Settings
Setting Cards represent locations in your story. They live in their own row above the Throughline in the Draft Workspace, alongside Characters.
What’s on a Setting
Section titled “What’s on a Setting”A Setting Card holds:
- Title
- Color, used to wrap Beats
- Description
Casting
Section titled “Casting”Drag a Setting Card onto a Beat and it becomes that Beat’s Setting, shown as a colored “sleeve” around the card. Unlike Characters, a Beat can only be associated with one Setting.
You can also pick a Setting in the Beat dialog, or in the Beat’s top bar in the Write Workspace.
Grouping
Section titled “Grouping”Drop a Setting onto another to stack it there, for example every room of a palace in one pile.
Name them place first, then a dash and the room: “KING’S PALACE - GREAT HALL”. When cards in a pile are named after the place of the card on top, the pile shows that place once above it, and those cards show only their room. Hover a card to see its full title. Your titles stay as you wrote them, and scene headings and exports use them in full.
In the script
Section titled “In the script”A Setting’s title feeds the location half of a scene heading, and stays linked. Change the Setting’s title later and the scene headings follow. See Formatting & Elements.
Recycling
Section titled “Recycling”Drag a Setting onto the recycling bin and it’s recycled, not gone. Open the bin and you can restore it exactly where it was.