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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: Welcome everyone. Welcome. I am Michelle from pro-writing aid, as people are filtering into the session. Please drop your name and location in the chat. If you can see and hear me. Just fine.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: We see a lot of you coming in already from all over the globe. I see New Zealand, California, Thailand, Idaho, Italy. England, Oklahoma. We love to see such a global audience.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: It looks like everything is working just fine. So I'm going to run through just a couple quick housekeeping notes before I hand things over to Janet and Demetrius. So once again, welcome to Science Fiction writers week. We're so happy to have you here for another great session.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: Replays for this week are available on the Science Fiction week. Hub along with any slides. Special offers the schedule. All of our, you know, important information for the week you can find on the Hub.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: So the replays for today will be up by tomorrow morning. We are at the mercy of Zoom processing the recordings and all of that. So please bear with us, but they will all be there. So for today you can check back tomorrow morning, but so far you can see all of Monday and Tuesday's replays already up there, and you will have access to these until September 20 eighth. After that they will be for pro rating Academy members only.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: but you also help us continue to put on these events for free, which we love doing for our community. So if you would like to take advantage of this offer, it is available to all attendees until September 20 eighth.

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The link and all of the details are also on the hub for this.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: If you would like to keep the conversation going. We'd love to have you in our special private online writing community. You can sign in with your pro writing aid account information using the link provided here, and you can go to the live event, chat space to keep the conversation going. So come, join us there. We'd love to have you

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: reminders for today's session. If you have questions for Janet and Demetrius, please use the QA. Box. That way. We can keep them all in one spot. If you would like to use the chat to talk to other attendees today, please feel free, as you can see, it moves very quickly. We have a lot of attendees. And there's a lot of conversation happening. So that's why we just wanna keep the questions in the QA regular chat in the chat.

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and when you're chatting, be sure to select everyone from the drop-down menu that way. Your messages go to everyone and not just to us.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: So with that being said, I would like to introduce our lovely speakers that we have.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: First, we have Janet Forbes. She is a published fantasy author, game developer, and secretly of velociraptor, and has been building world since she was knee high to an Orc. In 2017 she co-founded world, anvil the top, the award winning, World building, writing, and Tabletop, Rpg. Platform, which boasts a community of over 2 million users.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: As a writer, Janet has published short fiction in several collections, was the lead author of The Dark Crystal, Rpg. Has also written for infinite black Cobold press, penny Dragon games and Tide Breaker, and is notorious for sneaking dinosaurs into every IP. She works on

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: Demetrius. Havladis has been building settings for 30 years, and has made more epic sandbox worlds than he's had hot dinners.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: He holds degrees in computing social psychology always useful for tormenting characters and graphic design, and worked as a CTO. For some of the top agencies in the UK. He left the corporate world to focus on broad anvil which is now his life's work. With his wife, Janet Forbes. He developed the ground, breaking agile world building method, and has given talks and seminars at some of the biggest conventions in the world on world building and game mastery. He loves cheese, lemon pies and top hats.

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Michelle @ ProWritingAid: Welcome, Janet and Demetrius! We're so glad to have you back.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Hello! It's so nice to be back. Thank you for having us. I'm gonna hand things over to you and just watch with everyone else.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Hello, guys, very nice to see you all today. We're representation. Janet will actually beginning the presentation. I will be joking for you if you leave what you'll be seeing on the screen. But I will say is, I know we have some people who have never heard of. Well, that's okay. Welcome. You're very welcome. We have some people who have heard of well handle, but they're not quite sure what it does or how it can be helpful.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And we have some die hard, and the lights in the chat as well shout out to you. And basically, we're gonna be covering the gamut of how well anvil can help writers. Specifically, sci fi writers cause that's what we're all talking about this week.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and then we're gonna be opening up to questions. There is no, there is no city question. Try and listen to what we're saying, but feel free to ask as many questions as you like, literally, that is what we're here for. If whether it's the basics of so what is this thing, or it's sophisticated things like, I've been trying to use this. Do you have any tips? We're open to anything we're here for, you guys? For the next hour. We are at your service

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: absolutely. And you can ask any type of question you want for one company, we can actually showcase if we will. And yeah, we'll do our best on that as well. Kind of thing. But make sure that if you ask questions, you do use the questions and answers part, because that will be actually the way we'll be coming through the questions at the end.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Let's keep it up. Okay. I think we've done it slide.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It's us you already heard you. We are basically Demetrius and I are professional world builders. Well, building consultants. We've done professional work in the game design and the normal writing space. And we're big on sci-fi finance just saying so. Yeah, we we could talk forever about how well could be used to well build sci-fi, because that's what we do ourselves as well. So we'll try and give you the Tlr of how it can help.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: What is world apple? Well, I'm gonna give you the in a nutshell version first, because when you learn, it's always good to learn in the spiral, you learn a thing, and then you go into more detail.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Well, download is a world building platform.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Think of it like your Wikipedia! Think of it like your ancestry.com. Think of it like your Google Maps. Think of it like your timelines, all for creating your own fictional world. Now, not all worlds need all of these kinds of things while exists as a set of tools for you to use what you do want to use.

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It's also a novel writing software. Once you've built that world. However, you choose to build it, you can use that integrated novel writing software in order to take the next step right? Your novel, if you're an Rpg. Fad is also a full Rpg. Campaign manager. But we're gonna be focusing on the novel writing features today, cause I think most of us here are writers rather than Rpg. People.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: If you are looking at publishing your setting and growing your readership, while amber can also be used as a marketing tool, and it's a whole creative community as well.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So that all sounds great. Where do you find it? Let's talk basics. Well, Apple is a browser based software. That means you don't download it onto your computer and save the files locally you create on your browser. Chrome. Browsers are best, by the way, so that's Chrome.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: opera, new firebox works quite well, doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. So all of these kinds of browsers, it exists on the Internet. Your stuff as we'll talk about later is backed up in a in loads of different places to make sure you never lose your work. And we'll go into all of the details about this later. Essentially, it lives online. Your things live in the cloud. It exists

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: on your browser. That is how you access it. You can use it from your phone via the browser. It's best on a laptop or a computer.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That is how you sort of get into world apple, as it were, and that's what world apple is in a nutshell. When I describe it to people who have no idea what the kind of stuff that we do, you and you and us? I always say, if Tolkien was sitting down to write the load of the rings right now, this is where he'd store the Hobbits. This is where he'd store his maps. This is where he'd store all of those notebooks of history, and it's where he'd write those novels and cross reference all of that information as well.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I've done, I think, with that. So that is in a nutshell. What we'll level does and how it works. Let's talk about that more detail.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Oh, I always forget about this slide.  it's good to know where we've come from.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: so I'll tell you a little bit about where? Well, anvil came from. And yeah. So back in 2,017, I was writing a fantasy novel, and it was one of those massive world fantasy novels with hundreds of characters and all of this world building 2 different sets of deities. And I had a Google document

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: that was the Google document from hell. It was 101 pages long.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It crashed all the time. It was a nightmare, and because Wells are not linear wells are beautiful nexuses of complex interconnect information. If you don't believe me, just go look at Wikipedia. Everything is connected to everything. It's amazing. That's how fictional worlds work as well. And so a Google document or any linear format is the worst way to store

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: developer world. It's completely non-native to the way that world building works.

