When a chapter gets something wrong

Chapters are drafts, and some will be off. There are two ways to set one straight, depending on whether it misread you or you’ve changed your mind.

It misread you: Not quite right?

1. Open the chapter.
2. Choose Not quite right? in the bar at the bottom of the page.
3. A new thread opens with the chapter’s first sentence quoted. Say what’s wrong, in your own words, and send it.

Your reply becomes an entry like anything else you write, and Cranes reads it straight away. It’s also a conversation, so you can go back and forth until the point is clear.

You’ve changed your mind: I see this differently now

1. Open the chapter and choose ⋯ beside the title.
2. Choose I see this differently now…
3. If you like, say what’s different. You can leave it blank.
4. Choose Add it.

This adds an entry saying you see it differently. Cranes weighs it with everything else and may revise the chapter or retire it.

Why there’s no edit button

A chapter is Cranes’ reading of what you’ve said, and it has to stay tied to that evidence. If you could rewrite the text directly, it would stop meaning “this is what your words show” and start meaning “this is what someone typed.” So correction goes in as more evidence, and the chapter is redrafted from all of it. When it changes, it’s marked Redrafted, with a note on what changed.

Other things that help

• If the chapter rests on something you’d rather it didn’t, open its moments, find the entry, and turn off Learn from this or choose Remove now. The chapter is rewritten from what remains. See Control how an entry is used.
• If the chapter is fine but you don’t want it in the book, archive it. See Archive a chapter or part.
• If only the title is wrong, rename it from the ⋯ menu.