter you cant have the scene summary. This is the very reason I hesitated to add this. I used Word and never had a problem at all. Now my Novelcrafter isn't even working correctly. I can't copy and paste it. It sends me straight to what looks like a Clipboard. And when you go back you have to start over from the jump. Too much!
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Olive Cat
Please add a feature where you can insert a new chapter between existing chapters directly in the story. It is time-consuming (and difficult) to have to move a new chapter from the very end to - sometimes - almost the beginning of the story.
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Xanadu Bear
Agreed. It is tedious and long. Get with the 21st century. How can this not be a standard feature already?
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Little Cardinal
I often found myself in the middle of the scene, usually during the editing, when I realized that I needed to split the scene at this point. Ideally, if I can press '/' and select 'Split Scene' there.
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Slight Parrot
Little Cardinal A thousand times YES.
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Fancy Guppy
Really necessary! 😊
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Lively Swordtail
Would really be a timesaver and make your product more intuitive to have this functionality. I tend to write from scratch, only using the AI as a consultant or proofreader along the way.
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Nectarine Mollusk
It seems like a no-brainer. Not sure why we can't insert scenes or chapters already. I'm faced with this right now so count me in for an upvote.
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Historical Wildfowl
Please add this feature.
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Great Canidae
please add this feature
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