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0:00For some, Novelcfter can seem a little
0:02complicated to get set up, especially
0:04for authors who just want to focus on
0:05writing their book, right? But I still
0:07find Novelcfter to be one of the best
0:09software assistants out there for
0:11authors, even if you don't use AI, which
0:13of course AI is one of Novelcfter
0:15strengths, but it's actually a really
0:16good tool regardless of whether you use
0:18AI or not, just to keep yourself
0:20organized. So, in this video, I'll walk
0:22you through five steps to get started on
0:24the right foot when you're just getting
0:25started inside of Novel Crafter. And you
0:28know, I've done videos like this before,
0:30but a while back, Novel CCfter had some
0:31huge updates. I was going to make videos
0:34uh about those updates, but then it so
0:35happened that these updates roughly
0:37coincided with the birth of our second
0:39daughter, and then we moved. There's
0:41this whole thing. So, now I'm just going
0:43to start from the beginning and create
0:44several videos over the next couple of
0:46months or so, uh, walking you through
0:49every single part of the writing process
0:51in Novel Crafter. So, let's get into
0:53those five steps. So, the first thing I
0:54want to look at is to make sure that we
0:56are on the correct plan. So, uh there
0:59are four different plans with
1:01Novelcrafter. And right off the bat, I'm
1:03going to say you're going to want either
1:05the hobbyist or the artisan plan. And
1:07I'll get to what is different about them
1:09in a second. Um the only reason you
1:12might want the scribe feature is if you
1:14don't use AI. If you are not an AI
1:17person and you just want Novelcrafter
1:19for all of the organizational features
1:21and the way it can like handle your
1:24story bible and everything, keep
1:25everything in one place, that's fine.
1:27You can do so on the Scribe plan. It's
1:29very inexpensive at $4 a month, but
1:32there is no AI integration with that
1:35plan. So, I'm guessing most of the
1:36people, if you're watching this video,
1:38probably want some kind of AI uh
1:40integration with Novelcrafter. And so,
1:42for that, you'll want either the
1:43hobbyist or the artisan. Now, the
1:45specialist plan is 20 bucks
1:48uh a month and it does feature
1:51collaborative writing and so basically
1:54uh if you have a team and uh and you're
1:57working on things together with that
1:59team that is the situation where you
2:01might want a larger or or the more
2:04expensive plan. I'm guessing most of you
2:06do not fall into that category. Even I
2:08don't fall into this category. Um, I do
2:11have a team that I work with on various
2:14writing projects, but it's not something
2:16that we do inside of Novelcrafter, per
2:18se. And so, uh, uh, so I'm guessing most
2:21of you won't need this. So, that leaves
2:23us to the hobbyist at $8 a month and the
2:25artisan at $14 a month. And the main
2:28thing that you'll get out of the artisan
2:30that the hobbyist doesn't have is access
2:33to this novel crafter's own like
2:36proprietary chatbot. Essentially, it's a
2:38chatbot, but it's a chatbot that is
2:40integrated with Novelcfter in such a way
2:42that you can easily access things from
2:45your codecs, from like all of the
2:48different things that you create inside
2:49of Novelcfter, you can easily pull them
2:51in and out of uh the chatbot in, you
2:55know, whatever way you want. So, it's a
2:58little bit like a projects
3:00feature, but more advanced, more comp,
3:03and complicated is not the right word,
3:05but um it can do more. It's it's it's
3:08definitely a much more robust version of
3:11a project inside of a chatbot, right? If
3:14if that makes sense. And you can use it
3:16inside of every novel project. So it it
3:20essentially is it's just like a tailored
3:22claude or chatgbt project that's just a
3:26little bit more advanced specifically
3:28for each of the books that you write.
