Worldbuilding Software for Serial Fiction Writers
Writers who publish their story chapter by chapter, on platforms like Wattpad or on their own site, move forward together with their readers. A published chapter is hard to take back, readers remember every detail and ask about it in the comments. yazar.io helps you keep your world consistent at a steady release pace and gives your readers a place to look things up.
The challenge of publishing chapter by chapter
A writer who finishes a novel before publishing can clean up inconsistencies in the final pass. A serial writer doesn't get that chance: if you wrote a character's eyes as blue ten chapters ago, your readers remember. A weekly schedule rarely leaves time to reread old chapters.
Keep published facts in one place
In yazar.io every character, location and organization sits on its own page with ready-made profile fields. Glancing at the pages of the characters in a chapter before you start writing it keeps you from contradicting a published detail. In the Timeline you can keep events in order and link the characters involved and the location; that way you can easily track which event happened in which chapter.
Don't forget open threads
In a long-running story it's hard to keep track of the promises you've made to readers. Keep each clue or unfinished plotline as a note and mark its status as Idea, In Progress or Used. A note linked to a character with @Name shows up on that character's page too.
Give your readers a reference
Readers coming back after a break ask 'who was this again?'. With the Shareable Wiki you can publish your book as a read-only wiki and add the link to your chapter notes or profile. Your notes are never published, and you can set the wiki to Private, Unlisted or Public. The wiki can be turned on for free, per book.
Will the wiki contain spoilers?
The wiki shows the records in your book. Adding a not-yet-revealed fact to its record only once the chapter is out, or keeping it in Notes, is the simplest way to avoid spoilers; Notes never appear in the wiki.
Will I write my chapters in yazar.io?
No. You keep writing and publishing your chapters where you're used to; yazar.io is where you keep your world, characters and notes.
Can my readers edit the wiki?
No, the wiki is read-only and only you can edit it. That way your canon always stays in your hands.
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