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The full guide to the editor, exercises, the prose engine, the community, and your Progress Report.
Getting started
- What is Inkbreaker?An overview of the platform and what it is for.
- Creating your accountHow to sign up and sign in, and what to expect.
- The editor and notebookHow to use the writing editor and the notebook.
- Finding your way around the editorThe editor toolbar, formatting and the ruler, find and replace, the More menu, the notebook panel, focus mode, the writing backdrop, typewriter mode, the outline, page breaks, and spoilers.
- Free vs. ProWhat is included at each tier.
- Importing your workBring an existing manuscript or a whole backlog of drafts into your notebook, then sort it into folders in one pass.
- Searching InkbreakerFind writers, worlds, exercises, and pieces, including by tag, and filter your results.
- Inline commentsLeave comments anchored to a passage in your work, reply in threads, mark them resolved, and choose whether a piece takes comments at all.
- Track changesPropose edits to a piece that the author can accept or reject, with every change attributed and the original kept clean until you decide.
- ChaptersSmall writing groups where you keep each other going. Up to 20 writers, optional word goals, sprints, and a feed of who showed up.
- Writing together in real timeOpen a piece for live co-editing so you and a collaborator write in it at the same time, with cursors and changes appearing as they happen.
- Solo modeHide the social side and focus on just your writing.
- Writing offlineKeep writing on a plane, a train, or anywhere the wifi drops. Your work is waiting when you reconnect.
- The mobile appWrite on your phone with the full editor, your worlds, and everything you started on the desktop.
- The desktop appInkbreaker on your Mac or Windows desktop, with offline writing and its own quiet window.
- How long a piece can be, and how fast it staysA whole novel fits in a single piece. The numbers behind that, measured rather than promised, and how to decide whether to split a book into chapters.
- The formatting barThe bar is always there, it carries the controls your kind of writing actually uses, and you can change it. Where it lives on a phone, and how to keep more than one.
Exercises and skill practice
The prose engine
Community and feedback
- Publishing your workHow to publish pieces to the community feed, share them into a Chapter, and control where they show.
- Peer feedbackHow to request and give peer feedback.
- Follows, comments, and reactionsHow community interaction works.
- Content warnings and filtersLabel your work with a rating, trigger warnings, or NSFW, and filter what you see in your feed and search.
- Chapter critiquesTrade close, line-level feedback inside a Chapter. Open one of your pieces for critique, choose the kind you want, and claim a fellow member's piece to critique in return.
- Protecting your workControl who can find and read your writing, share drafts privately, add reader protection and a rights line, and report stolen work.
- Copyright and DMCAGet authorship evidence for your own copyright claims, and report work that infringes your copyright on Inkbreaker.
- Reading heatmapSee which passages held your readers and where they stopped, shaded onto your published piece from anonymous, aggregate reads.
- CompetitionsWeekly prompts, monthly genre sprints, and quarterly flash fiction. Write a fresh piece or enter one you have, earn XP, and see how your writing measures up.
- Share your prompts with the communitySubmit a prompt for a competition or the exercise library. If it goes live, your name rides along.
- ForumA place to talk craft, share work, swap process notes, and get unstuck with the rest of the Inkbreaker community.
- The balance ruleEvery kind of feedback on Inkbreaker is free. Give a read to get a read is what keeps it that way.
- MessagesDirect messages between writers, group threads, and a casual chat for the members of a Chapter.
- Sensitivity readsRequest a sensitivity read from someone with lived experience in a specific area, or volunteer to give one.
- Beta readersFind readers for a full manuscript, or offer to beta read for another writer.
- Reading and the LibraryTrack what you are reading, browse the Library of published work, write book reviews, and pick up long reads where you left off. All in one place, all free.
- Reader credentialsYour reading track record, shown by kind on your profile, with a public page and a downloadable certificate you can share outside Inkbreaker.
Your progress
Account and settings
- Your profileYour public page: bio, featured work, community highlights, badges, and the cover and accent that make it yours.
- Privacy and your writingWhat Inkbreaker stores, what it does not, and who can see your work.
- Pro subscriptionManaging your Pro subscription.