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And this particular Google document got so big that it crashed all the time. It got so big that parts of information here did not line up with parts of information here because it was completely linear and it it didn't make sense anymore and itself. And I took this thing to Demetrius, and I said, This is a nightmare. Look at what I'm dealing with, and he said.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I will build you a thing.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and that thing turned out to be well annual. So that's really where it came from. It was built by us because of our love of world building, because there was nothing at that time to do what we needed to do. And so that's why we built it. We built it. We use it every single day for our own writing, for our own professional projects.

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And there are 2.5 million other people using it as well. So there's a big old community of people who have found a home on World Andville, and they built their own worlds. That that's what kind of where it came from.

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Let's talk about the world building bit.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I've covered this.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I mentioned that it is genre agnostic, which means it works fantasy and sci-fi and historical fiction, all gaslamp fantasy, or

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far future hard military sci-fi. We have one world. It's just entirely fish

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: people that people are awesome. People make crazy worlds, the world Science fiction worlds. I'm sorry, you know that was my first blog. Right?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Science Fiction. No, no, my first blog ever is called Sci fi. Oh, that's cute! Yes, and the whole like logo of the blog was a dolphin with

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: a a glass hit on his hair kind of thing. So yeah, anyway.

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we digress. As I said, we do love world building. So let's start by talking about the world building part of it, because that's really the core. The first core of the of the software.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It starts with the world building matter.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: what is the world building matter? This is a special tool that we have developed for you guys, you go to the site and you click the little eye. It is full

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: of questions to help you nail down what your setting is all about. So this is stuff that we have used.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And we have developed to help you build your settings from the ground up. If you just have a vision of it. If you're not sure exactly what is your building yet, this will help you to find that. And if you already have a setting, this is gonna help you define the DNA of it and make sure it's really focused and doing what you want it to do. I have used it both ways when I'm writing my own original work, I'll use it from forward.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So back I use it to develop the core concept of my setting and make sure that it's staying on scope.

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and I've used it retroactively when I worked for for the dark crystal franchise I use the Meta to go through and define what the setting of the dark crystal was all about. I used it as a diagnostic tool, and I used it as a

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: as a tool to help me understand how to build in this world what that really meant. So it really can be used both ways. You already have a setting can be very useful if you don't have a setting yet. It can also be very useful. There's a lot of guidance in here that really helps you nail down from the top to the bottom while you're building the world. What's important in the world?

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Your genre bundle the the key people that live in the world the key, important historical events. So really, that first sketch of the world.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: if you want to happen in this specially designed tool that we have created for you guys. And once you have an idea and you're starting to well, build those big things in more detail, we have a full suite of well, building templates so on web apple

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I mentioned, while Apple can be your Wikipedia right? A lot of that writing. That world building notation happens in articles which is like an article on Wikipedia. So do me if you can show the the world building templates. Thank you so much. These are your options. Each one of these little buttons

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: leads you to a template that is specially designed for building that thing. Why don't we go for a character template?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: We wrote this, we love our characters.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So in a template you have this whole free space at the top. You have a title. You can write whatever you would like in this free space at the top. And then

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: it has an absolute ton of props for the character one think of it like a character questionnaire.

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It's full of questions that you can optionally answer in order to develop the thing that you're building. Further, in order to think about it. Further, we have these 4 organizations. If you're building sci-fi, you might be building Mega corporations. You might be building space militaries. You might be building space academies. These are all organizations, and we have a ton of prompts that will help you build those in more detail.

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You might be building space geography like we were talking about yesterday for those of you who came to our talk about aliens, because aliens are awesome. In which case you can use the species simply to me. It's just filling in species link here on the character article. But you can go and fill in a whole

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: template that helps you define that species further.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: All of this is optional. You do not have to put this stuff in, and you can also say, I want to do these props. But I don't want to do those props. It's all there to serve you. Okay, not the other way around. So you can choose what you wanna do, and, as I say, everything is tailor made by world building experts in order to help you facilitate you and support your imagination and your own creation.

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You can see the character templates especially has a lot of prompts. This is because characters are really important in world building, especially for writers. and because carrots have have a lot of different facets that might be important. And, by the way, if you're creating guns in your side world, you also have a whole tab dedicated to that, too.

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So that's really the world building template, part of world ample. It goes without saying, you can auto link these things together. You click a button, and it will scan through your document and say, these are all the links we think we find in your text. You can put images, you can embed sound. You can go absolutely crazy if you want to, with formatting. There is so much that you can do.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: but what I always advise in general is to keep these things pretty simple, because this is your world building, not your novel. So use this to help you use this to support you in your world building and write things down that you need to write down to start with. We'll talk more about showing it to other people later.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Sorry. Sorry

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: there's a lot on the slide. Sorry building slow and connect connections. I've talked already about that automatic automatic creation, do we? Can you click in the bottom right for me.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So let's say Demetrius wants to write about my beloved pet whilst he's writing the article about me. He's gonna click that perfect button.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and it's going to be able to create parallelly a second article whilst he's creating the first article.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is because, as I said before, well, building is not linear. And we are world builders. So we know this. We know that sometimes you'll be creating one thing and you wanna create another thing at the same time, and then you can link it in as well. Once the metrics is click, create article, will be able to copy the little code of this and paste it in the other one, I was gonna say, or you can just use the app mentioned system. That's at the 3 method le letters

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: like you do on social media in order to link this in. It's designed to be as quick and as seamless

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as possible, so that you could focus on what's important, which is your creation and your well building? I like Jimmy is my pet. I am here for it. By the way, very much. Enjoy this. The other thing that you can do from the screen in terms of parallel processing is the previewer. So, Jimmy, can you open the preview for me.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That's the argument. That's the previewer. So with this little box, you can also search your entire world and reference it so I might want to check what I've written about Dimi.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I can look at the quick view, or I can even edit and add things to it. As I am writing my first article again. This is how we work as creators. We do not create one whole thing and then create another whole thing. Well, building is all connected. And we've created a software that helps you actually replicate that process.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Next, because I could go so many different ways from here.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  full world tech search and quick world access it. It goes without saying. Of course, you can search your entire world.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You search everything in there really, really, quickly. It's it's an advanced search. It will search as you can also tag your articles. You search for the tags. It will search for the titles. You will search through the text inside