3:30That is the main thing you get out of
3:31the artisan plan that you do not get in
3:34the hobbyist plan. And if you're still
3:36confused about that, I will briefly show
3:38off what that chatbot looks like and how
3:41you can use it inside of Novelcfter. It
3:43is this is a situation I think where if
3:45you are only going to be using chat bots
3:48for your writing that then you can
3:52actually use this and delete any other
3:54chat bots that you're using. Um, now if
3:57you're using chat bots for other things,
3:59like I use Perplexity for for news now
4:01and then um then you know that that's
4:05moot. But uh anyway, that should give
4:07you a good idea of the two plans. You're
4:09definitely going to want at least the
4:11hobbyist if you're using AI.
4:14Uh and if you want that extra chatbot
4:16features, which I do find it quite
4:17useful myself, then you'd go for the
4:19artisan. So if you can afford it,
4:21Artisan is probably what I would do. Um,
4:23and uh, if if you can further afford it,
4:26you get a two months off if you get the
4:28annual plan. So, it'd be $80 for a year,
4:31$140 for for a year for the Artisan. Um,
4:36so it's just a little bit cheaper on
4:38average if you get the the full year. By
4:41the way, I do have an affiliate link
4:42down below if you want to use it to uh
4:44to get started. Um, I do not do
4:48affiliates for anything that I don't use
4:50myself or strongly recommend. uh for a
4:53certain subclass of authors. And u while
4:56I I do use automations more these days
4:58to create my own books, Novelcfter is
5:01still absolutely one of my favorites. So
5:04with that in mind, let's get into
5:05actually setting up your project and all
5:08of that uh with the next five steps. So
5:09the second one is to actually just
5:11create your first project. So to do
5:14that, you'd come here. You won't see if
5:15you're just starting out, you won't see
5:16any of these projects. You'd come here
5:19to create a novel. Name your novel here.
5:22uh add your author or pen name here and
5:25then you can select a series. So if this
5:27is part of a series, you can actually
5:29have like additional information about
5:31that series that will carry over. So you
5:35can say new series and we'll enter a
5:39name for the series. We'll just say test
5:40series because I am not creative this
5:43morning. And uh now we have a series set
5:47up. And by the way, if you want to add a
5:49little bit uh more information about
5:51this, up here at the top, you'll see
5:53series.
5:55And now we can go and hey, we got test
5:58series. And I can add additional
6:00description here. I can change the
6:02title. I can select which novels are in
6:05this series. If you have the $20 art, uh
6:08the $20 collaboration and team plan, you
6:12can select like who can access this
6:14series and all of that. Uh but that's
6:18series right there. So let's go back to
6:20the novel. Uh we'll create a novel
6:24under the test series
6:27uh series name. And then you just uh you
6:30know select your language. Of course uh
6:32I'm guessing most people watching this
6:34are doing so in English. And so you can
6:36select your language there. If you have
6:39a novel
6:42that you have set up as a template, you
6:43can uh use that here. But if you're just
6:45starting out, you won't have any
6:47templates created. So, we'll go ahead
6:50and create novel.
6:52All right. And here we go. Here is
6:55uh our default look at novel crafter.
6:59So, this brings me to the third of the
7:01five things that I'm going to share with
7:03you today. And this is probably the most
7:04important, the one you need to
7:06understand if you want to get started on
7:09the right foot in Novelcrafter. and that
7:10is we need to hook up an API to
7:13Novelcfter so that it can write with AI.
7:16Okay, that those uh pricing plans, the
7:19$8 and the $14 here, uh this is just
7:22overhead. This is why Novelcraft is so
7:25much cheaper than most other programs
7:27out there like S Pudarite for example or
7:30even just a standard chatbot. And the
7:32reason for that is because this is just
7:33overhead. the actual AI words that
7:36you're going to generate is going to
7:37depend on uh how many words you
7:40generate. So, Novelcfter does not have
7:41any limits like some um like some
7:46projects do some software. Uh Novelcfter
7:49does not have any limits to how much you
7:50can write because that writing part will
7:53be pay as you go. So, there are no
7:55limits, but if you're really doing a lot
7:58of writing inside of Novelcfter, it
7:59could add up. Um, and so we need to set
8:03up those connections there. So the way
8:04you do that is go down here to your
8:06profile here at the bottom left hand
8:08corner. Uh, hopefully you can see that
8:10there. Let me see if I can zoom in. Um,
8:14you select this and hit general
8:17settings.
