WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.930 --> 00:00:09.000 Tom Wilde: Okay. 2 00:00:09.250 --> 00:00:10.780 Tom Wilde: thank you. Everybody. 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:12.519 Tom Wilde: Great to see you 4 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:18.330 Tom Wilde: trickling in welcome once again to the start of day. 3. 5 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:44.130 Tom Wilde: A fancy writer's week. My name is Tom Wild pro writing aid by day. I lead the partnerships team here, but I also love to get involved hosting some of our writers week sessions. And have we got a great one for you today? So thanks thanks once again for joining us. I hope you've been enjoying the week so far. We're kicking off day 2, with an sorry day. 3 with with an absolute storming one. 6 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:58.689 Tom Wilde: We're gonna get into world anvil, and we're incredibly lucky to be joined by the founders of world anvil more about Janet and Demetrius in a minute. I can see some of you know the drill already, and are starting to add 7 00:00:58.810 --> 00:01:05.199 Tom Wilde: your where you're joining from into the chat, as well as some lovely comments about World anvil. 8 00:01:05.230 --> 00:01:17.360 Tom Wilde: Thank you for those, so we'll just go through a few of those while we're waiting for everybody to join. I'm gonna say good morning to Tony, who was first, but we've got all sorts of callers joining us from Chicago. 9 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.380 Tom Wilde: from Nashville, from Japan, from Oregon. 10 00:01:20.998 --> 00:01:35.330 Tom Wilde: From London, up the road. I'm down in Brighton, on the South coast. Hi Casey from South Carolina, Gillian from Ohio. This is one of my favorite bits of these sessions, just seeing where all you good people are joining from Kingston, Ontario in Canada. 11 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:49.309 Tom Wilde: Massachusetts. More people from London great to have a Uk contingent and oh, and Sydney as well. But Kay, welcome from Sydney! Goodness knows again. What time it is there? Probably I don't know. 4 Am. Something like that. 12 00:01:49.857 --> 00:02:10.400 Tom Wilde: Okay, lovely to see you. Welcome, welcome, one and all, before we get started. Let's go through those housekeeping items. I know many of you will be familiar with these already. For those who are new, and they will hopefully be useful. Hopefully, you can see my screen. It's over here. So I'm just going to be faced it that way while I go through some of these. 13 00:02:10.790 --> 00:02:14.649 Tom Wilde: But the first thing to say is about your replays. So 14 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:21.859 Tom Wilde: replays are going to be added to the hub once they're processed by zoom. That can take time it varies. 15 00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:30.850 Tom Wilde: but know this replays will be available on the pro writing. A community page for all members to view. 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So if you wanna take advantage, you'll find out more details on the Hub. 24 00:04:12.380 --> 00:04:15.959 Tom Wilde: and if you want to keep talking fancy, and I take it you all do 25 00:04:16.296 --> 00:04:21.679 Tom Wilde: join for writing a community like I said, really simple. You'll find it linked from the homepage 26 00:04:21.994 --> 00:04:34.379 Tom Wilde: you can talk with other fancy fans you can keep up to date with all of our writing events, too, and you can see right here the URL you'll need. I'll put that in chat in a few moments. 27 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.739 Tom Wilde: Reminders for this session. 28 00:04:36.830 --> 00:05:05.850 Tom Wilde: So, please, if you've got a question for Janet or Demetrius. Please put it in the QA section chat tends to move so quickly. We can't keep up with it, and it becomes a distraction for for the presenters. So please, if you've got a question that you want to have answered, put it in the QA. I've been chatting to Janet and Demetrius already this morning, and they are going to spend 15 to 20 min at the end on QA. So should have plenty of time to answer questions. Then. 29 00:05:06.180 --> 00:05:12.069 Tom Wilde: if you'd like to chat with other viewers, please do we love to see that active back channel. So please use chat for that. 30 00:05:12.270 --> 00:05:21.680 Tom Wilde: And then, if you want to see links to our office or other speakers, they'll be available on the fancy writers week. Hub, but I'll also post those in chat in a moment. 31 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:43.410 Tom Wilde: Okay, that's it. Let's get started gonna close that screen. I'm gonna run through a quick bio just to introduce you to our wonderful guests. So today we've got an awesome demo from World anvil. We're gonna be taking a deeper dive and a look into it. I know you got a bit of a tasty essay with a session with Janet and Demetrius, then. 32 00:05:43.600 --> 00:06:07.109 Tom Wilde: just to introduce them both. So Janet Forbes is a published fantasy author, game developer, and she's secretly also a velociraptor. She's been building worlds since she was knee high to an orc, and in 2,017 she cofounded World anvil the award winning world building, writing, and tabletop. Rpg. Platform, which boasts a community of almost 2 million users. 33 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:15.280 Tom Wilde: As a writer, Janet has published short fiction in several collections. She was the lead author of The Dark Crystal, Rpg. In 2021. 34 00:06:15.470 --> 00:06:26.479 Tom Wilde: She's also written for infinite black cobal press, penny dragon games and tie breaker, and she's notorious for sneaking dinosaurs into every IP. She works on. 35 00:06:27.299 --> 00:06:37.540 Tom Wilde: Demetrius, Demetrius have have led us, has been building settings for 30 years, and has made more epic sandbox worlds than he's had hot dinners. 36 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:48.380 Tom Wilde: He holds degrees in computing social psychology, always useful for tormenting characters and graphic design, and he worked as a CTO for some of the top agencies in the UK. 37 00:06:48.830 --> 00:06:54.590 Tom Wilde: He left the corporate world to focus on world anvil which is now his life's work, and with his wife Janet 38 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:08.979 Tom Wilde: he developed the groundbreaking, 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 who doesn't lemon pies and top hats so. 39 00:07:09.030 --> 00:07:13.750 Tom Wilde: and great big pro writing. Ed, welcome to Janet and Demetrius. 40 00:07:14.310 --> 00:07:16.750 Tom Wilde: I think it's sharing a screen right now. 41 00:07:16.840 --> 00:07:24.330 Tom Wilde: Janet Demetrius, I'm going to hand over to you guys, I'm going to post promote a little code and some details in chat. But 42 00:07:24.450 --> 00:07:25.700 Tom Wilde: it's all with you. 43 00:07:26.140 --> 00:07:28.379 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Thank you very much. Thank you so much, Tom. 44 00:07:29.050 --> 00:07:45.410 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Anna. Hi, guys, it's nice to see you again. I saw some of you yesterday at my talk about building rich worlds, how to convert a world-building project that might not feel so rich and alive into something that is truly truly spectacular. 45 00:07:45.410 --> 00:07:57.599 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And today, we're gonna be talking more about the tool that we use for world building, the tool that we made for world building. We're telling you a little bit about. Why, world anvil, we're gonna tell you a little bit about what 46 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:21.879 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: world anvil and then we're gonna answer some questions which I'm expecting will be also how world anvil. So I would like to say also a a massive apology for not being able to be here yesterday. I know of. My wife did an incredible work, and everybody was excited about it. So yeah, it's okay. But I'm really sorry I wasn't here yesterday, but there was something very urgent I couldn't miss like, literally, because 47 00:08:21.890 --> 00:08:49.529 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: impossible to. So just turning up the game a little bit on the microphone, guys, let us know if you can hear us better. Apparently we're a little bit quiet. Oh, it really happens to me. Janet is many things quiet is not one of the things better. We are better. There we go. Do you wanna share your screen? Yes, of course, it's just waiting for you to leave enjoying transaction before I do. So let's do this. Let's share some dragons do this. Dragons dragons. 48 00:08:50.144 --> 00:09:11.867 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So yeah, welcome to World anvil. Basically. This is, as you've already heard a whole bunch about us and top hats, yeah, and dinosaurs. So this is us. This is who we are. We are both professional world builders. We are both published world builders and we spend our days and nights thinking about world building. That's what we do. 49 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:29.840 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: so much so that we built a world building platform. Which is what world anvil is? It is a world building platform for writers that's often called a world Bible. Think you might think of it like a wiki is often a word that's used. But you can also add to that. 50 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:59.390 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Imagine it's the Google Maps for your world. Imagine it's the ancestry.com for your world. Imagine it is timelines for your world. So everything that you need to track in time and space, from plots and characters to timelines and maps and locations and magical Mcguffins and items and everything else. It can all go on world anvil that will keep it safe and secure in a place that you can quickly search out of your head. 51 00:09:59.390 --> 00:10:02.240 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and a place that you can then use 52 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:26.201 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: cause. It integrates without novel writing software to write your novel, and for those of you who are pro writing aid fans. I am also pro writing aid fan. I love me some pro writing aid. The Google Chrome Plugin works completely with World anvil because it is a browser based software and it is my preferred spell, checker, gram and checker everything else. So I can tell you right now. Seamless integration there between pro writing aid and world amble. 