Our frequently asked questions will help you how to write a short story on Alter Stories.
| 1 | