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, 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Writing tools
- Poetry toolsScan the meter of a line and tag a poem's rhyme scheme. Two Pro poetry tools that read your draft and never change a word of it.
- Chapter Structure PlannerPlan a story as a chain of scenes and sequels, the Swain way. A Pro fiction tool that tracks goal, conflict, and disaster and flags the gaps.
- 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.