53 00:10:26.490 --> 00:10:31.963 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Yes, I'm not prepared to do this. I just like it. 54 00:10:32.420 --> 00:10:48.080 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yeah. So yeah, it's a world building platform. It's novel writing software. We also have a lot of writers using it as a marketing tool, particularly those who are in, not not just in the writing stage, but now in the publishing stage as well. And it's a whole creative community. 55 00:10:48.140 --> 00:10:49.609 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So let's dive into that. 56 00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:57.260 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Oh, I forgot about this slide. Yeah, so I will give you a 2 min origin story. Dmitri. Start the timer. 57 00:10:58.384 --> 00:11:10.080 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It was 2017, and I was writing an epic fantasy. Novel game of thrones was all the rage. People were wearing skinny jeans, and I was doing my world building on Google Docs. 58 00:11:10.330 --> 00:11:35.339 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And it sucked because Google Docs crashes when it gets to about 101 pages. Don't know if you know that. But Google Docs does not like very long documents and a lot of kind of non specialized software works that way. Trying to put tables and images into my Google. Doc made it worse and more cumbersome. And the biggest issue is that wealth building is not linear 59 00:11:35.550 --> 00:11:52.240 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: a world. Look at Wikipedia, if you don't believe me, is a nexus of interconnected information. It is all of these things, and the influence of everything on everything else that makes our world and world building really rich. 60 00:11:52.500 --> 00:12:18.170 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And the Google Doc could not do that to be fair. It's not built for that. That's fine. No shade to Google docs or other software of that kind. But yeah, that was that was not the way. And so I went to work. Demetrius, and I, said, Demetrius, help me, my world building sucks. And he looked at this Google document. He was like a world building is excellent. You know what you're doing. The problem is the software that you're using. This is not made for that. So 61 00:12:18.210 --> 00:12:40.880 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I will make you a thing, he literally said. I will make you a thing. And the thing he made me was world anvil, or at least an iteration of all Danville 7 years ago. Now. Yeah. And it's been developing ever since. We're gonna show you a bunch of that today. But we just like to share. You know, where this came from. We are completely self started. We didn't. 62 00:12:41.195 --> 00:12:57.260 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We don't have fancy Vc funding or something. We are 2 world builders who adore well, building. We are professionals in the field. And we made a software that we use every day for our personal projects. And it also helps almost 3 million. Now are the world builders as well. 63 00:12:57.260 --> 00:13:08.629 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Also, we didn't have financial support. We didn't have 3 cats, though it has to be said everything they could to actually make our life happier and more difficult. But yes, yeah, it's that that's true, as the fur babies tend to. 64 00:13:09.330 --> 00:13:16.640 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So I've already touched on this world. Anvil helps you build and track your world Bible, your wiki. 65 00:13:16.850 --> 00:13:19.880 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It also helps you write and revise your novel. 66 00:13:20.298 --> 00:13:26.200 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And all of that World Bible information is referenceable from the novel writing software as well. 67 00:13:26.550 --> 00:13:33.090 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It allows you to keep your notes private whilst sharing stuff that you want to share 68 00:13:33.340 --> 00:13:39.119 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: in any manner that you want. So you have complete control over who's seeing what. 69 00:13:39.620 --> 00:14:03.780 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And we've seen a lot of writers who use it to build communities of readers around their work. That's not just all the readers on World Anvil, who are, of course, massive fantasy and sci fi fans, and are always looking for fun worlds to follow and fun books to read. That's also your own fans and your own marketing. That is made easier through world anvil, because everything looks so pretty and is all nicely connected. 70 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:11.960 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So at its core. Let's start with the World Bible section. 71 00:14:12.110 --> 00:14:14.045 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Well, Andville has 72 00:14:15.206 --> 00:14:20.073 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: a well building Meta, which is our recommended get started 73 00:14:21.110 --> 00:14:50.460 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: location, I guess. And this is a tool that we've developed to essentially help you figure out what your setting is about. If you are starting, we do have a course coming up on this as well. That will give you more information. But essentially it helps you figure out the building blocks of your setting from the get go. So you don't have that horrible blank page syndrome moment. It's got examples in there. It's got all sorts of things to help you right from the get. Go, fill in your settings. 74 00:14:51.953 --> 00:15:06.289 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It's also got world building templates. Now, this is one of the things we discovered early on that world builders really need. They set out. They want to build. Let's say a magical item. We're in fantasy week. Lots of magical items. Okay? 75 00:15:06.660 --> 00:15:12.549 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But I don't know what I need to make a rich magical item. 76 00:15:13.140 --> 00:15:29.920 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and that's where the world building template comes in. The world. Building template gives you prompts to help you think about how to develop your setting and different ways that you could develop your magical item, your your location, which is what Demetrius is sharing right now. 77 00:15:30.211 --> 00:15:47.989 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Resources and industry is one of our prompts, one other resources in this place. What is the industry in this place and the whole point of this is to prevent white page syndrome that horrible blank page syndrome where you're like. I need a thing, and I have no idea where to go with it, and it gives you that ability. 78 00:15:48.300 --> 00:15:50.179 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So that's the world building prompts. 79 00:15:52.130 --> 00:16:09.349 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Next up is the fast World building flow. Now, one of the things that I mentioned that Google docs and other kind of vanilla software is not great, for is linking an interconnectedness. And this is something that world anvil is absolutely made for. 80 00:16:09.350 --> 00:16:34.109 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So, as you are creating articles, you can create other articles, and you can link them in all from the same place, because context shifting is one of the biggest issues. When you're trying to concentrate on something and not having to change, Tab, not having to change screen. That's something that will absolutely make your life so much easier if you are creating a character, and you want to detail who their parents were, and write maybe 81 00:16:34.110 --> 00:16:52.530 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: couple of lines about those, you can add them to an article and link them in their place where they were born. The place where they trained, for example, let's say their magic university. You can create the article, write a few notes so that you don't forget it, and then just link it straight in, and then you can go back to it later. 