# Glossary

> The words used by Author in plain language: anchored event, strand, state, effect, snapshot, version, reader link, calendar, epoch, beat and more.

Source: https://author.geenius.io/docs/glossary/

**Anchored event.** An event tied to a scene: it happens at the scene's end, and moves with the scene.

**Assertion.** A fact a scene states, such as an age or a weekday, which the checks compare with the story.

**Bible.** The place in a book where the cast and the places live.

**Beat.** One step of an outline template, with a target position in the book.

**Calendar.** Gregorian or relative: how the book writes time.

**Cast.** The characters, places, objects, weather and organisations of a book.

**Check.** A deterministic continuity rule. There are eleven.

**Effect.** What an event does to a character: add, replace or remove a value at a path.

**Epoch.** Minute zero of the book, or the date of Day 1 in a relative calendar.

**Event.** Something that happens on a strand and changes people.

**Mode.** Whether a scene is present, a flashback, a dream or a memory.

**Outline template.** A ready-made structure that adds a structure strand with a beat per beat.

**Reader link.** A link to a frozen version where readers can comment.

**Reference.** A cast entry that points at a Geenius OS profile and its revision.

**Revision.** A counter that changes when a scene or a profile changes. A write passes it so it cannot overwrite a newer edit.

**Scene.** The smallest part of the manuscript: Markdown text with a time, a place and a cast.

**Snapshot.** Author's copy of a Geenius OS profile, so a book opens and checks offline.

**State.** What is true of a character at a moment, worked out from the profile and the events.

**Status.** How far a node is: idea, outline, draft, revised or final.

**Strand.** A thread through the book: plot, arc, mystery, weather and so on.

**Version.** The whole book frozen at one moment, with a name.