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: quickly. Find absolutely everything. That's that's the plan. Right? If you're creating a will, you need to reference it quickly. You can quick search and of course, if you are writing with other people, I know there are a lot of writing teams out there. In love sci-fi the rights of the expats. Very, very famous, well known and successful writing team. We have co-authoring options, which means you can build worlds and access your stuff with your team and work together.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It's possible it's easy. It'll work together. Everybody's stuff is their own. It's all very clear. Yeah, give me literally. Just

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: so. I will now have terms to the world, and you can add authors at different levels as well, so you can add them as a full co owner or an editor, which means they have access to edit stuff, or as a writer, which means they have very limited access. It's entirely up to you how you want to do that.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So in terms of articles.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That is how you create them. And the basics of that world building flow. As I said, you can go very, very far. If you go to the discovered, you want to show one of the the cathedrals articles.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is one of the kind of like spectacular articles on World Annual.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I think the character is a great example. It's just opening now.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So this is how far you can go. You can see, there's they've embedded images. They've used quotations, they have absolutely turn this into a work of art. This is all their own original imagery. By the way, this person is incredibly, incredibly talented and skilled. The world is your oyster with regard to how you want to present this, and how you want other people to see it.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: But in very simple terms. It's also very quick and easy to use, which is kind of what we're what we're trying to do for you guys is create a tool that is very easy. But you can go verify if you do wanna share and present things to other people.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So that in a nutshell is articles well as your poster, you can keep them simple. You can write them really quickly. They all work together and connect together.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: but you can also get perfect.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Let's talk about other things that world builders need like timelines. For example, if you're well building sci-fi, the chances are, and many of us do this. We start with us as we are right now and then we extrapolate into the future. How did we get there. Actually, this is Denny's version of that in his world. How on earth did we get to this future that we have landed in?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So that is that is something that is very easy to put together. And again, you can see these orange things. These are links to articles, and again pop up so you could see them really easily from here. Imagine if, for example, you'd written your novel. But you want to give people a quick history. Want to give your readers the quick history, or even you just wanna remind your own sodding brain of the quick history of your world.

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This is very easy to put together. You create some

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: some events. They automatically create these boxes. You can choose the icons and quick as you like. You've got a timeline which you can reference. Timelines are super awesome. A lot of people think that that are me for fantasy. But

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: sci-fi is all about timing. Am I right. It's all about. When was the technology invent invented? When did this space worker? These are so critical? So if you do have a world where time is important. Timelines are going to be your friend. And this is another way that you can track time. This is actually what we call a chronicle, an advanced timeline. So

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: this is a timeline that also has a map, because sometimes in your well building, you don't just want to show

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: when something happened. You wanna show where something happened as well. So in this you can see that there are parallel bar. So you have all these parallel events spanning over time. The map will refocus on the PIN. That you've just decided is important. And again.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: this is something that you can build for yourself. I use this to plot one of my novels. At 1 point I used it to literally plots out the scenes because it was a novel that happened over the course of a whole year, and I needed to know where and when things were happening was very useful for that. It's also a great showcase. If you wanna share things with other people. If you wanna explain to people you know a little bit about the precursor a little bit about your world history.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So credible do have maps in them. But we also have an interactive maps feature. So it's important to mention that world ample is not in map making software. The reason for this is that when you say map.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 100 people have 500 ideas of what that looks like, and everybody wants something different. Quite frankly, there are lots of very good map making software out there that are only map making software, that is all they do. They do it very, very well. We would not want to create a pale imitation of that. So once your image is created by whatever means you like, and if you like, some map making software suggestions, we can give those in the end. Please ask a question about that.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can start creating interactive pins I mentioned. Well, Amber can be your Google app maps. And this is what I mean. Denny has a beautiful mapping. He actually made this one himself, and you can create a PIN

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can fill in the form for that PIN, and basically add all of your information to your map. which means that you will have a thing that you can reference. You'll be able to track journeys that people are taking. You will be able to track who is in possession of what, how far it is to go somewhere. These are all super important things. When you are dealing with sci-fi, the who, what, where? When becomes much more complicated on these massive distances, and trying to figure out which alien species is.

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you know, evolving, next to which other alien species and what kind of interactions they might have had, and what kind of animosity they might have between them. This is all so much easier when you can visualize it and quickly cross reference it and tag your notes to the map.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That's why things become easier. And that's what our interactive mapping software is all about. And, by the way, you don't just have to use it for maps, you can use it for any kind of image. So if you have really cool bio armour. And you wanna put pins on the different parts to explain what they do. You can easily do that. Exactly the same software. It's as simple as dropping in and a little interactive pink.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and then adding a description or adding an article, whatever you choose, and you can end up with these spectacular maps that really help you track what's going on the story, and really help your readers explore your world as well. This is so much better than that spider little map printed in the front of a paper back. Don't get me wrong. I love maps, but that is not the optimal way to display them.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So this is something that is spectacularly useful when you're dealing with sci-fi. because a lot of sci-fi is about the relationships between different groups.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: whether those are species groups or organization groups like nations or in this case it's Mega corporations that Demetrius is displaying. This is a diplomacy tree

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I should say rather diplomacy web. When Demetrius is mastered about appis, as you can see, it shows apples relationship to every other organization that it has a relationship with

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is really helpful to track when you're like, oh, how does this tiny little sect feel about these people? Because now I wanna write a short story about these sets, and I can't remember what I said about them. You just you just set it up. And again Demetrius is showing you how the backend looks.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It's a very quick little phone that you essentially add a diplomatic relationship, and just add the 2 organizations and how they feel about each other. And then it just propagates. And what's that's created? You can drop it into any article. So what Demetrius just did that is, he copied the little code. This automatically generated by our software for you. And then he dropped into an article.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And our software can read that. That is a code that needs rendering a special way when it showed on the front end.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and then it just does it for you. A lot of people are like, I need 8 more of me to do all the things. The whole point of well anvil is that it actually speeds these things up. Imagine, if you had to create all of this by hand.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Imagine, if you like, had your icons, and you wanted to show all of these kinds of diagrams that would take so long right? But this is something where, literally, you just go. Blem, blem, blem, blm, blm, blem, blem in the form, organization, auto organization, relationship, organization, relationship. And you can build one of these

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: in 20 min. Pretty easy. This is not. Gonna take you a lot of time, and it's also easy to edit and update as things change as your world changes, because that's one thing about wells, right? The best worlds. They progress and they change over time. And that's something that's very easy to update and keep

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: fresh and well done, Boswell.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: We also have a family tree system. Do you have a family tree here?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  no, no! But that's actually no. I wanna talk about this. So you're saying that. And you're like, Huh, that's great. But I don't have a diplomacy problem because I'm not writing that kind of side. I'm writing like,