82 00:16:55.860 --> 00:17:18.050 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: the full world text search. I don't need to say much about that. You can search everything you can find everything. The whole point is that everything is at your fingertips in seconds, and that is what world amble does. It makes sure that you can search everything. And the full text, the the advanced search titles and your body text, and all the tags that you've put on as well. So you can mark things as plot. 83 00:17:18.050 --> 00:17:42.949 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and then search for plots, and you can see all your plots, or you could mark things as side characters, and then search all your side characters or Pov characters is a tag that I use quite often, for I'm like, I only wanna see the Pov characters that I've used in this series who have I used as a Pov character, makes it so much quicker. And of course you could work with other people, because, yes, you can write by yourself. It's absolutely fun, but it's also nice to write with other people, and we have the ability to add Co authors to your world. 84 00:17:43.030 --> 00:18:08.160 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So you can co-develop and collaborate on a world together if you choose to. And there's different levels of collaboration as well. You can be a Co. Owner. You can be a just editor collaborator, or you can be a writer which gives you fewer permissions, and you, as the owner of the world, completely control how much access people have to stuff. That's really important for creators. We know this, we are creators. 85 00:18:08.930 --> 00:18:28.469 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So that's kind of the building and storing of your world. You've already seen a little bit of how visual world amble can be, and how beautiful! And I think that's something that is really inspiring as a world Bible. It's one thing to have, you know, a white page with black text or a black page with white text. If you are clam dark mode. 86 00:18:28.470 --> 00:18:40.850 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But it's another thing to have something that looks really inspiring, to have something that looks really like. Oh, gosh! This actually makes me want to, you know, dive into my world. This makes me want to write more. 87 00:18:40.870 --> 00:19:01.569 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: That's something that is really important on those days where we have to drag ourselves to the computer. We have to convince ourselves. So not only can you make your articles incredibly beautiful, you can control the layout you can control, you know, and the font and the background imagery and if you want to, you can go very far with siling. 88 00:19:01.750 --> 00:19:08.730 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It also gives you you the ability to showcase things like the time in your world. 89 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:38.260 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Now, this is something that is so important for us writers when we're trying to figure out what happened when sometimes you want to plot, sometimes you want a list, but sometimes you need an honest to goodness, timeline. And this is one example of our timelines. This is our list, timeline, and it allows you to list information, link together the relevant organizations and articles and characters that are related to the historical entries that are that are happening in your world. 90 00:19:38.260 --> 00:19:48.929 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And that might be history as of 5 years ago, or that might be history as of 5,000 years ago. You can even project into the future if you want to, with timeline. So you know what's gonna happen next. 91 00:19:49.010 --> 00:20:13.760 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And again on this timeline this is our time scale mode. So the previous one showed a list of events as they happened, and this one shows also the duration of events and parallel events. And yeah, it gives you an extraordinary ability to really visualize what's going on. I've seen people use different columns on this to do so. Kind of like the history of the elves versus the history of the dwarves. 92 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:25.750 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: for example, all the history of magical invention versus technological invention. If you're doing a kind of science versus magic style world, there's a there's a lot that can be gained as a writer 93 00:20:25.750 --> 00:20:32.570 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: from having a clear timeline, and I have to say I used both timelines and chronicles on my recent novel to 94 00:20:32.670 --> 00:20:48.329 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: the Policis way to say, this is unfoo my timeline, because, oh, my goodness, it was a disaster, and I needed the tool to figure out how people were getting where? Otherwise you have insta travel our allied game of thrones, and nobody wants that. 95 00:20:48.925 --> 00:21:09.079 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So the whole thing is, yeah, it's it's designed to help you. It's designed to help you visualize your world and build more of the things that you need in your world without getting distracted. And I think interactive maps is another great example of that. So I will say right here very clearly. World anvil is not a map making software. 96 00:21:09.150 --> 00:21:38.900 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: There are many map making softwares out there. All of them look completely different. Everybody has different taste in maps. They want different visuals. They want it to look different. They are not a map making software. So you upload your map, whether you've auto generated that or created it, or, you know, drawn it on my first map was made of Microsoft paint was very fine map. I stand by it. I uploaded it onto world angle. And yeah, okay, the map was not the most beautiful map, because I made it. If Demetrius had made it like this one it would have been gorgeous. This is Timmy's map. It's very pretty. 97 00:21:39.269 --> 00:21:48.500 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But it did what I needed it to do. Which is, it was a visual representation that I could then PIN my actual information to. 98 00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:59.160 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And this is what you're seeing here. All of these assets you're seeing are world animal assets. They allow you to have pins. The pins are interactive. 99 00:21:59.280 --> 00:22:17.110 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and they link to articles to characters, to more information of the map. You can also have different layers on your map, so you can show different. You can show the political layer on one graphic. You can show the maybe the underneath. If you have a kind of 100 00:22:17.230 --> 00:22:33.429 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: caverns, or on the dark of your map, you can show the floating islands over your world as well. You can use it for climate. You can use it for biomes. You can. You can use layers for all sorts of different things. And again, you can turn these pins 101 00:22:33.430 --> 00:22:58.640 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: into interactive elements that go either to articles in your world or to other maps. So you can create a world map that goes to a region map that goes to a city map that goes to even the blueprints of a house which is something I've used before. When I had a a secret society hideout. I literally was trying to plan the way the characters were going to the different rooms. 102 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:05.079 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and I had a blueprint that I used that was so helpful for that. And I used it as an interactive map on world apple. 103 00:23:05.270 --> 00:23:23.499 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So this is something that again, if you're creating something where people are traveling or you're trying to figure out the physicality of your spaces. Interactive maps are so useful, and especially when you're well building, being able to literally PIN the information rather than having that horrible moment where you're like. Wait! 104 00:23:23.540 --> 00:23:43.259 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I put this thing on the map. For some reason I drew a squiggle. I have no idea what the squiggle is anymore. And I had ideas. I can't remember what the ideas were. This has happened to me so often the interactive map allows you to definitely keep your notes and context on the physical, on the visualization of the of the space as well. 105 00:23:44.038 --> 00:24:04.149 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Well, that will also has a family trees module that will automatically make family trees. So you just fill in the relationships between the characters. And it goes okay and makes you a family tree. So no kind of like fiddling around with like individual things to try and get them lined up. It just makes it full. This is also interactive. By the way, you can click around and go to the different characters. 