Manuscript Volumes, Reference Volumes, and Reference Chapters

Manuscript volumes

These contain publishable chapters and contribute to manuscript word counts, continuation context, neighboring-chapter windows, and exports.

Reference volumes and chapters

Reference volumes sit before the manuscript and hold worldbuilding, source outlines, character notes, timelines, style references, and project instructions. They do not count toward manuscript length. Their chapters can use Markdown preview; manuscript chapters remain plain text.

Sources retain their type: manuscript evidence describes what has happened in prose, outline evidence describes planned events, and setting evidence describes world rules or background. A future outline must not be treated as an event that already occurred.