8:20So you want to select this and hit AI
8:22connections. Now there are a number of
8:25different AI connections that you can
8:27set up here. And uh there's OpenAI if
8:31you want to access OpenAI's uh options.
8:34There's uh Mistl, there's LM Studio. LM
8:38Studio, as you may know, is a an Alma as
8:42well. These two allow you to run models
8:45locally on your computer. So if you have
8:48those, then you can just plug those into
8:51Novelcfter and use those here. Um so
8:53those are handy if if you're wanting a
8:55little bit more privacy and stuff like
8:57that. There's featherless AI, which is a
8:59little bit like uh Open Router up here,
9:01except it's a fixed monthly price uh but
9:04does give you unlimited access to quite
9:06a few models, which is interesting. I
9:08have not tested that one yet. Uh but the
9:11main one, the one that is recommended
9:13here and is my personal favorite. It's
9:15also my my recommendation is to connect
9:18Open Router. Let me show you Open Router
9:20briefly. I have done whole videos on
9:22Open Router, so you can check those out.
9:24But essentially, Open Router is a place
9:26where you can select from literal
9:29thousands, hundreds of models, including
9:33all of the latest models from Cloud,
9:35from OpenAI, from everyone. Uh, and this
9:38is all pay as you go. So, it really
9:40doesn't cost you a whole lot. And if
9:42you're if you've created an account in
9:44Open Router, which you will need to do,
9:46you can go over to um keys up here in
9:51the top corner. And um this is where you
9:54can come here to create an API key which
9:56you can then plug into various
9:58applications. I use it not just in Novel
10:00CCfter but I use it in my automations in
10:02make or NADN. Um and having this
10:06understanding of of creating API keys
10:08and using it is really handy. So in the
10:11case of Novelcfter though you don't
10:13actually have to come here and create an
10:14API key. You can just come to Nova
10:16Crafter and say connect and then say
10:19continue to open router and it will
10:22automatically create your API uh key for
10:25you. You need to authorize this
10:28and boom, you're done. That's all you
10:30have to do. You need to just make sure
10:31you have an open router account and run
10:34through that process and suddenly you're
10:36good to go. All right. So now we've got
10:38this new novel project. We've got
10:41everything set up in terms of the API so
10:43it can access AI uh models. And so now
10:47we want to get to know the four main
10:49areas of um uh of Novelcfter. So I'm
10:54going to give you a brief tour here. I'm
10:55going to do more in-depth videos in the
10:57near future. So if I don't cover
10:59something you want to know more about,
11:00don't worry. I'm going to get into much
11:02more in depth. Uh but you know, if
11:05you're just starting out, you do kind of
11:06want to get a lay of the land, so to
11:08speak. So, the first main area, uh, one
11:11of my favorites is the codeex. This is
11:14probably the thing that sets Novel
11:16CCfter apart the most is it has by far
11:18the most advanced codecs or the most
11:22advanced uh, you can think of it as a
11:23place to store all of your little bits
11:25of information that you need the AI to
11:27know at different places in your novel.