106 00:24:04.449 --> 00:24:23.340 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It has a diplomacy trees. So these are all organizations in a world. And with the diplomacy trees thing again, you just set their relationships, and the system automatically makes this for you. So you do not have to faff about with trying to get things aligned. And you just change some numbers, and it will update the the Graphic for you. 107 00:24:23.390 --> 00:24:51.820 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So having this visualization is just so useful. If you're doing like political, you know political wrangling, if you're doing, you know, diff 5 different religions wrangling for prowess within a fantasy world. Or you know the guilds who are wrangling for prowess with a patrician. You can have that like interconnected visualization of what they really think of each other, and what they say they think of each other. And these are the things that make your world go. Not just 108 00:24:52.210 --> 00:25:00.950 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: okay, but holy Moly. There's so much going on here, and it's so easy to build and track in world number. And that's why we made it. 109 00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:05.188 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Well, that will also has a novel writing software, 110 00:25:05.770 --> 00:25:26.549 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and this was something that we just we needed to to integrate with all of that great world building. So that's what we created. I mentioned before about context, shifting that horrible moment where you change, tab on your browser and instantly forget who you are and where you were going. I don't know if that happens to anyone else. But that happens to me literally all the time. 111 00:25:26.550 --> 00:25:38.207 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So the whole point of our novel writing software here, this is all customizable. By the way, the way it looks, there's a dark mode. There's a light mode. You can change the font. You can change the color on the back. All of that is is controllable. 112 00:25:39.158 --> 00:25:46.031 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: even the colors of those highlighted tabs on the side. That's all customizable. So 113 00:25:46.590 --> 00:25:49.900 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yeah, you can. You can essentially change the way it looks completely 114 00:25:50.351 --> 00:26:13.389 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but the other thing that was really important to us was again removing that context shift, making sure that when you are writing and you have this genius idea for your world building. That's the focus mode. Let me just show you, by the way you can go to the bottom right and create an article so that you keep the notes of the thing that you just had the genius idea about 115 00:26:13.643 --> 00:26:37.220 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and then you will have those notes later. One of the things that I often do is I'll write a really lovely description of something, and I'll be like right that is going straight into the world Bible, and I'll just copy, paste the whole thing and stick it in the world Bible. So if I edit the manuscript later and take it out. I still have that description saved in my world Bible, and I won't lose it. Something that has really really helped me with my own writing show flow. 116 00:26:37.430 --> 00:26:54.219 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But the other thing is that you can reference. Of course, your World Bible as you are writing. So this book that you see before you has a a bit of a magic school element. I made a curriculum for the magic school. Could I remember what was in the curriculum. While I was writing the novel, I could not. 117 00:26:54.840 --> 00:27:03.970 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But with world anvil I could just pull it up and reference it all the time when I needed to remember which teacher was teaching. What if you go to the top left and type London for me? 118 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:11.984 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So it has the ability to pop articles out. But it also, if you go to the top. Yeah, there we go. 119 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:20.510 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It has also the ability to do this kind of split screen thing. Now for those of you who are like me. 120 00:27:20.710 --> 00:27:38.408 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: older than 20, you may remember that this was something Microsoft word used to do this split screen? And it was something that was so incredibly useful for cross referencing 2 different things. And we brought that functionality into wellamble. So you can reference an article as it's 121 00:27:38.850 --> 00:27:56.069 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: as you're writing, you can also edit and add to that article as you are writing. So if you think of new things that need to be added to your world. Bible. As you are writing, you do not leave the tab, you do not press, go, you do not collect the $200, you literally go and write it in the world. Bible. 122 00:27:56.850 --> 00:28:23.057 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: What Demetrius is showing you right now is our export. This is a text rich HTML, which come is completely compatible with ebook creators. Google, Doc, Pdf, creators, all of that kind of stuff. So you can. That's the reason we used text rich HTML, because you can just drop it anywhere, and it is compatible. So that is how the export works. But you can also publish on world if you want to. We have a very fine 123 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:32.509 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: online publishing software. You can see some examples right there of people who've published and got wow! 124 00:28:32.650 --> 00:28:42.049 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Several, several, many 1,000 views there on this story. And again, one of the things that you can do if you choose to 125 00:28:42.160 --> 00:29:05.544 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: is, you can leave some chapters, public and some chapters private. So a lot of writers choose to release the first couple of chapters and then say, Okay, you can go here to buy the book, or you can go here and support me on Patreon, or support me on Kofi to get access to the rest of it. And that's something that's very easy to set up on world anvil. And essentially, this is a great example. If you think something top left for me? 126 00:29:06.826 --> 00:29:15.749 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Yeah. So this is a great example. Of somebody who's chosen to make their their first chapter public. 127 00:29:15.790 --> 00:29:23.680 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and then the rest of it is available via Kofi and there's a call to matches on there as well. That that explains all of this, so you'll really won't be confused. 128 00:29:24.210 --> 00:29:25.930 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So that's an overwriting software. 129 00:29:26.298 --> 00:29:52.759 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and, as I say, it works completely with our yes, as Christine says in the chat, nice marketing tool. You could publish teases of a coming story. And this is what we see people doing, although publish one of a collection of short stories and say you can read the rest. It's a very clever idea for people writing serial fiction. We've seen the classic model of. I release a chapter, but some of my patreons get it 2 weeks in advance, and some of my patreons get it 4 weeks in advance. 130 00:29:52.760 --> 00:30:04.650 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So we've seen a lot of different people using this model in different ways. And it's designed to be flexible. So you can make your choice of how you want to essentially monetize your work. 131 00:30:07.580 --> 00:30:11.429 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yeah, there we go. I think we talked about this. 132 00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:18.549 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I mean, the purple wasn't the purple anymore. But it's not purple anymore. That's what we talked about. Yeah 133 00:30:19.300 --> 00:30:25.590 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and marketing. Yeah. So we've touched on this already, and a lot of the opportunities that world amble has. 134 00:30:25.919 --> 00:30:31.619 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But one of the things on World anvil that really makes it very unique. Is that anything on there 135 00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:44.799 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: can be completely private to you, not even we can see it. It can be public to everyone, so the whole world can see it, or it can be exclusive to people that you choose. 136 00:30:45.150 --> 00:30:52.739 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: which means, if you have patreons, you can give everybody access to a little taster of the world, so they know it's there. 137 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:58.410 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And then you can give certain people access to the exclusive Patreon stuff 138 00:30:58.620 --> 00:31:16.460 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: or another use we've seen is people using different subscriber groups for different books. So people can check a box saying, I have read book one and book 2, but they don't check the book. 3 box, and then they don't see spoilers for Book 3, because you have controlled what they can see. 139 00:31:16.610 --> 00:31:20.430 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And when I say controlled, I mean they could see a timeline. 140 00:31:21.040 --> 00:31:31.049 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but they could also see only certain historical entries within a timeline. So you can show or hide those they could see a whole map. 141 00:31:31.130 --> 00:31:39.759 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but they could also see only certain pins or certain layers on the map, and you can make those visible or not visible as you like. 142 00:31:39.840 --> 00:32:05.039 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and within the articles you can show or hide specific parts of an article to your patreons, or to your book. One or book, 2 readers, and you can do the same with chapters of a manuscript. You can show or hide as you wish, so the whole thing is completely modular, and you get to choose exactly who sees which bits. We do this. So you can keep a single map. 143 00:32:05.040 --> 00:32:10.169 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: That is your author map with all the secrets, and then you can have 144 00:32:10.170 --> 00:32:16.779 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: some of the stuff available only to the special people, and then a small amount available to everyone. 