How to Walk the Rivers

Head to Stories in the navigation bar. You'll see your own stories and public stories shared by other authors. Open one that catches your eye.

On a story's page, look for the Start Here box marked with a compass. Those are the story's entry pages — the beginnings of the journey. Pages with a small compass icon in the grid are entrances too.

Read the page — the words unfurl as you watch (tap the text to reveal it all at once). When the text finishes, choice buttons appear. Pick one to turn to the next page. There is rarely a single right path; wandering is the point.

Some pages stay hidden until you've read the pages that lead to them. If a story looks incomplete, keep exploring — new pages reveal themselves in the story grid as you earn them.

Pages you've read are marked Read and the story tracks your progress with a bar at the top. Use the bookmark button on any page to pin it, and Continue Reading to jump back to where you left off.

Every page has a comments section at the bottom. Tell the author what the walk was like — they can see and reply on each page.

Click New Story from the Stories page. Give it a title, a description, and (optionally) a cover and background image. Stories start as private drafts — only you can see them until you make them public.

From your story's page, add a chapter, then add pages to it. A page holds the prose for one scene — write it with the built-in editor, which supports bold, italics, underline, colored ink, headings, lists, quotes, and text alignment. Drag the editor's lower-right corner to make the writing area taller. Your writing is backed up in your browser as you type, so a closed tab won't lose it. Pages can also carry their own thumbnail and background image — upload one straight from your device or paste an image URL — plus an ambient audio link to set the mood.

When editing a page, add next links — each one is a labeled choice button pointing at another page. Mark at least one page as an entry page (the compass) so readers know where to begin.

A page can require other pages to be read first. Readers won't see it in the story grid until they've walked the required path — good for secrets, endings, and slow reveals. Keep unfinished pages as Draft and they stay invisible to readers.

Open the graph view from your story page to see every page and choice as a map. It's the easiest way to spot dead ends and orphaned branches.

Use Test View to experience the story exactly as a reader would — drafts hidden, locked pages locked. You can mark everything unread and replay the whole walk from the start.

When it's ready, edit the story and make it public. The analytics view shows how readers move through your pages and which choices they take. The edit story page also has an Export button that downloads the whole story — chapters, pages, and choices — as a JSON file for safekeeping.