11:30So, for instance, if we come here to new
11:32entry, we can create a bunch of
11:35different things. Uh we can create
11:37characters, locations, objects, lore,
11:39subplots, and uh if you have something
11:42that doesn't fall into one of these
11:43categories, you can create other and um
11:46and actually create new categories that
11:48go here. You also have global entries,
11:50style guides, story genres, stuff like
11:53that. That's useful to have so the AI is
11:55always constantly aware of like what
11:57your genre is, what style do you want to
11:59have, that sort of thing. So that's just
12:02something to keep in mind there. Uh, the
12:04other thing that we want to do here
12:07while we're here in the codeex, and this
12:09isn't necessarily like I'm not going to
12:11get into all of the ins and outs of
12:13setting up your project and everything,
12:15but one thing I do recommend doing
12:16immediately is figuring out who is your
12:19main character. So, if you go here and
12:21select character, uh, it'll come up with
12:23this and we can give it a name. We just
12:25call him John. Uh, and then give him
12:28like maybe he goes by Jman, I don't
12:30know. uh that's just a nickname he goes
12:33by. Uh so you can put those in here and
12:35then maybe a short description. You
12:37actually don't need to put this in here
12:38yet. We're not going to get into the
12:40more advanced uh codeex building yet,
12:43but I'll show you the reason why I want
12:45this here. So we'll just say John is a
12:47nondescript
12:50um
12:52brownhaired
12:54white guy. Okay.
12:58Uh,
12:59and um, so we'll just run with that.
13:02Okay, this is our character. Okay, and
13:06the reason we're setting this up is you
13:07want to have the character that's going
13:09to be your viewpoint character the most.
13:11Like, who's your protagonist? Who's your
13:13main guy uh, for this novel, right, that
13:16you're setting up. Now, you might have
13:18multiple viewpoint characters throughout
13:20the story, and that's fine. You'll be
13:21able to change those when needed, but
13:23just to get started, it's good to have
13:25your first character set up here. So,
13:27I'll get back to this, but let's go
13:28through the other three main areas of
13:31Novelcrafter. Starting with the plan
13:33tab. So, you've got the the other three
13:35here, plan, write, and chat. So, plan,
13:38if we click on this, gives us this
13:41screen, which uh as you can see, there
13:42is nothing here yet. This is where
13:44you're essentially going to outline your
13:46story. This is where the outline goes,
13:47right? So, you can create your first
13:49scene here. Add a summary. John goes for
13:53a walk and gets mugged. Okay.
13:58Uh and uh this is just chapter one. And
14:00I'm just like just pulling stuff out of
14:03nothing. Um this is not how I do my
14:05outlines typically. Um but if you have
14:09like an outline already established, you
14:11can come here and just say create from
14:13outline and uh you need to follow this
14:15format where it says act one, chapter
14:18one, etc., etc. and it will be able to
14:21take this and plop it into the right
14:23place. You can also come here and import
14:26from a document if you've got a document
14:28with your outline in it. There's also
14:30different ways to view things like let's
14:32say if we create from outline you can
14:34actually um start with a couple of
14:37templates. So you may have heard of the
14:39hero's journey of course. So if we
14:40select the hero's journey it'll populate
14:42everything here for you. You can go
14:44ahead and add any details you have about
14:46this so far and then hit create and it
14:49will populate all of those here for you.
14:52The reason I'm doing this is so you can
14:53see there's also we've got it under
14:55outline mode here, but there's also grid
14:57mode which will make it look a little
14:59bit like this which is actually probably
15:01my favorite way to look at it. Kind of
15:03keeps things nice and visually,
15:06you know, looking good. And then uh
15:08there's also the matrix option which
15:10looks a little bit like this. a little
15:13bit more spreadsheetish.
15:15Um, which is another good visual way to
15:18do it. So, it depend depends on, you
15:20know, how you like to look at your
15:21outlines. Do you like it in a
15:23spreadsheet form? Do you like it just in
15:25the grid like this? Uh, do you like just
15:27a straight outline like this? You know,
15:30any one of them work. Uh, but this is
15:32the plan tab. Then we get to the right
15:34tab. This is where you're going to be
15:36doing most of your writing. So, since
15:37we've got the plan tab here and we go to
15:40the right tab, you can see it's already
15:42sorted out where the chapters are.
15:44Chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3. Uh, if
15:47we had a summary here, so if we go back
15:49to that initial, uh, John goes for a
15:52walk and gets mugged.
