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Choose Which Changes to Incorporate in Plot

Bring a draft line back to Main change by change: leave out what didn't work, and incorporate only the changes you chose.

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  1. Play from 0:00: Take only what works from a draft line.
  2. Play from 0:03: Bring a draft line back to Main.
  3. Play from 0:06: Choose change by change.
  4. Play from 0:10: Incorporate only what you chose.
  5. Play from 0:14: Write your next draft in Plot. Start writing free at inkwell.software.

Every change starts included

Incorporate shows what the draft line would change in Main as markup on the page: what comes out, what goes in, and a Bring in or Leave out choice under each change. The bar at the foot of the page counts what is coming in.

Nothing moves until you choose Incorporate, and a save point lets you return to the draft from before.

What you leave out stays on the draft line

A change you leave out is not lost. It stays on its draft line, so you can bring it in later or keep working on it there.

For an experiment on one scene, a take compares and lands that scene on its own.

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2:33

Meet Plot: Screenplay Editor Tour

Write a scene, explore a rewrite on a draft line, ask about your screenplay, review an Agent Mode edit, and keep a save point.

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0:35

Review an Agent Mode Edit in Plot

Give Agent Mode a scene note, inspect its proposed dialogue change, and accept the edit in your screenplay.

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0:24

Ask Plot About Your Screenplay

Ask where your screenplay reveals a character’s fear and follow the answer alongside the scene.

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0:31

Write Your First Scene in Plot

Start a new script and write a scene from a blank page: type a heading, press Enter and Tab, and Plot formats every line as a screenplay.

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0:29

Try a Rewrite on a Draft Line in Plot

Start a draft line, rewrite a line freely while Main stays as it was, then preview the difference and incorporate the rewrite.

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0:20

Keep a Named Save Point in Plot

Write until the draft is worth keeping, save it with a name, and find it at the top of version history whenever you need it.

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0:34

When Agent Mode Asks, It Keeps Working

Hand Agent Mode a bigger job, see it ask about the calls that are yours, and answer in one click while it keeps working on the scene.

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0:25

Leave a Note and Let the Dramaturg Address It in Plot

Leave a note on the words it is about, hand your open notes to the Dramaturg, and keep or undo the change it makes from the note.

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0:23

Import a Final Draft File into Plot

Bring an .fdx script into Plot from the projects page, check the preview with its title page, and keep writing with every element in place.

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