Stories written together, read more than one way
Each short part is added by whoever comes next. When two people write the next part, the owner of the story can keep both, and readers switch between them.
No account needed to read. Free during the beta.
Read first
Three people wrote this story, and two of them wrote its second part.
Wren
The lighthouse keeper had run out of stories, so she wrote a letter to the moon.
Otto
The moon wrote back in three days, on paper that smelled of salt.
Wren
She smiled and put the kettle on.
Press the blue number.
A real story opens the same way, as plain text. Press a part to see who wrote it and how many liked it. Tick the box to always see that.
The story and its writers are invented for this page.
Your turn
Add the next part to the same story. This is practice, so nothing is posted anywhere.
A letter to the moon
3 parts so far. The last one:
She smiled and put the kettle on.
Now be the owner
Whoever starts a story, with a title and its first part, owns it. Two people each sent a next part, and the owner decides what happens to each.
A letter to the moon
3 parts so far. The last one:
She smiled and put the kettle on.
The kettle had just begun to sing when someone knocked on the lighthouse door.
While the water boiled, she took out paper for a reply.
An owner can set a story to accept every part without reading it first. Then the part that arrives first goes into the story, and the other becomes another version of it.
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Good to know before you write
- Accounts
- You can read without one. Writing, liking and starting a story need a pen name, an email and a password.
- Rules
- The owner of a story sets three rules: how long a part may be, whether to read each part before it goes in, and whether a writer may write twice in a row.
- Waiting
- Until the owner has read it, a part is visible only to its writer and the owner. There is no deadline, and the writer can rewrite it while it waits. The owner can also ask the writer for a change.
- Versions
- Anyone can write their own version of a part that is already in a story, and the owner decides whether it is kept, so a part can have several. The version the story goes on from is shown first. Likes do not change that.
- Ending
- The owner ends the story when it is told. A finished story can still be read, but nobody can add to it.
- No undo
- A part that is in a story cannot be changed or taken back, and only the owner can delete the story.
- Rights
- What you write stays yours. Inkline uses it only as far as it takes to show it inside the story it is part of. A story is written by many people in turn, so a part that is in a story stays in that story, without your name if you delete your account.
- Beta
- Inkline is in beta, and everything is free for as long as the beta lasts.