15:55Um, if I put that here under chapter 1,
15:58scene one, and then I look at the plan
15:59tab, here it is listed here. Uh, and
16:03vice versa. So, if I were to put my
16:06information here, it would show up on
16:08the side here in the right tab, right?
16:10And there's lots of stuff you can do
16:11here. The main thing that you need to
16:13understand if is if you're using AI that
16:17uh if all you need to do is do a forward
16:19slash and it'll come up with these
16:21little options here that you can do. In
16:24most cases, you're going to want to have
16:25this scene beat option. Select this and
16:29then this is when you start to basically
16:32say what happens next. Uh John wakes
16:37up ready for the day
16:41and thinking
16:43it will be
16:46a beautiful day because the sun is
16:50shining
16:52and the birds are singing.
16:55you know, just do that and then you can
16:57select what word count you think is
17:00ideal. Notice that it's saying there's
17:02no point of view set. The AI might use a
17:04random perspective. Um, so we'll get
17:07back to this, but just to show you how
17:09this works, uh, you come here, you
17:11select, uh, which prompt you're going to
17:14use, which I'll get into that a little
17:16bit as well. Um,
17:20you won't see a lot of these prompts.
17:21You'll probably just see this general
17:23purpose system prompt. You can then
17:25select which model you want to use
17:29and which ones are are the best. Uh they
17:32are listed in various formats. So we've
17:34got like some of the most popular here.
17:36GPD40, Cloud Force Sonnet, Deepseek V3.
17:40Um Deepseek's very affordable. So you
17:43can easily use that. So let's actually
17:45just use Deepseek V3 and see what that
17:47does. And then you just click on it.
17:52John cracked one eye. open. As sunlight
17:54spilled across his pillow, a sparrow
17:56tripped just outside the window,
17:58following followed by the answering call
18:00of its mate. He stretched under the
18:01sheets, shoulder joints popping
18:03pleasantly, and smiled at the patch of
18:04blue sky visible through the blinds.
18:06Perfect. You know, not a bad opening
18:08given what I gave it, right? Um, so this
18:12is the right tab. This is where you'll
18:13be doing all of that writing. It's a
18:15great place to be. Okay. Um, so next,
18:18let's go to the chat tab. Now, this is
18:20the thing that I mentioned that you get
18:22with the $14 plan that you do not get
18:25with the $8 plan. Um, and so this is uh
18:30this is super useful, okay, for a number
18:32of reasons. Because first of all, you
18:34can select context here. So, what do we
18:37want it to understand? You can actually
18:40give it you can give it your full
18:41outline. You can give it other forms of
18:43context too. So, we created one codeex
18:45entry, right, of John. So, let's say we
18:48want to make sure it understands who
18:49John is and everything about him. Um, we
18:53can give it specific scenes, specific
18:56chapters, specific acts. You can even
18:58give it the full novel text, although I
19:01would be careful doing that one because
19:02it will make your prompts much more
19:04expensive and probably a little bit
19:06unwieldy. Uh, meaning you water it down
19:09too much and the AI can't really handle
19:10it. Um, but there may be some instances
19:13where you actually want to want to have
19:15the full novel text. So, this is really
19:17great because you can get all of this
19:19context. I usually like it to know my
19:21outline and maybe a few codeex entries.
19:25You can also select entries by type. So,
19:27if you want it to know all of your
19:28characters, you can add that here, etc.
19:32So, it's it's a really great way to kind
19:34of give it the context you need for this
19:35chat. Then, you can ask it any any
19:37question you want, you know. So, this is
19:39great if you're brainstorming, you want
19:40to figure things out. Um, you can select
19:43which model you're using, right? And,
19:47uh, that's really important. There are
19:49also specific prompts for the chat. So,
19:52this one's just using the general chat
19:54prompt, but you can actually create
19:56other prompts that go in here. Uh, which
19:59is the last thing I'm going to show you
20:01here is prompts. So, I guess you could
20:03call this I said there's four main areas
20:05of Novelcfter. This is kind of the
20:07fifth. Uh you can you can tell I haven't
20:09done any work here in a while because
20:11I've got all of these old prompts of
20:13mine that have not been converted over.