145 00:32:17.742 --> 00:32:42.279 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We've seen a lot of authors use well, namble as part of their social media strategy, so that essentially they give little teasers and updates. They'll take a screenshot, and they'll say for more. Go to my world, and then, of course, they'll have, you know. Sign up for my newsletter by my first book that call to action that takes them to the next step once that you've caught their interest. And we've also seen people, as I say, using Patreon as their own 146 00:32:42.280 --> 00:32:58.130 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: sort of side business. In addition to the self publishing to provide deleted scenes and character profiles and all of that kind of stuff, there are a lot of options for the different kinds of ways that you could monetize, and it is designed to monetize if you want to 147 00:33:01.210 --> 00:33:05.630 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: visual themes. So Demetrius has shown you a lot of different pages. 148 00:33:06.810 --> 00:33:08.209 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: They're all well done, but 149 00:33:08.340 --> 00:33:12.390 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: because you have a lot of control over how things look. 150 00:33:12.540 --> 00:33:30.419 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We have a whole collection. I think it's 24 or more visual themes that range from different flavors of fantasy and steampunk and sci-fi and different space themes. We have a specific elven theme, for example, and we also have the ability to customize those themes 151 00:33:30.850 --> 00:33:59.899 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: if you really want to. And you have some Css knowledge, we also allow our guild members to use Css. As well, which means that you have complete power over how things look, and people have done some pretty impressive things. But you can create a very, very beautiful world of what I will, simply using one of the basic themes and adding your own images and your own formatting and your own style. There is a lot of options for how you can do this. 152 00:34:02.040 --> 00:34:04.480 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Demetrius, just showing us some of the eye candy 153 00:34:05.658 --> 00:34:29.840 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and marketing your books. I've talked already about social media content and the potentials for Patreon and other subscription services. I've talked about the idea of having, you know deleted scenes. I've talked about the idea of having even like book one book 2 and book 3, with the gradual information that people can choose to see? We also have a lot of provision for things like global announcements. So you can set an announcement 154 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:53.819 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: that is visible in many places, and you can set that in one space. So essentially, if you have an upcoming book release, you can put the information into the upcoming book into the global announcement place, and that will propagate in various spaces on the world. So it saves you the hard work of having to take one announcement and put it across your world. You can do that in global ways. And that just makes everything a lot 155 00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:54.520 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: quick up. 156 00:34:56.989 --> 00:35:19.170 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And you can create a community. Now, one of the things that we have not, we personally. But everybody has learned from the Internet is the power of communities. They help you, they help your business. They sometimes they just give you the motivation to keep on going when life is really tough. I know that we have had that experience both as creators. And as the creators of world anvil. 157 00:35:19.230 --> 00:35:46.259 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: so you can allow your quick create for your sorry. You can allow your readers if you want to to comment and interact on your articles and maps and timelines. You can let them ask questions. We even have discussion boards which are like forums. So you can do forum play in your world. One of the things we've seen is, you know, we people have been invited to create their own character within the world setting. What would that look like or give feedback on their favorite characters, and what they wanna see more of? 158 00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:54.010 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: There's a lot of ways that you can galvanize your current readership and grow your readership using the wild animal features. 159 00:35:55.910 --> 00:36:03.080 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And of course we always do due diligence on this. It's very important. We do not take security lightly. You own your stuff. 160 00:36:03.830 --> 00:36:09.539 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: This is not the case with all platforms. This is not the case with all web publishing. 161 00:36:09.550 --> 00:36:11.489 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and this is not the case with all 162 00:36:11.820 --> 00:36:26.199 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: other softwares in a similar way. So please make sure, regardless of what you're using, Callum, you're not check out the copyright and the terms of service notices. This is incredibly important. There are some companies out there who really hide, hide this. 163 00:36:26.730 --> 00:36:40.350 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but they try and take they try and take property of your stuff. We do not do this. This is incredibly important. You own your things, they are yours. We. We will not touch them. If they are private, we can't even see them. 164 00:36:40.350 --> 00:37:04.395 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: That is important as well, which is a problem for debugging, but not a problem for you. Yes, exactly. That is not problem, not you. Problem. Worldamble has incredibly strong security. We work with several game development companies who are quite big. I cannot name names because we have ndas with them, but we have corporate level security in order to take 165 00:37:05.118 --> 00:37:34.139 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: you can download your world at any time you can create backups with that and this is really important. If you get into a copyright dispute, we are happy to provide proof of publication date, because we on our databases have evidence of when an article was created, or when a manuscript was created. So we can provide that as proof. If you should get into an IP discussion, we take this very seriously. We are professional creators, too. So 166 00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:34.850 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: just 167 00:37:35.060 --> 00:37:42.139 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I had to spend a minute talking about that. That's the that's the really critical, unsexy, very critical side of this. 168 00:37:43.010 --> 00:37:52.309 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And we have a lovely community I mentioned. We have almost 3 million users now, which is kind of incredible and one of our biggest 169 00:37:52.926 --> 00:38:03.749 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: joys is that our community has remained friendly and supportive. We have a lot of community streamers who stream their work, they share their work, they share tutorials. 170 00:38:04.054 --> 00:38:28.689 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We have monthly competitions and opportunities. We run interviews and seminars with specialists to make sure that you guys are getting all of the different kinds of inspiration and support and advice that you need. You can find more about that on world. ammel.com forward slash, podcast where we share all of that. And we have special professional opportunities for our sage tier members as well. We are occasionally in the position to be asked to support. 171 00:38:28.690 --> 00:38:53.250 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Just write us who we suggest from our safety team members. We also give them seminars, specifically geared towards professional topics. Sage, by the way, is the name of our professional tier. So you know, people who are publishing people who are writing Rpgs professionally writing novels, professionally very big. Following, for example, patron, whatever this might be. Absolutely. So that's that's kind of a special tier 172 00:38:53.250 --> 00:39:05.916 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: created for indie and small publishing houses essentially and indie Indie writers who are, you know, really, really really doing doing the professional thing and need that level of support and and 173 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.619 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and and features. Essentially. 