New to Sgeulai · 2:39
Your first project
From an empty window to a manuscript with a character, a place and an event in its Story Bible, all linked from the prose. Start here if you have never opened Sgeulai.
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Learn Sgeulai
Short videos to get you going, the Help for when you're stuck, and a handbook for when you want the whole picture.
Watch · 4 videos
Tutorial videos
Short screencasts of the Mac app, with every step captioned. No sound needed.
Look it up · 44 pages
Help
Every window, tool and setting, searchable. The same Help that's in the app's Help menu.
Read · coming soon
The handbook
The long-form guide: how the pieces fit together, and how writers actually use them.
Tutorial videos
All four show Sgeulai on the Mac. Choose a step to jump straight to it.
Going further · 3:41
Inside the Anne demo
A tour of the demo project, Anne of Green Gables and its sequel, for when you know the basics: one Story Bible across two books, Continuity Check, the timeline and family charts, and the tools that measure structure and prose.
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The Story Bible · 3:41
One record, many ways in
Necessities, Worksheet and Full, the Idea Tools and Five C's' own form are different doors into the same fields. Miss Stacy's Core Values goes in through Description Web and shows up everywhere; a scene's conflict goes in through Scene Builder, and Five C's sees it at once.
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Revision pass · 2:20
Finding a sagging middle
A revision pass, from the handbook's first case study: the middle of Anne of Green Gables feels slow, so five tools go looking for why before a word is rewritten. Structure, Pacing, the Plot Board's tension curve, the Spine Report and Five C's, each read for one thing.
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Help
The Help covers every part of the app, one page per window or tool, with a search box that looks through all of it. It's the same Help you get from the Help menu in Sgeulai, so you can read it here without the app open.
The handbook
The Sgeulai handbook is the long read: seventeen chapters on how the manuscript and the Story Bible work together, what each analysis tool is for and how to read it, and worked revision passes that use several tools in turn.
Being brought up to date for Sgeulai 2.0. It will be here as a PDF.
Until then, the Help covers every feature, and we answer questions within two business days.