or the beginnings of one. Check it out and play the demo https://ashwake-4rz9fhtb.manus.game Let me know what you think... this is a really really rough drafting

Moving In (Bringing Your Existing Work Into the WCP Binder) Here's a thing I hear almost every week in some form: "I'd love to try WordCrafter, but I already have three books started somewhere else. Do I have to start over?" No. And the reason matters, because a lot of the fear around switching tools is really fear of losing work. So this week we walk the whole path, from "I have a pile of files" to "my book lives in the Binder, tagged, sorted, and ready for the rooms." One promise first: importing doesn't touch your originals. Whatever you bring in is a copy. Your old files stay exactly where they were. What You Can Bring With You WordCrafter's importer handles most of what writers actually have: Word (DOCX) Plain text and Markdown EPUB PDF (including a scanned or image-based PDF, via the OCR option) HTML, RTF and ODT Scrivener projects NovelCrafter exports RaptorWrite exports (JSON or Markdown) Sudowrite import was still being worked on the last time I updated this list. If that's your source, export to Word or Markdown and import that instead. It's a reliable bridge. A test I'm proud of: I exported all nine of my NovelCrafter projects and imported every one of them. If you started something somewhere else, you can finish it here. And if WCP turns out not to be for you, there are multiple ways out too, including Word, EPUB, PDF and Scrivener export. Step 1: Make Somewhere to Put It Import always lands in a book. This is where the Binder trips people up, so here's the picture that makes it click: A Series or Group is a file cabinet. A Book or Type is a drawer in that cabinet. Your folders and files are the pages inside the drawer. Those names are loose on purpose. Your "Series" could be a pen name, a genre, or a pile of short stories. Your "Book" could be a novel, a collection, or a drawer called "Old Drafts." So before you import anything: Click + New in the Binder and create your Series or Project. You can convert one to the other later with a right-click, so don't agonize over it.

I've created a (somewhat) clear workflows document. This will be added into the WCP manual in the software as well and as usual is a baby step to something else. a more interactive website version to walk you through step by step and integrated into the upcoming Author EcoSystem and Writer's Desk. In researching more ways to help non AI writers I've come across some really interesting new things to help all of us out along the way. Writing, workflows, the business side, creativity, and productivity boosts.

Training Tuesday: Stealing Market Moves from Food Trucks, Tattoo Artists, and Etsy Sellers I need an honest opinion here, folks. Sometimes I think we, as authors, get so caught up looking at other authors for marketing ideas that we end up in this weird little echo chamber. Everyone’s doing the same five things, talking about the same three strategies, and then we all wonder why it feels like we’re shouting into a void that just bounces our own voices back at us. It's exhausting, honestly. I was at one of Amanda’s craft fairs a while back — you know, the usual setup, lots of resin and dried flowers, and me in the background doing whatever tech support I need to do on my phone, usually with a lukewarm Diet Coke. And I kept watching these other vendors: a food truck, a guy selling custom leather, a woman with these amazing enamel pins. They weren't reading BookTok. They weren't worried about Amazon algorithms. They were just selling. And they were really good at it. Which got me thinking: what if we just... stole their playbook? Not the actual products, obviously. But the thinking behind their sales. Because sometimes the freshest ideas come from completely unrelated places, places where the rules are different and the incentives are sharper. What Food Trucks Know That Authors Don't (Yet) Think about a food truck. You're not getting a seventy-page menu. You're getting three to five things, done really well, with a memorable name, and you know exactly what you're buying before you even get in line. They specialize. They move. They scream what they are. The Lesson: Niche, Visibility, Speed. Niche Specialization: That gourmet grilled cheese truck? It doesn't try to also sell sushi and tacos. It does one thing, perfectly. As authors, we often feel like we need to appeal to "all romance readers" or "all fantasy readers," which is like a food truck trying to serve generic "food." Your niche isn't a cage. It's your menu. What's the specific, unforgettable dish your book serves? "Grumpy Fae Librarian" is a dish. "Generic Fantasy" is... well, it's gruel.

I did something... Check out the video below... I can't keep up with some things and making training videos is the hardest for me. So I figured out a way to have them made FOR US!! Below is a first sample, Basic Onboarding to first Chapter File. I think it still needs a little work and wasn't cheap to create (video rarely is). BUT, this was also ONE single prompt. ONE! "I'd like to create a basic onboarding video walk through of starting a first project in wordcrafter.pro. can you create this from the source code and show the mouse movements as you explain the steps? Use dynamic zooming in and out to show detailed points. always start from the full screen view" I gave it access to the github repo for the code and this is what it created. This was done with Manus.im after chatgpt failed me miserably in this task. What do you think? Should I start adding these feature by feature, or would you rather watch me stumble through video creation? I really liked the dynamic zooms