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: oh, okay, yeah, I'm gonna get. That's me. By the way, basically, it's gonna get himself a family tree. So again some of you might be sitting there thinking, I don't need family troops. In that case this is no feature you need to worry about on well handled.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: If at any point you're like, I need family trees. Suddenly they become important. Now there was a question about my parents' parentage, or who their grandfather was for something that is assignment to crack out the family trees.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and that's very typical of well, handle. A lot of people start with well handle, and they feel like there are a lot of features here. I don't know where to start. We will be talking more about where to start. If you guys have questions, please throw them in the chat as well. But the most important thing is that you start with what is important for your world

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you start with where you are, and you do not feel the need to use features that you don't need. Why would you do that? Why would you grab a spanner when all you need is a hammer. So use what apple in the order that you need to build the things that you need how to get to know your book? Actually, yes.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: absolutely. Yes. So this is a very quick, simple family tree. If these character articles had character images, they would automatically populate in those little circles. So you have little faces there instead.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And this is a very quick, easy way again, like with the diplomacy web. So we've tried to do is make the software do the hard work for you. So instead of having to arrange things and make them all look pretty and some kind of like a soft paint style document.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You just input the data and the software, arrange that all for you. And that means, as more data goes in, it will also automatically arrange it for you. And that's the whole idea of something like well, Angle is that it does the job for you. It does the heavy lifting for you. So you can't focus on what you want to do, which is the fund that the creation and the writer.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: We talked a lot about well building. There are a lot more well building features if you need them. Some people need a lot more world building features than others. Some people need loads and loads and loads of maps, but they don't need timelines, for example. That's fine. But your world building. You're not doing it wrong if you're doing it your way. And it serves your story. I think that's really really important to say, hey, nice!

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: My daddy looks cool. Can I just say he's got a stick and everything? so what do we just did right? There is is create very quick family tree. You have seen exactly how quick it can happen. I've been yammering all about funding trees. It means already.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So many of us are writers. I'd love to hear. Actually, guys, are you a writer? Can you write in the chat if you are a writer and what you write. Are you a short storyist? Are you a novelist? Are you writing scripts? Are you writing?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: the Rpg. Campaigns? Tell me, tell me what kind of thing you are working. I would really like to hear that

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: lot of authors, lots of novelists in here. My people. very exciting. Okay, so we do have a lot of screenwriters on. Well, Handbook, for those of you who are talking about about being screenwriters. And it's a great place to keep that World Bible, that series Bible. But what I'm gonna show you right now is our novel writing software.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And since Hg. Wells is no longer in copyright, I have used Hg. Wells as an example of a novel, because Jimmy is not the novelist, and we wanted to use Jimmy as well. So this

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: is our number rating software. Jimmy, can you click the handbook and just pop in the the side for me? There we go. So you may be thinking

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: it looks pretty straightforward. It can, in fact, look more straightforward if you would like it to. So what you're seeing right here right now is the body of text in the middle. That's our seams on the left hand side you can see the chapters and scenes organized, and you could drag and drop those around as you want, you can easily create more. This is something that's very, very quick and easy to do.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: On the right hand side. You're seeing the information about the item that has been selected. And in this case, that is to see. So you can see, could you go back to that first thing? That's okay? So on the right hand side, you can see this is space for synopsis. This is really useful when you want to get that 100 foot view of your writing when you want just a really quick. This is what this thing is in 10 words or less. And Demi, can you go to review for me.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: so can you click on the the main. There we go. so you can see here that you can see if you want to. All of the synopsis here, and get that 100 foot view very, very easily. You can also see their published state. Are they published or private? You can see if they're public or private. You can see any labels that you've chosen to put in there as well. So this is really really useful, for example, marking if something has been edited already, or if it's still the first draft, or if it's gone to the second draft.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  I want to click around. Can I click around now? Thank you. The other feature that I particularly like

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So this allows you to not edit. I don't know how many of you have this problem, but for me as a writer, when I read back through my own work to remember where I left it. I start furiously editing, and I don't always want to do that because it stops me from writing the next bit.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So if you have that problem like, I have that problem. You can skip to the read mode, and this allows you to read without being tempted to edit all the time. It is very, very useful for me. I can see in the chat there are a lot of other writers saying, Yeah, that's me. That's absolutely me. So that is a feature. Yeah, we know writers because we are writers. So we have built this with writers in mind.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Let's take another little look at this right hand side. You can see here that there's while this the introduction, which is sorry. Well, there's a synopsis which is available from that long view. There's also notes. This is where I write my edit notes. So if I'm reading through something, I absolutely feel I have to write something in this mode I will add notes, but also sometimes, when I'm in the right mode.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And I'll take you to that right now you want to write a note. You might wanna write a a reference or something. You might wanna write the the quotation that inspired this section. It's a note specifically for this scene. I do this all the time when I'm trying to. I write a lot of fiction or fantasy fiction, and when I'm trying to, you know, create a puzzle. I'll write the inspiration for

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: puzzle in the notes, so I can go and find that later and not lose that inspiration. There's specifically time to receive. This is something that has been so useful for me.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You'll see under tags. You can tag any scene which makes it immediately easier to find you can add labels. These are by default, these colors. But you could also very, very easily adjust those colors and the titles. Yeah, absolutely

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: depending on where I am in the writing process to help me quickly identify which scenes are at which stage or which chapters are. At which stage and how quickly. So what do we showing you right now is actually super important. On the right hand side. This is your ability to customize software. You could change the background. I write with light green. It's great. I love it. Other people hate it. You wanna write them yellow.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You can change that here, and you can either just right in the name of the color, or you can use hex code. And right in very specifically the tone. You want to do exactly the same with the font.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You can run black, or you can color the font. You can do the font size. You can change the Font family. You can change the way paragraphs work. You have a lot of ability to alter and change the way the interface looks. Because we operators, we can be fussy about things. So this is a great way to make sure that we have already space. Exactly how we want it to have.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: There is no judgment. There's only help. You can see some other things on the right hand side, too. You can see some statistics. You can see. I input, this on Tuesday.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can. Add again, this is more for the publication site. When you, if you choose to publish, you can share your Patreon, you can share your Kofi. You can allow only certain people to see. Talk more about that in a minute, and

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can also export. So if you don't wanna publish in World Annual, you can export and publish wherever you want. Obviously, everything that you own is yours. That's not even a question. We will talk in detail about that later. But your writing is your writing. Do whatever you want on it. You can develop it in world anvil. You can publish it on World Anvil, or you can publish it elsewhere instead.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  Can we please go back to us?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can select your related characters, locations, items, and other articles. Again, you can type in well, apple articles, for here.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: manuscript so much, and that is the search. So do you remember those features I talked about before. First of all, the I'm I'm so sorry. First of all, this quick button

