Exporting Files – Sudowrite

Sudowrite offers a few different ways to export your work, allowing you to easily save individual files, projects, or Story Bible sections.

Project Export

Need to backup your entire project or share all of the documents with a collaborator? The Project Export feature is perfect for these scenarios. It allows you to export all of your documents at once as a bundled .zip file.

Project Export Purpose: Export every document in a project at once.

How to use:

On the Sudowrite home page (sudowrite.com) or within the appropriate folder, locate the project card you want to export.

Click the three dot (•••) menu in the upper right corner of the project card.

Select "Export (.zip)" from the dropdown menu.

Project Export Features:

Exports all documents within the project

Note that the export does not include the Story Bible

Creates a .zip file for easy storage and sharing

Use cases:

Backing up your entire project

Sharing your complete work with collaborators or editors

Document Export

Sometimes you only need to export a specific chapter or single document from your project. The Document Export option allows you to do just that, giving you flexibility in sharing or backing up individual pieces of your work.

Document Export Purpose: Export a single document or chapter from your project.

How to use:

Open the desired project in Sudowrite.

Select the document you want to export in the left sidebar.

Click the three dot (•••) menu next to the document name.

Select "Export (.docx)" from the dropdown menu.

Features:

Exports a single document as a .docx file

Generally preserves formatting and content of the selected document

Quick and easy way to share specific portions of your work

Use cases:

Sharing a single chapter with beta readers

Creating a standalone copy of a document for offline editing

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Note that if you’re primarily looking to export a document in order to share it with a collaborator, you may be better served by using Sudowrite’s Document Sharing functionality. Details on Document Sharing, and the collaboration feature we call Clean Copy, are available here: Collaboration Options

Story Bible Export

Neither Project Export nor Document Export include your Story Bible contents by default. Some authors choose to copy and paste those fields into a document manually in order to export them, but two sections of the Story Bible have their own Export functionalities.

Outline Export:

Click the three dot (•••) menu option in the Outline section header of your Story Bible

You’ll be presented an Export option

Once Exported, you’ll receive a two-column .CSV file with your chapter names in the left column and corresponding chapter summaries in the right column

Characters Export:

Click the three dot (•••) menu option in the Characters section header of your Story Bible

You’ll be presented an Export option

Once Exported, you’ll receive a .CSV file with all of your characters represented as rows, and all of your default and custom traits represented as columns