Series

Finding series

Select Series on your profile. Yours lists the series you own, curate, or write into, and everyone else's public series are listed below it. If someone has invited one of your stories into a series, it appears at the top under Waiting on you.

Starting a series

Select New series.

• Name is the only required field.
• What holds it together is a short line about the world.
• Cover is optional.
• Tags say what the world is, and what a reader should know before going in.

Who can put a story on it

• People you invite: you ask an author, and their story appears once they accept.
• Anyone can offer one: authors offer their own stories, and you decide.

Who can see it

• Only the people on it: somewhere to build the series before anyone reads it.
• Anyone: everyone can find the series on the Series page. The first time you make it public, it gets its own link, and that link stays the same from then on, so you can share it.

People and roles

Nobody's story goes into a series without its author accepting.

To invite someone, select Invite people. You can add them by display name and choose whether they're a contributor or a curator. They're told you added them, and they can leave whenever they like.

You can also select Make an invite link. Anyone signed in who opens the link joins as a contributor. If you turn the link off, every copy stops working, but nobody who already joined is removed.

Adding stories

Members add a story under Add a story to this series, and it goes straight in. On a series where anyone can offer, a story from someone outside the series waits for a curator to approve it. Curators can also invite another author's story, and it waits for that author to accept.

Stories that are waiting are listed under Waiting. A curator or the story's author can take a story off the series at any time.

Canon

Canon is the series' shared characters, places, and tidbits. Curators edit it. In a series where only invited people can add stories, the canon is only shown to the series' writers.

In your story editor, the Canon section lets you copy canon into your story and edit your copy there. Changes to the shared canon don't change your copy automatically. When an entry changes, you choose the new version or keep your copy, then save the story.

To put one of your own characters, places, or tidbits forward, use Suggest something for canon in the same section. A curator decides whether it goes in, and you're told either way.

Closing a series

The owner can close a series. Nothing new can be added, but nothing is deleted. The series stays readable at the same link, and every story stays its author's.