Publishing your work

When you publish a piece, it appears in the community feed and becomes visible to other Inkbreaker writers. Your piece lives at inkbreaker.com/yourusername/piece-slug.

To publish

Open the piece in your editor and choose Share. The Share menu is where you decide who sees the piece:

• Public feed. Put the piece in the community feed for any writer to find. This is the usual publish.
• List in the Library. Add a published piece to the browsable Library of published work. This is off by default and is an explicit choice you make: a new or imported piece is never listed on its own. The control unlocks once the piece is on the public feed, since an unpublished draft has nothing to discover. Turn it on and the piece shows in Library browse and search. Turn it off and the piece stays published and readable by link, it just stops showing there.
• Your chapters. Share the piece into any Chapter you belong to, so its members can read it.

You can combine these. A piece can be on the public feed and shared into a Chapter at once.

You can add tags before publishing to help other writers find your work. Tags can include your writing type, your skill focus, or other relevant descriptors.

In the editor’s Settings, you can also label the piece with a rating, trigger warnings, or an NSFW flag under Content warnings. These help readers decide what to open and let them filter their feed and search. See Content warnings and filters.

Sharing into a Chapter only

You do not have to publish a piece to the feed to share it with a Chapter. Share it into a Chapter without turning on the public feed and it becomes a chapter-only piece: the members of that Chapter can read it, and no one else can. It does not show on your profile or in the Library, and it stays out of the public feed. This is the way to workshop something with your group before, or instead of, publishing it widely. Remove it from the Chapter, or publish it to the feed, whenever you are ready.

Published pieces are public

Anyone can read them, leave a reaction, or leave a comment. You can unpublish a piece at any time, which removes it from the feed. Unpublishing also pulls the piece out of the Library and clears its listing, so it is not quietly re-listed later: when you publish it again, turn “List in the Library” back on if you want it in the public catalog. Your submission history and metrics for that piece are not affected.

At the top of your published piece, a share button lets anyone pass it along, and if it is yours, a pencil takes you straight back to the editor.

Drafts stay private

A draft stays in your notebook, visible only to you. Submitting an exercise does not publish the piece. Publishing and submitting are independent actions.

Editing after publishing

You can keep editing a published piece any time. Your edits go into a private working copy and save as you type. Readers keep seeing the published version the whole time, so they never catch a piece mid-revision.

When the edit is ready, select Publish changes in the editor. Your readers see the new version. You then get the option to post an update, which puts the piece back near the top of the feed and tells your followers it changed. If you would rather update quietly, skip the broadcast and the new version still goes live without a notification.

For how this working copy is saved and how to recover earlier versions, see Saving and recovering your work.