Uploading a Book
This is where a book becomes a Castwright project — the manuscript arrives, Castwright makes its best guess at structure and language, and you get the chance to correct anything it guessed wrong before analysis ever starts.
Drop a file (Markdown, plain text, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, or AZW3), paste text directly, or try the built-in demo book. Pick an analysis model here too — see Analysis & the Analyzer for what the local vs. cloud choice means.
Right after upload, Castwright shows what it detected — author, series, title, language, and a chapter list with front/back matter (title pages, copyright notices, etc.) pre-excluded. Fix anything the parser guessed wrong, then Save book and start analysis.
A screenshot of this confirm-metadata screen is tracked as a follow-up.
That kicks off the analyzer — see Analysis & the Analyzer for what happens next.
Once the cast is confirmed, two tools stay available from the book's tab bar for the life of the project — useful if the automatic split or chapter boundaries need a correction:
Manuscript — the ongoing tab covered in full on Manuscript Management: review paragraph-boundary and speaker-attribution results sentence by sentence, drag a boundary to move a cut, or highlight text inside a sentence to split it off and reassign that piece to a different character.
Restructure chapters — merge, split, reorder, rename, or include/exclude chapters. Sentence attribution and voice assignments carry across the edit.
Next: Manuscript Management, or straight on to Analysis & the Analyzer.