174 00:39:12.140 --> 00:39:24.089 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I do need to keep moving, because I know we have a lot of questions. We are passionate about making world apple better world is already, in my humble opinion, as a user, awesome. It helps me every day. 175 00:39:24.640 --> 00:39:50.360 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but things can always be more awesome, and that is our philosophy. We listen to our community, our community can suggest features. We have a vibrant discord of, I think, 58,000 users we are. We literally did a poll the other day on one of our features to ask for. You know, feedback on what people want. This is really important to us. We are 2 world builders. We have a small team which totals 12 world builders. 176 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:59.214 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: But we have 3 million world builders using a software. And we use the power of the many to make sure that we are creating the software that people need. 177 00:39:59.510 --> 00:40:22.019 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And we will continue to do that. That is incredibly important to us. One of the first feature we built essentially in 2,000 20 was the ability for our users to be able to go and discuss features they would like to see and vote on them, so we can know when we should be building those and how we should be building those. And it's just always this kind of location, which is the 178 00:40:22.020 --> 00:40:45.979 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: a feature suggestions board. It's just the beginning of the conversation we will have in the future to find out even more, and make good features for you. And since the beginning of the year, only this year we completely redesigned the interface within the added new search. Where did better creation? We are in the process of completely redesigning the article management system. The new. What you see is what you get editor where creating them off by the end of the year. Manuscripts as well. 179 00:40:45.980 --> 00:40:54.920 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Right as you would like to know that we keep having a big, shiny update, massive update as well. So, yes, there is a lot of things happening all the time. Yeah. 180 00:40:56.520 --> 00:41:13.309 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So if you are interested, you can go create an account for free. You have a whole bunch of stuff you can do already with the free account, so go and get started and try it out and if you like it we have a little code for you to thank you for listing 181 00:41:13.542 --> 00:41:35.150 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: if you want to, you can join our live streams. Now there is a caveat there I am leaving, for we are leaving for work tomorrow on a work trip, so we won't be live streaming for the next couple of weeks. But we do a lot of live streams. We do a lot of support via our live streams. Excuse me, and we also have a Facebook group of Reddit group or our discord. They are very easy to find. If you search world anvil, you will find us 182 00:41:35.150 --> 00:41:44.188 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: and there is a great place to ask other users for feedback as well, because, you know, we can tell you we can tell you our opinion opinion. But 183 00:41:44.600 --> 00:42:03.239 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yeah, you can ask other people as well. Thank you so much for listening. I hope this has been useful and interesting. We certainly, you know we we do our best we'd love to answer your questions now and if you are interested in a well ample membership. You can use Pwa fantasy 24. As was saying yesterday, we need to make these more 184 00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:14.260 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: speakable. It was quite long fantasy, poor fantasy, fantasy, 24 for 60% of annual membership. If if 185 00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:20.709 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: if that flexible, if if you like the look, if you want to try it out, and this will be live for like 7, 2 h. Yes, yeah. 186 00:42:20.850 --> 00:42:29.749 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Oh, actually, until Sunday, Sunday. Oh, okay, so maybe more than 7. Yeah. Sunday until the end of the week. I'm guessing right? Yeah, that was the idea. Yeah, they got. They go low on. They've got fun to see. Week. 187 00:42:29.900 --> 00:42:37.902 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Yes, that is very true. Yeah, alright. So some good questions. Questions, why don't you find some? I haven't right yet. 188 00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:45.319 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: okay, Maria L. Says, can you give us a list of the things we will need before we start. World Angle. 189 00:42:47.590 --> 00:42:49.980 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: You need to sign up for an account, that's all you need. 190 00:42:50.140 --> 00:43:10.680 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: You don't need to have anything ready. I was obviously you don't have anything ready. And honestly, the the thing I would suggest that is, once you create your worlding will done, Bill. Yet to Meta, if you have not done whole building before, or you have done some whole building, but you would like to put some bases. Starting with filling the beta, the meta is gonna be definitely the best thing you can actually do for yourself. Yeah, absolutely. 191 00:43:10.680 --> 00:43:35.070 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So we also have right of writers. Workflow. That literally takes you through the steps. If you follow that writers workflow, you will be able to to to see the recommended steps. Everybody is different. You don't have to follow it. There's no world police told off if you don't follow it. But Dimi is showing you now where the Meta is. That's always where we recommend you start. If you're building a new world 192 00:43:35.070 --> 00:43:56.919 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: when you're starting, Janet, think your team has done a long amount of work, necessarily of creating a learn section here. So this area here, the workflows, is definitely your beginning, and this article, probably, for you, well done me for writers, is going to be a very good start to understand actually what you're doing and what you should be doing when you start working. Essentially, it literally walks you through the steps, and there's more information there as well. Yes, we are also 193 00:43:57.160 --> 00:43:59.360 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: just about to release a course 194 00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:06.319 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: which is a Get started world building course. And it also helps you with the first steps of world ample. So if you go to worldamble.com forward slash 195 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:31.210 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: courses, you can sign up for that. We will send you an email when it's ready. We won't do anything else with your email. We're in Europe. We're not even allowed to if we wanted to. But we will send you an email to let you know that course is ready. So you could take that course and get started. Both worldbuilding and world angling, and there will be a lot more courses coming up ahead. So well done. Com slash courses is a good way to start to get information and learn more, you know, for free, essentially, we'll keep it for free as with the amazing people 196 00:44:31.210 --> 00:44:35.030 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: for Pwa here, of course. 197 00:44:35.030 --> 00:44:37.550 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So data? Jess asks, 198 00:44:38.180 --> 00:45:04.819 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: is there an app for this or PC. Software? Asking, as I get random ideas at random places, it'd be great if I can open the app and add the new idea. So good. The answer is, gold. Danville is a website. First of all, we do not have an app, but and I will show you right now if I actually can go. Downville is optimized in the new version for Mobile as well. Mobile, where the hell is the 199 00:45:05.910 --> 00:45:07.190 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: more tools. 200 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:14.660 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Here you are. They are changing the place of things all the time. This is chrome changing the light bulbs on the chrome browser. Here we are. 201 00:45:14.660 --> 00:45:42.889 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Well done, Bill, in mobile mode. Here you are. And I can actually put actually. So we have a lot of people who use worldamble as a as a mobile website. We have people who write their novel on world amble as a mobile website. But, as you said, sorry just to clarify because it's an important tool. If you actually want to keep notes on the go, you click on this button here that you you cannot see. You go here, click notes, and you ping the notes down here, and you open up. Click on that. You put 202 00:45:43.240 --> 00:45:44.779 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: note for thing. 203 00:45:44.930 --> 00:45:49.740 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: This is an idea from the bus or 204 00:45:49.790 --> 00:45:57.710 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: in the toilet, whatever this might be, and that's pretty much it it's saved. And now you have your note here, and you will never lose it. 205 00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:13.320 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Yep, so yes, you can create notes from world angle. It's made to create the quick notes on the go, because we have those as well. And yeah, because it is browser-based. That means anywhere you have Internet, you have world angle. 