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: which means that when you're writing your novel and you invent something, and all you want to do is add the title. But you already have an idea of what it is, and you wanna make notes about that. This is where your well well, articles come in. So maybe you say, Oh, it's a dingle Hopper.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and somebody says a dingle Hopper. And you're like, yeah, I'll explain later. And that's what the characters are saying to each other. But you you already know what a dingle Hopper is, and you need to make a note of that. So you crack this open right the cycle of your article. You make your notes about the dingle Hopper, and you press create, and it is then there, of course, it's also the previewer. So later, when you're like, Oh, I wrote notes about Dingle Hopper. What on earth is that you can type in here, you will be able to view

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: your notes, and you will also sorry, be able to quick. Edit them directly in here when you come up with more world building because you are writing, and that is when the details of your world come to you.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I'm a writer. This is how it works for me. I wanna make sure that you can still be adding details of your world to your novel and vice versa. These things happen in different times for different writers. The whole point of World Angle is that the flow works for you, and with you, however, your process works, there's also a full search up here. We even search your whole manuscript.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and you can also search your whole world. So you can see our system was a good one. Actually.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can click on this and find it here as well. So if you don't prefer the model window, or if your screen size is a little bit limited, you could also have it here and again there is that quick edit so that you can add to your world as you are creating, because creation does not follow linear rules. Creation is wild, and we need to make sure that we have robust tools that support that creation

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: for me. This is gold when I am world building and writing. This has been so important for me, and so I give to you somebody mentioned plotting. Now, there are several different ways to plot on world apple. Actually, I would say, there are 3 main ways to plot on world apple.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Some people prefer to have their plot all in a separate place by itself. In that case we have a dedicated World Annual plot article that is full of prompts to help you

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It is, of course, referenceable, as all articles are from the novel writing screen, so you can have it up in a model window as you're writing, but you can have it up on the top of your manuscript while you're writing, if that's how you choose.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: If you are more of a visual plotter, we have a full whiteboard software as well. You can use this software to use sticky notes. You can PIN in articles. You can create shapes. You can free hand draw. However, you like to create plots. You can create plots using a whiteboard software that pulls directly from the articles in your world

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: because you've already done that work. Why would you do it anywhere else? The whole idea with World Angle is that it pulls everything together for you. So that is a character article. And you might have, for example, a bunch of character articles you want to PIN, and then you can write together as well.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  again, you can put in sticky notes, shapes, free hand drawing. Whatever it is that you think is, gonna be useful for you to create the plot. I know a lot of people like that kind of big plotting approach. It's good for the Snowflake approach as well, because that's also very visual. Anything like that.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And the third way of plotting.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I don't know if anyone else here is a fan of plot tables. They can be very useful. I personally love them.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You can create rudimentary tables in manuscripts. So the way I do my plotting is, I open manuscripts and create a basic table in one of the scenes at the top, and that is what I use to create my plots. Right now. I use plot tables within my manuscripts, and then again, the whole world is there at my disposal to draw on. The information that I need. The whole point again is that people work differently and the software supports them.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So we talked a lot about normal writing. I've probably talked too much about normal writing. Sorry we've talked about exporting your manuscript as well, and there is a host of options for that, and

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I think we should probably talk a little bit about showcasing the work for others. So a lot of you are right now at the I'm building a world. I'm writing a novel stage, and that is awesome.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That is absolutely great. I've already shown you a bunch of ways that love apple can help you with that. But we'll have this also an incredibly powerful marketing tool and community.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: one of the first things that I should probably show you is the fact that you can, if you want to publish your books directly on world ample. 3 interest. I'm gonna find you a link of the praying prejudice that I,

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Dave, can you? Okay, that would be great.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So this is an example of a book that has been published

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: in World apple, and it's an example also of how, if you want to, you can monetize your work directly on world apple. So this is prime prejudice. No, I did not rent it. But if you open it up, you can see that there is a whole story there. Can you continue to? Yeah, exactly.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I've also, by the way, embedded an audio file because there are lots of people out there who love stories, but they cannot read, or reading is very tiring font for them, my husband included, and they love audio books. So what you can see here is this is an entire browser based ereader that allows people to read directly from a browser

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: the number of authors who've told me simply getting people to download a free e audio book or a free ebook is an absolute nightmare, and this is something that bridges that gap very easily.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This. What do me showing you right now is a wonderful way to show that there is more material that they have not got access to. And you can see Jimmy circling that little padlock there. What this means is very important concept for world

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and there's a special category of things that you can give exclusive access to the people you choose. That might be the people who are backing you on Patreon. That might be the people who have bought your book. There are a variety of different ways to give access from allowing people to input a code and access it themselves. And you can give them priority access to things

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: to allowing people to inputting emails and being able to quickly do that via Csv, so you can put a whole bunch of them very, very quickly. There are so many different ways to give people access, but the crops there the ability to give exclusive access means that well, ample can. If you want to become a place that you sell the products.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It's also a very powerful way to showcase and build a community.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So, for example, if you have a Jvm novel coming out, and actually, if you go back to Shire Fox, that's a very, very good example. Shy red Fox is a best Amazon bestselling author this. On the top left is her book guardian, too.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is how she did it. She built a beautiful world on world ample, and when people asked her about what she was writing, she sent them to that world. No, the book was not out yet, but there sure was a place where people could learn more about it. They could read a little bit about the characters. They could get a feeling for the world, and they could sign up for the Newsletter

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: cause we're all should be building our newsletters. They could explore what she was busy with. It was a place that she could push notifications to. She could use this, and she did use this very well for her whole social media work, because she'd already done the work, building the world to write the books. So then, she just use that work. We use that work on her social media to share what was going on right now to get people

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: excited to get people asking questions, and that is how she built her community and her following. And this is such a strong way to do it. So there are a lot of possibilities there. You can create discussion boards and have your own little forums on your world. You can post your yeah Urls to social media with a screenshot and get people going to your world writing comments, asking questions.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is such a great way to get people excited. And this is a great example of one of our world ample of actually, this, this author is not just a very good author. He's also a literary professor like his job is teaching writing to other people.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: creates books and transmedia, and all sorts of other really cool stuff here. And I think he also has a Patreon where people, if they want to, can back him and get like little bits of extra secret content that nobody else has access to. And that's a really nice way of having a small income stream that keeps going every month

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and having a way to reward your super fans and having a way to have a single location to aggregate all of your books and stuff. I can see Dimi scrolling through the list of questions, and it is big.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Why don't you go back to the slide? 15, if you've been counting

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 1415 next one security. So I saw some questions about this, but it's very, very important to talk about security. Your work

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: is your life. So I'm gonna let the CTO talk about security. Because this is a technical thing. The technical people should talk about. Okay? So the number of security is in terms of data protection. Essentially. Yes. Okay. So first of all, you on your stuff, we have, no claims over copyright, and you can actually find in terms of service as well. Everything that you do. It is yours.

