How to play and publish Story Worlds in WriteWithPaige

Step by step

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   Step 1: Open Story Worlds

   Go to /worlds while signed in. Search with “Search worlds...” or tap a genre to filter.

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   Step 2: Open a world

   Tap a card to read its page: the description, “Opening Premise”, characters, locations and writing style.

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   Step 3: Play it

   Tap “▶ Play This World” for your own copy as a writing project, or “Play as an Adventure” to have Paige run it as a game.

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   Step 4: Publish your own

   In your book’s Story Bible, tap the globe at the top of the panel. Fill in the form and tap “Publish World”.

   

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   Step 5: Share the link

   You see “World Published!” and “Your world’s link”. Tap “Copy” and send it to other writers.

What a Story World is

A Story World is a published copy of someone’s Story Bible: their characters, places, items and lore, plus an opening premise, set up and ready to play.

When you play a world, you get your own copy. Nothing you write changes the original, and the creator never sees your story.

Worlds are for signed-in writers only. If someone sends you a world link while you are signed out, you are asked to sign up, and the world starts playing right after.

Browse and search

The /worlds page lists every shared world. Type in “Search worlds...” to find one by name or idea. Tap a genre chip to filter.

The genres are Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden, Ensemble Cast, Slice of Life, Horror, Mystery and Comedy. If nothing matches you see “No worlds found”.

A world’s page

Each world page shows the cover, genre tags and any “Content Warnings” the creator set. Below are “About This World”, the “Opening Premise”, the characters, the locations, other world elements and the writing style. At the bottom is “More worlds”.

Publish your Story Bible as a world

Open the book you want to share and go to its Story Bible. When the Bible has at least one entry, a globe button appears at the top of the panel (“Publish as a world for others to play”). Tap it to open “Publish as World”.

Publishing copies every entry in that book’s Story Bible, with their pictures. If the book has a Muse set, the first one goes along too. Your chapters are never published.

Update or hide a world

Changed your Bible? Tap the globe again. The form now says “Update World”. Saving replaces the world’s entries with your current Story Bible, and you see “World Updated!”.

The top of the update form shows who can see it. “Shared with writers” means signed-in writers with the link can read it and start their own copy. Tap “Hide” to make it “Hidden”: only you can see it, and the link shows a not-found page. Tap “Make visible” to share it again, and “Copy link” to copy its link.

If your book started from someone else’s world, Paige may offer “Share your version of this world?”. Publishing credits the original author and gives your version its own page.

Share an adventure

Adventures can be shared too. In the play screen, tap the share button (“Share this adventure”). Add a tagline and “Your pen name”, then tap “Publish”.

Signed-in writers with the link can play it from the start. Your own game stays private: they get a fresh copy, never your turns. After publishing, the button changes to “Published, copy link”, and “Your adventures” shows how many people have played yours.

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