Creating new drafts based on your first draft is very unintuitive and there is no tutorial on how to do so.#903

There isn’t an article in your help section for ‘How do I create a new draft based on my original manuscript?’
How Do I Duplicate My Script? Is about the closest to it but even that - if you think about - is not what a writer is thinking about when they want to move on to writing next draft of their ‘masterpiece’.

Talking about alternates and branch copies is so unintuitive. Please, please change this in new updates or least write an article under the help section to clarify what are alternates and branch copies correlating them to our regular vocabulary of drafts and revisions! Honestly, for such an industry orientated tool (and an excelelnt one apart from this, by the way), it feels like ‘developer-speak’ and not conceived in a way that is a straight forward and intuitive as the rest of the application.

Thanks for the input, Hugh – we’re currently revising our documentation and will keep this in mind when we draft a guide for revisions. I totally agree that this is currently not very intuitive – which is a shame, because I think this is actually where we deliver tons of value (especially to writers who rewrite a lot).

Great to hear that, Michi. To be honest, I approach creating a new draft with dread! I tried to use it collaboratively with some co-writers but they were so intimidated they insisted on going back to final draft.

Creating a new draft is completely safe. Just give it a shot and let us know if there are any questions. There is no way it messes with existing drafts.

@Hugh Farley did you see our guide on Draft & Revision Management? https://help.arcstudiopro.com/guides/draft-revision-management If so was it helpful?