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We have full responsibility and full availability and accountability for everything that you do. But also it's just completely you have full ownership for the thing. We do not moderate copyright if you're using somebody else's copyright unless we receive a Dmca from somebody else. Oh, again, we are not an authority. We're we're just hosting the content

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: in terms of security of your content. Of course you can at any point download, and we show before the manuscripts that you've read. But you can also export your walls entirely. We actually just about releasing new export of actually, he has even more things on the previous now, but also in terms of the actual backups backed up every

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 3 h in 7 different locations across the globe. So unless the call won't explode this point, nobody will care. Anyway, your data is safe. Simple as that.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And of course, at the end I'll try and said before, in terms of copyright, if somebody ever comes claim, since any ownership over your work, or anything like that, we can legally provide proof of date of creation for you in, you know, in court, for anything like that, because we do keep actually locked backups for the dates. So what that means is, if somebody takes a work we can provide proof of when you wrote it. We can say

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: this world was created at this time, and this article called This was created at that time, and we will go to that for you and give you that information so that you can share that and contest that. But so if there's ever a question like that, you just come to us. You ask us.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: we will provide the data that proves that's your stuff. Because that's really important to us. Your stuff is your stuff. As I said, we are both creators. We love our work, we take it very seriously and do it professionally. We know that you guys feel the same way. So you know, that's how well that works. It's the least that we can do.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I just deleted a slide. Oh, no, we're fine. We also have a community of

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 2.5 million people in 6 years. It's pretty wild for the wild ride guys. It is incredibly friendly. Some people feel like online communities are not for them. They're not interested. That is fine. There is no pressure to be part of the community. If you want to be part of a creative community.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It is supportive, it is kind. People are tolerant and uplifting. We run challenges to help inspire you. We've had competitions as well. We give a lot of opportunities to our members, particularly the ones that are active in the community. We run a lot of interviews and seminars, we have a whole podcast so if you go away today and you're like, what am. I looks great. But I don't think it's for me.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You can still go check out all podcast. That's a world apple. Well, building. Podcast. We have had so many incredible writers on that Mary Robinette, kowal, gale character. Brian Mcclellan, best selling authors in

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: all all the spec fix genres have come and talk to us and given us their expert advice. All of that is available online as well. We do that for the community to inspire the community.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: if you are using the sage tier, that's the professional tier. We also offer some promotional opportunities as well, because your success is our success. Our success is your success. So if you are a professional on the sage tier. We will give you opportunities to, for example, publish a blog with us when your book comes out, or come on a live stream. When your book comes out, or any of these kinds of things, we wanna celebrate what you're doing. We think it's amazing. So if you like, the sound of that that is a sage, but as well

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: so, which is very, very true. Well done. He has been built in November 1,017. Since then he's done. He's gone through so many iterations. But officially we're still in Beta. We will be going out of Beta, probably by the need of next year, because for the last 7 years we've been gathering information understanding how we can make the best software for you.

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And we are currently the last year or so secretly into the process, completely redesigning the whole of the software. We will be soon be doing a part of the release for that, and you'll be seeing a lot more about that. Everything we should do right now. Timelines, chronicles, maps, are being completely redesigned, so timelines are about to get a new version within the next month maps are about to get the new version by the end of a year. Kind of thing.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So we're continues to become better and better on this. And we're doing our best to actually listen to you and do things that will make your work easier, faster and better. Yeah, absolutely. We have made it. Our life's work to make a thing that works for you guys. So we spend our life listening to you guys listening into your feedback and trying to make it better. So that is what you get

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: we've talked a lot about. Well, Downville, it's time to answer some of your questions, cause there are a lot of questions there, and I think that's really important.

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I wanna start with this one from Lucy, because I think that's really important. So Lucy says. And I've seen a lot of people saying it. I have one handful. There are many wonderful things.

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and I became a bit overwhelmed. Do you offer class that would walk me through to learn to use this. Yes.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: yes, so we are just now launching webinars which take you through different bits of world handle in a slow, friendly, easy to use way they take through a bunch of different use cases. So if you're brand new to a feature, and you want some help learning to use it, we have a whole set of webinars that we are currently developing and publishing coming out right now. That will help you learn to use the features. We are also

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creating courses to guide you through the features. So that's a different way. People learn in different ways. Some people like the hands on interactive approach of a webinar. Some people prefer the learn at your own pace course style. And of course, we already have full documentation as well. So we're gonna be doing a lot more education, guiding through through people, through not just technically how the tools work, but different ways that you can use them to achieve. What's

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you guys want to achieve. This is what my team is working on right now. I am super excited about it. I love helping people do the thing. So yeah, it's Kevin.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  How do you wanna do? Well, to go from the start and go down? There was a question here about Jenniferty, and I thought, here I saw here actually answering, asking questions about that, just to put your mind at this first of all. Now, if you need your membership, if you do not lose your content. Your content might be locked if it was private, so you cannot actually edit anymore. There are limitations, of course, in the free tier, but the content is still there, and even if you like, like

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 10 years in the future you want to come back. It will still be there unless you delete it or tell us delete it, you will still be there. You can just go. Continue what you're doing, for I've seen a bunch of questions about membership. So should we talk very quickly about that. So on one you can sign up right now and create account for free

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: free accounts have some limitations because we have to keep the lights on guys. So you can try world, you can test out a bunch of stuff we are hoping in the future to release more stuff for free, so that you can try it out. That's what we want. But of course the paid memberships are the ones that keep the lights on. We love our team. We pay our team that has to keep happening. Obviously. So there are paid memberships as well.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: my share one time now, because we've kept so many amazing stories from people. But we wanted to make sure that people who want to write continue right, because it's very important for people to have a creative

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: outlets for us as creative, so important. So our price are are frozen, and that is the annual price is way less than the month price right now. Absolutely. So.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: We have 3 paid queues. We have, master, which is where I always suggest people. Stop, start with the master. See how it works for you grow into them, the master

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: the master tier right now. I'm sorry my brain is gently gooping at my ears. The master tier right now is what I would recommend for writers. It gives you access to the normal writing software and manuscripts, no sorry and family trees and whiteboards, and all of those useful features that writers really need character, centric features, planning, plotting features, all of that stuff would be a master tier.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: grandmaster is, gonna be the tier for you. It gives you more access to sharing exclusive content with other people, which you do by subscriber groups. If anyone's sitting there amount actually, which becomes viable. So in effect, if you use the full depth of a grandmaster tier with a hundred subscribers, and you are only getting

