Write and rewrite with ease.
Manuscript is a prose editor in which any phrase, sentence or paragraph can hold several takes. Skip the workarounds. Rewrite with ease.
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Manuscript is for
The error message
One word decides whether the customer blames their card or the shop. Try declined, refused and rejected in place. Keep the one that reads right.
The tagline
The client wants options. Write three taglines in the same spot and read the page with each. Send the strongest. Keep the rest for the next round.
The thesis
Your thesis can go three directions, and so can the paragraph that argues it. Read the essay with each. Hand in the strongest argument.
The opening
The first ten seconds decide whether the room listens. Write the opening three ways and the turn as a story, an argument or an instruction. Hear the whole speech with each before you choose.
The last line
Not every choice gets made today. Keep three ways into the scene and three last lines. Let the next chapter decide.
What Manuscript does for you
Add a take
Another version shouldn’t mean another copy.
Select a word, a sentence or a whole paragraph and add a take. Write as many as you like. One reads in the draft at a time, so the piece always reads as one text. Step through them in place.
Morning
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
Move sections
Try a new order without cut and paste.
Drag a section in the outline to move it. Its paragraphs and their takes go with it. Move a single paragraph the same way.
Stack takes
See every take at once.
Stack every take of a passage beside the text and read them together. Choose one and the draft takes it.
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
Compare side by side
Read the whole piece both ways.
Read the whole piece twice, side by side, with a different take in each copy. Read each to the end. Choose the one that works and the draft takes it.
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
The frost came overnight, without ceremonyin the night, quiet as a debt being collected. By morning the beds were silveredstiff and shininggone grey, and the last of the tomatoes had surrendered on the vine.
Mara walked the rows with her coffee going cold, counting what the cold had takenspared — less than she fearedmore than she hoped, if she was honest. The kale, of course, looked delighted.
She went in for her gloves.
She stood a while longer, breath and coffee steaming together.
The garden could wait; the frost could not.
History
Every draft in one file.
Every step you take is kept. Go back to any checkpoint and carry on from there on a new branch. Name the checkpoints you want to find again.
Text that’s ready to pass to your favourite agent.
When the draft is ready, copy it as Markdown. Paste it wherever you work. Or export it as a Markdown file.
Bring your work in too. Manuscript opens .md, .txt, .docx and .rtf files.
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