206 00:46:13.460 --> 00:46:24.439 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: It's not stuck on a laptop that can get stolen. It's not stuck on your PC. That can die and you lose all your files. Everything is accessible from the Internet, which means you can get to everything. 207 00:46:25.869 --> 00:46:54.420 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: let's have a look, we have a question here. Do maps help with distance measurements, distance measurements soon so very that soon that I was sitting in down with my ux designer myself, because I'm U extensor as well. And we actually designed the feature to be put actually in the new update for maps we call Atlas, which will be starting on Q. 3. And we're hoping to have by Q. 4 or Q, one of 1225 out, probably. Q. 4. But yeah, I'm trying to be very pessimistic on my estimation. Generally speaking, you will learn not all of me. But yes. 208 00:46:56.966 --> 00:47:01.243 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: looking look can look in also. Hi, Sam! Nice to see you. 209 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:08.628 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: okay. Another question. Yes, we are web based. Everything is web based. 210 00:47:10.910 --> 00:47:39.890 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: my question is, well, that was amazing. I'm a screenwriter, says Vicki Mcmilliams, I see so many elements I could use are there only plans to incorporate screenplay features into world? So that is actually a feature that was asked by the community for manuscripts to be able to actually have. I mean, honestly, I will not make say that I'm smart about this, but I know there are actually specific way to write scripts, and we want to implement that we are obviously still working on it. But it is one of the features that is slated to potentially be thought for the next of it. 211 00:47:39.890 --> 00:47:59.130 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Manuscripts during the next part of the year. So that's what I can say about that. I'm not 100% certain. There will be other core discussions in the company in the community about it. But there are people who definitely asked it and want to investigate this heather round says, are there free plans with limited access? You can go sign up for one right now, if you would like to. 212 00:47:59.411 --> 00:48:26.459 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We have a question here. Blah blah blah! Will there be a mobile app in the future? Yes, it will not have the full power of world anvil. Yeah, it is like, some things are just too big to fix. But we can think of the things as it was said before about things that you do on the go, or a little bit more advanced and versus going on the go. But you know, if there will be some functionality there. Yeah, Anna asks, does your timeline work with a created calendar? 213 00:48:26.560 --> 00:48:50.590 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Why, yes, it does. You can create calendars on world amble. That is one of our features. You can create your own fantasy calendar and you can make that kind of fancy, or you can keep that kind of simple, and that will integrate with your timeline, and that will show your your events within the calendar function. Timeline has also itself a lot of very fancy features that we haven't divved into. You can create. 214 00:48:50.850 --> 00:49:03.879 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: If you're familiar with Tolkien, you can create different areas as ages, and then you can have, you know, restarting your number in years, so you can have year one of the first age, and then you can have year one of the second age. So it restarts counting again. 215 00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:28.879 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: There's a lot of different things that you can do both with calendars and timelines. So if you're getting fancy with time. Well, that will support that. Yes, I I would like to say something. We have not shown you. All the features will go down. There are a lot more. And there are 2 things I need to tell you about this a lot more, but you don't have to use them. They're they're just in the case that you want to use them. But also we don't want to actually like just overwhelm you. There is a lot of things there. Just keep on the simple things 216 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:51.830 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: well done. Well, articles, maps, timelines, will give you 9% of the way there most of the time. Everything else is extra. When you actually get more like advanced and more exactly. Christine says, I don't want to get distracted from writing my story. Can I disable functions? So my page is very streamlined. Yes, we have a focus mode on timelines where you can strip off everything, and all you can see is your text. 217 00:49:51.830 --> 00:50:03.390 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: So if that's what you want. That is completely possible. Yeah, there are multiple ways of doing that. So case by case in manuscript, you can actually just hide everything. So you. When you're at your novel, you won't see anything else 218 00:50:03.390 --> 00:50:25.309 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: on articles. There is a focus mode. You can actually hide everything else as well, and we're doing it even better. There is a release of becoming within a month and a half from now, not even a month like less than a month and a half from now that will actually give you that even better. Like the writing experience of all time, it will become exponentially better. We just get a presentation with our team. Today, people who are actually just hooraying essentially in the meeting kind of thing. 219 00:50:25.310 --> 00:50:35.459 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And also we're introducing within the next one to 2 months a new feature we call simple and advanced mode, that will allow you to literally go to simple mode, and just like 220 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:44.099 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: like either, scrape out everything you do not want to see in front of you, or you believe you're not ready for kind of thing. So yes, we're working on that absolutely. We understand it? 221 00:50:44.439 --> 00:50:50.010 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We have a we have a a developer in the chat. Who says, Is there an Api? 222 00:50:50.610 --> 00:51:05.429 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: And it is fully Crud Api that you can actually use. However, you want to. You will need to actually get the key for an application if you want to use it. But yes, there is one. Yes, Thomas says, can anyone discover my world articles, or only those with the link? 223 00:51:06.005 --> 00:51:25.990 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: If your hold is public, everybody can discover it. If your hold is private. Only people who actually have access to it can actually access it, of course. Yeah. So you can put it private. So nobody can say except you. You could leave it public, so everyone can see it, or you can give exclusive access to certain people to see it. You really control completely who sees yourself? 224 00:51:30.870 --> 00:51:37.399 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Catherine Huxstep says I started building a world, but I want to delete it. And then it takes me. 225 00:51:37.640 --> 00:52:03.640 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Okay. So the the question there is, how do I delete my world? Go to the learn section, and that will give you all the support you need. You can, by the way, always email us at Wellam contact@worldapple.com. If you have support questions and we will always make sure that you get answers, okay, so we're never gonna leave you on your own. We're always gonna try and help you if we can. But yeah, that is where you delete your world. Dimitris is just taking you there. That's via world settings. And you can see things settings 226 00:52:03.950 --> 00:52:24.060 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: advanced delete world. Yeah, it's got instructions there, so you might need to read the instructions to make sure you have followed the instructions deleting is a destructive action, and we do intentionally make it slightly. We make it hard to delete things by accident actually is is the best way of putting that, because 227 00:52:24.100 --> 00:52:28.343 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: we don't want you to delete your stuff by accident. That would be terrible. 228 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:38.560 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Christine has a question. If we use historical sources for our world building. I do, too. How do you suggest best incorporating your sources? 229 00:52:38.580 --> 00:52:54.648 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Well, one way of doing that is literally just to copy the information into an article. I wrote, I write fantasy mainly. But I've written historical fiction as well, and that's one of the ways I've done that I've essentially copied the pertinent information into an article. And 230 00:52:55.450 --> 00:53:20.349 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: How do you say then, added the link, where I could read more if I want to get back to that source again. So I've used it essentially as a as a wiki, to organize the information that is important to me, and to keep track of my sources. But also, I think that every historical novel we have things that are more detailed for your story. So, for example, you want to write Benjamin Franklin. You might write the introduction from Wikipedia, he may be, have a link to Wikipedia, but also have all the things that we are changing to the character or the President to your story. 