Use a prose section for a scene's intention, an outline for its beats, and a script section for the exchange you can already hear. Freeform, Mixed, and Treatment modes let these sections coexist where the project format supports them.
Choose the section for the job
Open the command palette and search for the section you want to insert. The sections on offer depend on the draft's writing mode.
| Section | Use it for | Editing behavior |
|---|---|---|
| Prose | A premise, treatment paragraphs, research text, or questions still to answer | Paragraphs, headings, emphasis, lists, and alignment |
| Outline | Beats and a plan for how the story moves | Outline structure alongside the developing draft |
| Script | A scene ready for screenplay form | Scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, and other script elements |
For example, put “Mara needs a reason to stay” in prose, sketch the discovery as an outline beat, then write the scene in a script section. The prose can stay beside the scene until you decide what belongs in the finished script.
Format prose
Place the cursor in a prose paragraph or heading to show its formatting controls. Formatting applies within one prose section, so keep a selection inside it.
| Control | Result |
|---|---|
| Body text or Heading | Change the paragraph's role without turning it into a screenplay element |
| Bold, italic, underline, strike | Emphasize selected text |
| Alignment | Choose left, center, right, or justified text |
| Bulleted or numbered list | Keep items together with editable list structure |
| Indent or outdent | Change the level of a list item |
Inside a list, Enter continues the list, Tab indents an item, and Shift–Tab moves it out a level. In script sections, Tab keeps its screenplay element-cycling behavior.
Choose when to make it all script
Choose Screenplay from the writing-mode menu when the project's format offers it. If any prose or outlines remain, Plot asks what to do with each: convert its text to script, or keep it as a note that doesn't print. Script sections become part of the script as they are.
Converting keeps every word but changes the structure: prose becomes action, headings can become section markers that don't print, and lists become plain lines with their markers. Read the result and check the export you plan to send.
Switching back to Freeform or Mixed lets you add prose again; it doesn't undo the conversion. To get the earlier structure back, restore a save point from before it.