Books
A project is your local home for one or more books. Writer Studio puts no limit on how many books a project holds, so a project works equally well for a single novel or a loose collection.
Books in one project stay independent: each has its own manuscript structure, its own scenes, and its own story world. The books do not share story knowledge — series linking (a shared wiki across books) is out of scope for now.
Working with books
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Switch books | Pick a book from the book switcher in the title bar (it shows the current book's name) |
| Create a book | Open the book switcher → New book, then name it and pick a start structure |
| Rename a book | Right-click the book in the Explorer, choose Properties, and edit the Book Name field; this changes the displayed name only and never breaks links, appearances, or version history |
| Delete a book | Close the project. On the start screen, choose Delete book on the book's tile, type the book's title exactly as shown, and confirm; the book's folder moves to the system Trash. See Delete a book and get it back |
Creating a book offers a start-structure choice: a blank scene, a chapter with a first scene, or a template gallery of universal story-structure frameworks (3-Act, Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, Snowflake Method, 5-Act, Story Circle, 7-Point) and RU genre starting shapes (LitRPG, Transported Hero/Isekai, Boyar Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy). Every template creates ordinary, fully editable structure — nothing is locked. You can also begin from existing material; see Import. Nothing forces parts or chapters on a new book.
Delete a book and get it back
A book is deleted only from the start screen, with its project closed. Its folder moves to the system Trash — your operating system's own — and Writer Studio has no action that brings back just that book. The system Trash can be emptied at any time, so the folder is not guaranteed to stay recoverable; restoring a Backup taken earlier, or returning the whole project to an earlier point, also brings the book back as part of the whole project. The steps are in Deleting a whole book or project.
- Get a deleted book back. Restore its folder from the system Trash to its original place, using your system's own command, then open the project. The book is back in its project, with its history and issues.
- Reuse the title. A new book can carry the title of a deleted one. It is a different book: the deleted book's history and issues never attach to it.
- Folder name reserved for a deleted book. The folder name of a deleted book stays reserved for it. A different book found in a folder with that name is still listed on the start screen, with the mark Folder name reserved for a deleted book and the deleted book's title. Opening the project renames this book's folder and leaves its text unchanged; the book then opens like any other. Open the project once before you put the deleted book back. If the folder cannot be renamed — for example, another program is using it — the reason is shown on the book's tile and the book does not open; the project's other books still open. A book that carries the mark cannot be deleted until its folder is renamed.
- A project with no books. You can delete any book, including the last one in a project. The project's entry then reads No books and offers Create book, which creates a book and opens the project on it. That is the only way into a project with no books.
Book identity and metadata
Right-click the book in the Explorer and choose Properties to set the basics that identify it and feed export:
- Title — the book's name.
- Author name — the author credited on the manuscript.
- Description — a short summary of the book.
A Book Metadata section in the same properties adds further export-preparation fields, all optional: an author display name, genre, subtitle, language, target audience, keywords, series name and number, age rating, copyright, publication date, and ISBN.
Export uses this metadata to fill in titles, author credits, and book information. See Export for which formats use which fields.
Front and back matter
A book can carry optional sections that appear around the manuscript on export — for example a dedication or epigraph at the front, an author's note or an "also by this author" list at the back. These are plain text you edit in the book's properties, and they are included only when you turn them on in the export dialog. They are entirely optional: leave them empty and export skips them.
Notes
- A book's data lives inside the project folder on disk, so it travels, backs up, and restores with the project. See Safety and recovery.
- Inside an open book, the AI assistant can do what you can — but only when you ask. Deleting a whole book stays with you: the assistant cannot do it. See AI assistant.