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: $2 per person your wherever coffee you are already covering your subscription about fivefold.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So that's why we sort of done it that way. And then for people who are professional writers, they want a very sleek look. I would recommend the sage tier that gives you white labeling, so you can strip the world apple branding from your world, but gives you the ability to have your own URL so to can you type in wanted hero.com in the URL platform. So wanted hero dotcom.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is another one of our Amazon best-selling authors, by the way. not a sci-fi profit.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: doesn't necessarily look like, Well done. But this is world ample. This is one of our sage tier users. He has his own URL redirect. He's completely redesigned as well to look the way he wants it. Sage gives you a bunch of other features. We do monthly seminars on creation.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: professional things like user journeys and brand identity, and how to use social media, and what is SEO and how to launch a book, and how to take a book to a a convention. And all of these kinds of things we do these seminars monthly for our sages, and they have exclusive access to that content. So that is another part of the sage tier.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Essentially, that's how our pricing model works. If you're not sure, start with the master to you. Have a go, see if it could be for you. If you drop your subscription.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: your world will still exist on world anthem. you will have access to all of your information, you will be able to export all of your information if you want to. As we said, it's your content you should not lose access to it.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You will be reduced to the free man. Limitations of the account, which means that stuff that is up is up, but stuff that is gone. Things like your URL redirect will not work anymore. Your your white labeling will be disabled, but your content will still be up there. People will still be able to find it.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: And of course we know we don't delete your stuff, cause. It's your stuff. So that in a nutshell is how our pricing system works. We've tried to make it as fair as we can. Obviously, you know, we. We know, you guys, just people who wanna write stuff. And we've tried to make it really accessible and really fair. There was some questions about the coupon code. The coupon code that we are giving for this week to celebrate

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: for writing a fans sci-fi week is a 50% off forever. So instead of having 50% off. Just for the first term of your subscription, you will have 50% off

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: for as long as you hold that subscription absolutely so that will be a price. Fix as well. If you drop the subscription. Then that's it. It's gone. But as long as you hold the subscription. You will get that 50% off forever. And I will say, pro writing aid. The chrome Plugin works absolutely beautifully with world anvil. They synergize gloriously. I use it

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  no, Lucy, I'm afraid it's not available for current subscribers right now. We we've we've got this offer for new users, but we don't have office for current subscribers right now we do occasionally run office for current subscribers things like upgrade office. So do keep an eye out for those. But this one, I'm afraid. No, is not available.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: noisy. Says I've seen so many props and challenges to write down articles inside world, ample any tips to write a good and simple article for characters or places on our pages. Use the world building templates.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: use the prompts in the world. Building templates the ones we showed you. So there's that big box at the top, but when you click the button underneath, it expands all of those prompts. That is my suggestion.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and use the temps templates, use the props and the templates that will guide you. Letisha. No, the prices online do not reflect the discount already.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: building a random generator. I can't tell you when it's coming, but I can tell you it is coming with very

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  what map making software did you use for the star system. Demetrius Demetrius is the map making software. Demetrius is as well as being a whip. Technical whiz and design specialist and social psychologist, very, very talented in art and design and map making. So that was just Demetrius with an art program. But

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is there a way to track relationships easily. Yes, yes, you can create relationships. There is not a a, a visual representation just yet for those relationships. Well, I mean, there is. But it's not as graphically pleasing as the one we have here for diplomacy trace, but it will be coming as well. We have a whole update that will be specifically about relationships, and not only would allow you to hear relationship between people, but it also allow you to have relationship between people and organizations, and how, for example, they fee to to

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: yeah, but can be used for screenwriting. So I would say, it's especially useful for creating that world. But, it can. You can absolutely use manuscript screenwriting as well, what it does not do right now is the automatic formatting that some screenwriting software does. I will say that II don't wanna mislead anyone. I will say that it does not automatically do that formatting for you.

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But what it does do is it gives you a beautiful place to write, and of course, a massive place to build your world as well, and if you only use it for building your well, and you use a specialized screen writing software for the other bit, you'll still be able to have all of that well, building juice. It's gonna support your screenwriting. We have a lot of screenwriters right now.

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I think. And please do not quote me at this cause. I have to go check it out for the phone. I'm dyslexic as well. That's why II will have to check out manuscripts. I'm pretty sure enough for the phones we have to chose there easy dyslexia, friendly phones, but I will have to go check it out and let you know what I will suggest. Always, of course, for dyslexic is open up the line height and give them more spacing on the lines and create the phone. I'm 9,000%, so that we have one. But I have to go check it out.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Next question from Imran, when creating a TV series when creating a TV series, other ways to outline and link individual episodes and seasons and build seasonal. For example, certain stuff in season. One is linked to something else in season 3. Yes, you can create plot articles for each episode, and then you can create a master plot article. Exactly so. A parent article

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: for each season, and then, of course, you can link everything together just like you would do with any other kind of app. The other thing I would do there effectively is also to create system, to be able to link effectively plots that are related or exercise related specific plots to that pod. But also you can use the sidebar to create master Plot, for example, to be able to navigate you. This is what we're done. We was made to do. And this

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: really good at it. Yes, yeah, absolutely.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: So because browser based software. It has your browser based spell check, but they have not paid me to say this. I use the pro writing a plugin for chrome, and it works absolutely beautifully with our novel writing software. So that is what I would recommend. Download the free pro writing a plugin, you can use it with the normal writing software on World Angle. The whole thing works beautifully together. It will be able to help you with past tenses. Which was a question somebody had. Yes.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: absolutely big, is spectacular. It is a work of art. They work together like a work of art. They make me happy. That is the answer to that question to answer Imran's question, for the upcoming feature be available from users. Yes, absolutely will be a guilt feature if

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  software first of all. But he has also an open Api that you can actually use to connect it to whatever you want to connect it to, as well as the other sort of his connections with it. We already have some connection with some software, but you know as this, the list expands, the connections expands as well. There's a restriction in that makes sense.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Andrea says, does this software make a type of web page that readers can refer to to understand the world and see the characters. Yes, absolutely so. For example, this is the article that Dimi has been making during this webinar. You watch him make it. If I click view.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you'll be able to see the article and anybody else. Your readers, if you choose to share this with them, but also be able to see the article, and if you want to you will be able to. You'll be able to allow them to see only parts of the article you want them to see. So you can have some sections of the article that everybody can see like the character introduction.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: and then you can have sections like secrets that only you can see, so you can keep the secret secret whilst sharing the bits that you want to share with your readers as well.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: The whole world animal works like this, you can, in the same piece of work, share some stuff and hide some stuff which is so important for writers. Yes, exactly so. For example, you can even say you can have some check boxes, so you can have people say, I have read Book one, but I have not read Book 2. They will be able to see the spoilers for Book one. They will not be able to see the spoilers for Book 2.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: This is something that is so useful for writers who have a big reader base who have a big series. They wanna be able to show the characters at different stages. So, for example, you can have a section that's like after book, one such and such about this character, and then underneath, after book 2 such and such about this character, and people can self select which books they've read and which books they haven't. So they can only see the spoilers they want to see, and they can't have the books written for them