231 00:53:20.350 --> 00:53:26.539 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: essentially so creating an article for Benz, I mean, Franklin is a really good way to start essential, and you can link things out. 232 00:53:26.540 --> 00:53:51.190 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Deborah Edwards has a similar question about historical fiction. Yes, world ample works, great for historical fiction where it's earth, but a different period in fact, slight, nerd, alert. Here I come from a family of nerdy archaeologist people. And one of the things that we did early on with World anvil is, we sat down with my mom, who was a very eminent archaeologist and looked at how you could create fictional, sorry historical worlds on world anvil, a modern. 233 00:53:51.190 --> 00:54:05.118 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: all those kinds of worlds, because there is a lot of information you need to keep track of. And it's really useful, for that like historical fiction is notorious for having a lot of information to keep track of. So that 234 00:54:05.710 --> 00:54:08.012 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yeah limit asks, 235 00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:34.250 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: can you write it from scratch? Or does it have to already be uploaded and just used for editing. Nope, you can absolutely write your novel from scratch. That's what I do. I use the planning tools to do the planning bits, and then I use the writing tools to do the writing bit and you can then, publish on World Anvil, or you can export to wherever you want to do whatever you want with your work? 236 00:54:34.564 --> 00:54:57.799 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Blum Blum, does it work for serial fiction, tracking the individual books, and how they follow one another. Yes, and I do recommend. If people have serial serial novels, to create an article that says, What order should I read this series in, and then have the books one by one you can put in the covers. You can do the read more you can add by links if they're not on world amble for purchase. 237 00:54:57.900 --> 00:54:59.970 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: You can set all of that up. 238 00:55:01.990 --> 00:55:03.900 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: yes, I have answered that question. 239 00:55:04.662 --> 00:55:11.899 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Can it create alternate and parallel dimensions? Yes. Well, so one of the things I would say is 240 00:55:12.210 --> 00:55:15.440 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: on World Angle. If it's related. 241 00:55:15.500 --> 00:55:39.482 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: it's one world. So if you were going to make the marvel universe. It would all be one world on world anvil, because it is a single narrative setting. So you do not need to make multiple worlds for each planet, for example, everything goes under one world angle world. And yes, the whole point of it is that it does support parallel worlds and those kinds of things. 242 00:55:40.220 --> 00:55:43.245 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: just going through checking the questions. 243 00:55:47.500 --> 00:56:13.890 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I've created notebook. So it's Bobby, and I've added pages for one of my worlds. But I want to create a second and separate notebook for a second world. You can do that very easily. Yes, so notebooks hidden actually. But essentially, as Janet said, notebooks are by account. So the easiest way to actually fix that is to go here, click here, create a new notebook and then create your sections. New pages. So this is in. There are 3 levels. The first level is hidden sometimes, but essentially 244 00:56:13.900 --> 00:56:17.010 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: create a notebook, as I have actually here, like tens of them. 245 00:56:17.050 --> 00:56:20.780 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: sections on the notebook, and then pages in the notebook as well. So it's very easy to do. 246 00:56:27.609 --> 00:56:31.659 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: questions. Yeah. Some of them are slightly, confusingly written. 247 00:56:34.660 --> 00:56:36.270 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: okay, we answered that one 248 00:56:37.313 --> 00:57:06.396 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: a couple of people are asking, can we access our worlds? If you have, if we have no Internet? Currently not right now, although there is something will be considered in the future. We're going to focus into building a good platform first, that is, actually that be able to be accessed as most of the times when you're actually online. And then we'll suddenly consider the idea of actually having offline functionality, even if that's for viewing or searching, or something like that, but it is within actually the remit of of where we're going. For this 249 00:57:07.170 --> 00:57:09.990 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I am looking for 250 00:57:10.080 --> 00:57:11.850 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: can never find it when I want it. 251 00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:35.329 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: A blog about map making software. Why don't you? Continue with the questions and I will try. That would be wonderful. Thank you a couple of people have asked us, what map making software should we use? I have a whole blog about this. As I mentioned, there are at my count, at least 30 different map making softwares that specialize in different areas of map making from ship maps to city maps to 252 00:57:35.330 --> 00:57:50.819 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: auto, generated maps to maps that you can build yourself. Everybody wants something else. So we we just have. We have a blog of blogs that you can check out. And oh, Mike B. Is on it. Look at that! Thank you, Mike Bee, for finding that blog for me. You are amazing. 253 00:57:52.070 --> 00:57:57.889 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: we have a question from Amy B. Who asked, How complicated is it to learn this software? So 254 00:58:00.460 --> 00:58:06.610 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I would say, if you have used something like Microsoft word. 255 00:58:06.890 --> 00:58:10.520 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: most things will be fairly straightforward. 256 00:58:11.520 --> 00:58:22.060 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: We are also creating a course which will walk you step by step through, and we have a lot of support and tutorials. I would send you to that workflow 257 00:58:22.370 --> 00:58:38.740 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: it. What I would say is, do not expect that in 1 min you will have a world. It's not like sending a tweet. It takes some time to build a world just like it takes some time to write a novel that's not to say that. Well, that Will doesn't make it quicker, because it sure does 258 00:58:39.045 --> 00:58:58.594 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: but it is not the simplest software you find thing. It's not Peter, that's for sure, but it is actually can be very powerful if you give it a little bit of time, like if you really sit, and for a little bit of time and sit, you can do it. I know that Tom is up there, which actually means we're almost. 259 00:58:58.900 --> 00:59:23.102 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: I would like to remind you last time, guys, if you want to actually get anything like a membership people done, we have a 60% offer right now, 6% offer is not something we do very normally, but we do it with cost. Writing 8 is somebody is is a good organization we really respect. And we love actually coming here to talk to you. So this is for you, and with that I will actually hand it over to Tom. Because, Tom, the last thing I know that anybody wants is to overrun. We're making other things 260 00:59:23.340 --> 00:59:27.679 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: because we do the same thing somewhere, places to go and worlds to build exactly. 261 00:59:27.680 --> 00:59:46.173 Tom Wilde: Honestly, I think that everyone will be quite happy to have around that there's so much love. I think you've blown more than a few minds today in the community such a great session. Fascinating. I love them out so. My God, I could spend days in there. I just was a huge thank you. We we love what you guys do. Thank you for generously spending some of your time with us today. 262 00:59:46.420 --> 00:59:47.979 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Thank you for keeping us. 263 00:59:47.980 --> 01:00:04.329 Tom Wilde: You. You're more than welcome. I put some links for everyone in the chat, so you'll see the offers. You'll also see where you can find a replays on the fancy week Hub and the community. You can find those links again in a chat. But just go to community and you find everything you need. There. 264 01:00:04.630 --> 01:00:18.290 Tom Wilde: guys, thank you, everybody, one and all, for joining us today to kick off day 3. We love having you here enjoy the rest of the day. There's a great sessions coming up throughout the day Demetrius and Janet. Thank you once again, and I look forward to seeing you both soon. 265 01:00:18.290 --> 01:00:22.459 Dimitris Havlidis & Janet Forbes: Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon. Guys. Enjoy the week.