# Draft line > A parallel version of the same document — explore an alternate ending or rebuild an act without overwriting the draft you may still need, then land the winning line when you decide. Also known as parallel draft, alternate draft ## In practice Use a draft line when you need to live in an alternate version of the whole document — a different ending, a page-one rebuild, a tone experiment that touches every act. Each line keeps its own save-point history, so the "safe" draft and the experiment stop fighting inside one overloaded file. Name lines the way the room talks: "Alt ending — she stays," not cryptic codes. Presence and comments attach to the structured draft you are viewing, which only helps if people can tell which parallel they opened. Retire or archive lines that lost so they stop competing for attention during the next break. When a full-document experiment wins, incorporate lands that draft line onto the line you keep. Today the whole document moves after you preview it and click Incorporate. For one scene now, open a take; for a scene or an act, run Agent Mode on that range. [See draft lines](https://www.inkwell.software/features) ## Common questions ### How is a draft line different from a take? A draft line is a full parallel document. A take is tighter — one scene — for trying a local alternate without branching the whole script. ### Will draft lines confuse my collaborators? Not if you name them like writers talk. Presence and comments stay on the structured draft you are actually viewing — unclear names are what create wrong opens. ### When should I create a draft line instead of editing in place? When you may still need the current whole draft intact. If the experiment could fail and you would want yesterday's full script back as a living parallel, fork a line. ### Can I merge only some scenes from a draft line? Not today. Incorporate lands the winning draft line as a whole. If you only want one scene rewritten now, that work is a take or Agent Mode. ## Related terms - [Save point](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/save-point): A named, unchanging snapshot of your draft at a moment you choose — “Table read,” “Before studio notes.” Unlike autosave, it never quietly overwrites itself, so you can always return to exactly that version. - [Incorporate](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/incorporate): Land a winning draft line onto the line you keep. Today the whole document moves. For one scene, use a take, or Agent Mode for a scene or an act; incorporate selected scenes is how the land is planned to get finer. - [Semantic changes](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/semantic-changes): Differences between two versions shown at story structure level — this dialogue line rewritten, that scene moved — instead of a noisy character-by-character redline. - [Take](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/take): A parallel version of a scene you can try without touching the main draft — another joke, another button, same script. Keep it when it wins; drop it when it does not. - [Read the pillar guide](https://www.inkwell.software/learn/version-control-for-screenwriters): A longer guide for this workflow --- Canonical page: