Using Inkspace

Writing stories

Story formats, the Markdown editor, drafts, visibility and story details.

Choose Write in the navigation bar to open the editor. Give your story a title, pick a format, and start typing — Inkspace saves as you go.

Formats

Format Best for
Continuous manuscript Short stories, poems and essays — one long page.
Page only Long works and serials. Split the story into epub-style pages, each with its own publish date.

Paged stories get a table of contents, page-by-page navigation and per-page comments. Readers’ progress through the pages is saved to their account.

The editor

The toolbar inserts Markdown for you, so you never need to remember syntax:

Tool Inserts
Heading # Section title
Bold / Italic **bold** / *italic*
Quote > A memorable line
Lists - item / 1. item
Image ![description](url)
Divider ---

Use image upload to drop a JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF (up to 10 MB) straight into the text. Word count and estimated reading time update live.

Turn on the autosave indicator in Settings → Writing to see when your changes have been saved.

Drafts

Drafts update in place — saving one story’s draft never touches another’s. Each author can keep up to four drafts at a time; when you start a fifth, Inkspace asks you to publish or delete one first. Imported stories also arrive as drafts and only fill free draft slots.

Story details

Open Optional details in the editor to set:

  • Story status — Ongoing (a webnovel-style story; content updates bump it back up the feed), Completed or Hiatus.
  • Visibility — Private, Friends-only, Unlisted or Public. See Privacy & visibility.
  • Excerpt — a short description shown in previews.
  • Tags — write them as #horror #vietnamese or horror, vietnamese.
  • Cover image — upload one (up to 10 MB) or paste a URL.
  • Story font — Default, Garamond, Lato, Noto Sans, Times New Roman, Open Sans or Mono. Readers who choose Author choice will see your pick.

Set your preferred defaults for new stories — visibility, status and author font — in Settings → Writing.

Managing your stories

My Stories lists everything you’ve written with its status, publish date and last edit. From there you can view, edit or delete a story. Deleting a story removes it together with its likes, bookmarks and comments in a single step, and can’t be undone.

Writing stats

Your author page shows a writing timeline, monthly bar graphs, active days, peak day and your writing pace in words per day. Choose whether friends can see it in Settings → Privacy.