Inkbreaker docs
Documentation
Everything you need to know about using Inkbreaker.
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 outline, and page breaks.
- 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.
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.
- CompetitionsWeekly prompts, monthly genre sprints, and quarterly flash fiction. Enter with a piece you have written, earn XP, and see how your writing measures up.
- ForumA place to talk craft, share work, swap process notes, and get unstuck with the rest of the Inkbreaker community.
- 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.
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 comfortReading fonts for dyslexia and low vision, adjustable text size and spacing, focus mode, and keyboard shortcuts in the editor.
Worldbuilding tools
- World BibleThe home for everything you've decided about a world. Add characters, places, factions, and events as structured entries the other tools can read.
- 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.
- Consistency 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.
- Worldbuilding FAQShort answers to the questions writers ask most about worlds, entries, relationships, timelines, and the tools that read them.