20:15Uh but essentially this is where you're
20:17going to look at your prompts, find the
20:19prompts that uh that the AI has or that
20:22Novelcfter has by default, which are
20:24these ones that are labeled system.
20:26Uh but then you also have prompts that
20:29you can create yourself. You can modify
20:32the system prompts to work how you want.
20:35Uh, for instance, we were just using
20:36that general chat prompt here, but
20:40there's also like the developmental
20:42editor system prompt and the scene beats
20:44from summary system prompt uh that kind
20:47of thing. Uh, which is a specific way of
20:49using the chat that uh that you might
20:52not get here. So, uh that is the general
20:55idea behind the prompts. I'm not going
20:57to get into this too much because it's a
20:58little bit more of an advanced topic and
21:00we're just kind of getting a lay of the
21:01land here, but just know that you can
21:04modify and uh and create your own
21:06prompts inside of Novelcfter here. So,
21:10something to keep in mind. Okay. All
21:12right. Last but not least, uh and when
21:14you're just getting started, we want to
21:16make sure you set up your settings and
21:18your metadata correctly. And this is why
21:20we we created this first character of
21:23John inside of the codeex. Um, so here
21:27in the settings, which is this top
21:29button up here that looks like a little
21:31gear icon, uh, it'll come up with four
21:34different things that you can do here in
21:35the settings. We've got metadata,
21:36writing, collaboration, and export. You
21:38might not see the collaboration one
21:40depending on the plan you're on. Uh, but
21:42here's where you can modify your novel's
21:44title if you want, the author or pen
21:46name, the series. So, all of that stuff
21:48we set up earlier can be modified after
21:50the fact. You can also archive or delete
21:52the novel, which you want to be careful
21:54of. Um but um the one thing that we want
21:58to make sure we're doing here is in the
22:00writing tab here. Uh so you can add
22:03labels or markers. It's not really
22:05important at this time. Uh this is a
22:07little bit more of an advanced topic. Uh
22:09same with presets. Uh but over here you
22:12want to make sure these pro settings are
22:14set to what you want them to be. First
22:17of all, what is the tense of your novel?
22:18Most novels are in past or present
22:20tense. So you want to select between
22:23those here.
22:24I would just probably leave it at past
22:26tense. You can select your language. Uh
22:28if you wanted to use more of a British
22:30English, for example, or a US English,
22:33I'm just going to leave it at general
22:35English. And most importantly here,
22:39setting up point of view. Okay, so if
22:42you have a book that's in first person
22:43point of view, where the character
22:45saying I, me, this or that, you want to
22:47set it set it to first person. On rare
22:50occasions, there are instances where you
22:52might want second person, particularly
22:53if you're doing non-fiction, you're
22:55speaking to the reader.