- Images on InkbreakerHow profile images, piece covers, and reference images work, plus uploading, attaching, managing storage, and reporting problems.
- Saving and recovering your workHow autosave, version history, conflict handling, Trash, and full backups keep your writing safe, and how to get work back if you delete it or your browser closes.
- Organizing your workUse the file manager to sort your notebook into folders, move many pieces at once, and keep a growing backlog under control.
- Accessibility and reading comfortHow Inkbreaker supports keyboard navigation, screen readers, contrast, and reduced motion across the site, plus reading fonts, adjustable text size and spacing, focus mode, typewriter mode, and editor keyboard shortcuts.
- Managing notificationsSnooze the badge, turn off a notification type from the notification itself, or set everything in Preferences.
- Keeping your account safeHow to spot scams, why you should never paste code into your browser console, and the simple habits that keep your writing and your account yours.
- Cloud syncSync your Inkbreaker pieces to Google Drive or OneDrive, kept up to date automatically, in files you can open anywhere. A Pro feature.
Worldbuilding tools
- World BibleThe reading and sharing view for a world. The World Hub is where you build it; the World Bible is where you and your readers see the finished reference.
- Time WeaverBuild a world's history, place events in time, and reference them from your writing.
- Relationship WebMap the relationships between your world's characters, factions, and locations. See who's connected to whom, and what changes over time.
- The SentinelA second pair of eyes that watches your worldbuilding for slips: name drift, contradicted attributes, timeline mistakes, point-of-view drift, tense shifts.
- Entity TemplatesTemplates decide what fields an entry has. Pick one when you add a character, faction, location, or anything else to a world.
- Images for worlds and entriesHow to import images into a world, set a world avatar and cover, build entry galleries, and add cover images to world updates.
- Lexicon EngineCapture how a world's names sound as reusable profiles, then generate new names that fit the languages and cultures you've built.
- Build a Language, Start HereA gentle, no-jargon path into the Languages tool. You do not need to have studied linguistics. Borrow a starter example, coin your first words, and go only as deep as your story needs.
- Languages and ConlangsBuild a constructed language for your world: a writing system, a sound inventory, grammar, and a dictionary. Generate words that fit its sound, translate phrases, and build the whole language right inside the editor.
- Conlang Terms in Plain WordsEvery linguistics word you might meet in the Languages tool, each explained in one plain sentence with a tiny example. Keep it open in a tab so you never have to leave to look something up.
- Interactive MapsUpload a map, drop pins linked to your entries, stack overlay layers, measure distances, and nest maps from world down to city. Render it read-only on your public world page.
- Worldbuilding FAQShort answers to the questions writers ask most about worlds, entries, relationships, timelines, and the tools that read them.
Writing tools
- Poetry toolsRead a poem on every level at once in the Poetry Studio, find a rhyme that fits, check it against a fixed form, and read a draft for what to sharpen. Pro poetry tools that read your draft and never change a word of it.
- Chapter PlannerOutline a book chapter by chapter. Write a line about each chapter, start from a structure like three acts or a chapter list, and add scene structure when you want it. A Pro fiction tool.
- Journalism toolsRead a draft top to bottom for inverted-pyramid structure and track every fact you still owe before you publish. Two Pro reporting tools that read your draft and never change a word.
- Copywriting toolsWeigh every call to action across six dimensions and check your copy against the length and structure each channel expects. Two Pro copywriting tools that read your draft and never change a word.
- Screenwriting toolsCheck every scene header against the rules a script reader expects, and see how your page count falls across your acts. Two Pro screenwriting tools that read your draft and never change a word.
- The Canvas whiteboardAn infinite whiteboard for mapping a story or a world. Sketch, drop shapes and sticky notes, and draw on a shared board with your collaborators in real time.
- Inkbreaker RadioAmbient music, soundscapes, and noise for the writing session.
- Cover StudioDesign a cover for a piece or series. Start from a public-domain image or your own upload, layer title and author type over it, and export print-ready files.
- Making an EPUB or print PDF bookTurn a piece or a series into a designed, e-reader-ready EPUB or a print-ready paperback PDF in Imprint. Cover, title page, themes, chapters, front and back matter, trim sizes, and margins, previewed exactly as it ships.