Journeys

A journey is the answer to "where does this character actually appear?" — inferred from the manuscript, never maintained by hand.

Writingale scans the manuscript for appearances — mentions in prose, cast lists, POV, item ownership — and turns them into an ordered itinerary through the book. Characters have journeys out of the box; any kind of thing can be given one (see Entity Types & Traits).

What a journey entry shows

Each stop lists:

• the chapter or scene and its position in reading order,
• the story time of that appearance ("Kuno's account (month 3)"),
• a POV badge when the chapter looks through this character's eyes,
• a "mentioned" badge when the character is only name-dropped in the prose rather than listed in the cast,
• the company at that stop, grouped by kind — who else is in the scene, where it happens, what objects are present.

Where journeys appear

• The inspector's Journey section (shown above) for the selected entity.
• The list column summarizes it — "appears in 11 entries" under each character.
• The timeline draws per-entity journey lanes along the time axis.

Why it matters

Because journeys are derived, they are always true to the current text. If you cut a chapter, the journey updates. If two characters never actually share a scene — despite your outline swearing they do — the journey is where you find out.