22:58Uh you can also do third person, but uh
23:01third person limited and third person
23:02omnisient are important to understand
23:05here. So third person limited, it's very
23:07similar to first person, except that
23:10it's uh you're not actually in first
23:12person. You're kind of like in the head
23:14of the character. You can hear their
23:15thoughts, but you can't hear the
23:16thoughts of the people around them,
23:18right? So I think of it as first person
23:20but actually talking in third person if
23:24that makes sense. Most third person
23:26novels are using third person limited
23:29where you're in the viewpoint of one
23:31character's head and you're not head
23:32hopping to other characters. There are
23:34some books that use thirdp person
23:36omnisient. Um Dune is a really good
23:39example of like an adult novel using uh
23:42third person omnition where you can jump
23:44from one head to another. Uh, this
23:48presents some potential problems. Like
23:50if you have a character who's trying to
23:52keep a secret, you should not be using
23:54third person omnisient unless it's okay
23:56to reveal that secret to everybody
23:58because you can't just say, "Oh, we're
24:00not going to get into his head, but
24:02we're getting going to get into the
24:03heads of everybody else." And in Dune,
24:05there is actually a character who is
24:08about to betray the family the the uh
24:10the family that he's grown up with and
24:13has served for all his life. he's going
24:15to betray them. And we learned that uh
24:18through the third person omnisient
24:19because uh Frank Herbert doesn't hold
24:22that back from us. Now, if you were
24:24doing third person limited, unless you
24:26were in the head of that specific
24:27person, you wouldn't know any of that,
24:29right? So, that's kind of like the the
24:31differences between third person limited
24:32and third person omnisient, you'll also
24:34see thirdp person omnisient used in a
24:36lot of like whimsical children's books
24:38like The Hobbit or Wind in the Willows
24:40and stuff like that. uh where the where
24:42it's like a narrator who knows all is
24:44narrating the thing. Uh someone who
24:46already knows where the story is going
24:48will say things like little did they
24:50know that you know blah blah blah. Um
24:54most books these days are either in
24:57first person or third person limited. So
24:59let's just say this is actually in first
25:01person. Well then we need to know who is
25:03the character that we're going to be
25:06experiencing uh experiencing their
25:08thoughts and stuff. And this is why we
25:11selected we made a character already. So
25:13I'm go ahead and select John, right? You
25:16could also select third person limited
25:18here. And uh you might, especially if
25:20you're using third person limited, you
25:22might have multiple viewpoints
25:23throughout the book. Don't worry, you
25:25can change this at any time. You can
25:26change it for specific scenes where one
25:28scene has a different viewpoint
25:30character than the rest. But uh in
25:34general here, uh you just set this to
25:37what the default's going to And if
25:38you're writing first person, mo in most
25:41cases, you're going to only be writing
25:44first person from the one character's
25:46perspective the whole time. Okay. Uh so
25:49it's good to get this out of the way
25:51here as well.
25:54Now, if you add the collaboration plan
25:56here in the settings, you can add any
25:58collaborators you want for this novel.
26:00And you can also export your data here
26:02in the settings. uh whether uh if you
26:05want to export the outline uh or just
26:09the text uh you can select between like
26:11exporting summaries, exporting pros,
26:14including the act titles, etc.,
26:18which it handily tells you to disable if
26:20you're using Vellum or Attekus as your
26:22formatting tool. Uh which is a good
26:25thing to know. And uh what do you want
26:28your scene dividers to look like, etc.
26:30Uh, usually you would use asterisks for
26:33a fiction book, but you might want
26:34headings for non-fiction.
26:37And, uh, you can also export like your
26:39full codecs and snippets and chats and
26:41everything that you've done so far if
26:43you want. Um, most of the time if you're
26:46exporting, you'll probably just be
26:47exporting the pros. So, you can upload
26:50it to Attacus or Vellum or something
26:52like that to format it. Um, but this is
26:55where you do that. Okay, that is it for
26:58the settings and uh hopefully this has
27:01given you a little bit more clarity of
27:02what to do when you're just getting
27:03started. In the next video probably
27:06about Novel CCfter, I'm going to
27:08actually go through the process of
27:09setting up one of my own uh stories to
27:13be written here inside of Novelcfter.
27:15I'm in the process of writing one
27:17novella in each of the main uh tools out
27:21there. So, one for Novel CCfter, one for
27:22Sudorite, one for Raptorite, one using
27:26an automation that I make, and one just
27:27using chat bots. So, uh check out my
27:30live streams to to see me go through
27:33that process. That'll probably happen a
27:35little bit slower than these, uh these
27:39videos, uh walking you through the
27:43process, but you'll be able to actually
27:44see me do it. So, uh, hopefully that has
27:48been useful for you and I will see you
27:50in the next