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: like like that. It it's it's very simple.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  so what do we done there?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  I can say the first version of the Creator. But if I give you this article right now, because it is actually released right now. yeah. So Timmy just dropped a URL in the chat. If you go and look at this, URL, you will not be able to see that underneath the family tree that will not be visible to you, cause that's only visible to people who have the specific permission to see that section of the

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we've talked about screenplays we've talked about. Can I touch screenplay? 4 months? No, but we have had that discussion with our community. We have actually a way for community to suggest information and things. It goes the suggestion that we have a new system for manuscripts. You'd be able to write in a screenplay format, and we will be implementing in the next version. Yes.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  Does the software make a type of web page that? Yes, we've answered that one.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: no worries about that. Can I populate well by uploading my complete novel.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: How?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: No. So the world cannot. The the software can count, upload your novel and the software will be able to extrapolate world building information from it.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: That might be something you could do with Chat Gp. To extrapolate well, building articles from well, banal does not do that for you, I'm afraid. But what I would say is, it will be very valuable if you are writing subsequent books, to take a few hours and just build the world. If you've already built the novel you could just copy pasting straight into world ample articles very, very quickly.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: 9 out of 10 horror stories about physical computers failing, and very few horror stories about cloud failing that, that's all. But if if it gives you joy, if it gives you peace of mind, of course. Exactly. We talked about how the data is protected. Yes, yeah. What I will tell you guys is, of course, we're not writing software. But we are also a professional

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: well building software. So we have big teams of triple a game designers using world angle. This stuff is encrypted to like for any degree. Our security is serious because it has to be serious, because we have professionals like you guys unlike big game studios, all unpublishing houses, all put in the material on well handle. So our security is very serious because we take this very seriously.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  where do you click to make an article very easy thing? We can show you right now. I mean, there are many locations to do it. But here you can actually put it between published and draft draft is something you can only see. Publish some that's actually published. Of course, public versus private. If it's private, you can actually find who your audiences can actually read as well. For example, I can say this so limited by the game masters

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: at this point effectively, if you look click, click again on the link that you hit up, it's no longer working as an article for you, because it's not private. You will gonna get a paid article is private. Of course, there are multiple levels of privacy. So which means that I could make the whole world private and my articles automatically. All be private, or I can make a whole public and some of the articles private which is very common to do. For example, you want to define content, that is, for everyone, and contact only for specific group of people, or just for you.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Yes, absolutely. Let's go through these. Can I publish my novel without the subscription. No, I'm afraid the number of ways only for master users. And above, you will need a subscription to use the normalizing software.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Let's go on here. Aws, we're using a different provider. But yes, we have multiple zones

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: getting hold of that free plan.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I think that that's a that's usually something that we do for guild numbers. Yes, that's a guild members. Because actually, it will take a lot of time. We'll have to go and search, to find and confirm the data. So it is, of course, to take some time. Yeah, absolutely. So, essentially, if it takes a lot of team time. This is usually something that we we make a privilege for, for guilt, numbers. Does it support all languages?

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  let's have a look. I can understand this is a great way to publish. Engage with readers. What extent can you keep all of your ideas private while you're just starting up and need them protected. Yes. Do you have a link you could share with the tech details about security.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You will see the prices in your own area with all the taxes applied. So you can

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: by where you are. Essentially somebody is asking about

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: how you can give access to readers, actually, what they are asking is, they're confused about what the world Evol is a project. And effectively so when you're creating a wall Downville project that's called the world. The goal can be a planet, a city, your setting, whatever this might be, and effectively, once you create this, then you can actually say alright. I would like here, for example, my dad and my mom, because they're my favorite to answer, although my private world is private, to have access to that. So you could tell them, go create a free account. They don't need to have a paid account, and I will give you access to my world, which means from now on.

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Whenever I say that something is accessible to your group.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you can see. And again, of course, you can do of this. Can you use professionally for picture or any other way that you want to or use that, for example, absolutely. I'm just conscious of the time somebody's asked calendar should be useful lifetime subscriptions? No, I'm afraid not. It's only for our annual subscriptions. So not on monthly. It's for all annual subscriptions, and that's annual at any tier

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: somebody else about the Greats and the manuscript owner. Yes, they are all yours.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: somebody said. I've looked into a couple of writing software since we're language about their retaining digital rights to your original work. We're retaining the rights to present, edit and manipulate the work, to show it to you and to the people that you choose to show it to. That is the right to retain, because we're software waiting to to actually, you know, show it. Therefore, when the rights to show it from you. But that's pretty much yeah, absolutely.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis:  And the coupon will be available for the next 3 days.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Yeah, this one

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: you've been writing somewhere else.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It will take time. I will suggest that slow discover how the platform works, and then you can rump it up and you will see. Find out soon enough. That will be months faster for you. Please absolutely

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: go. Use the platform, see how it is for you. So he said, please just some map building and character image platforms. Incorrect. Very good. Big journey. Also. Very good stable diffusion also. Really good.

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what's the other one that that's that place doesn't exist. But person doesn't exist.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I'm so sorry I'm going here. So if you go to our blog, just blog dot world apple.com. You could see we're in the in the edit mostly. And you search for map making software.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: You will find a whole series articles about map making software. If you do the same thing for character portraits.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: I can't type. It's too late. My brain cheese character portraits. So we have a whole wealth of information. We also have a bunch of like really great guest blogs, blogs about how to do things, so go and search that you will find character portrait resources. You will find Matt

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: making resources. They are all on that. I have done the work of reviewing them. You could go and check them out and see what you think this up.

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That's what I would recommend there. Tian, Tiany says I just got the grandmaster. I'm so excited to be a God. That sounds awesome. Congratulations, congratulations. Thank you so very much for your support. We deeply appreciate it. What I will say is, well, that will. What we would say is, grab your hammer. So I would say that to you right now.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: There was a question about when the coupons, I think. 3 days perfect. Yeah, cool.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: No problem. Don't apologize. This is great. Thank you so much. This is very informative and just. Everyone knows if you want to see the demo again, the replay will be up on the hub, so check it out there and thank you both. It was so lovely having you back again.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: It was such a pleasure. Thank you so much for having us, Michelle. And guys. I will say, if you have more questions, or if you just want to come, hang out with us. We have a twitch channel, which is a live, streaming platform that's twitch

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: forward, slash world, anvil absolutely, and we do a lot of live streams. We run webinars as well. That's a place where you can come and ask us questions, live or otherwise. If you go to world apple.com slash discord, you can join our discord community as well. That's where we hang out. You can come and find us and have a chat.

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Janet Forbes & Dimitris Havlidis: Alright. Thank you so much. We'll see everybody at the next session in just a over about 30 min. So see you there and have a great rest of your day. Janet and Demetrius. Thank you.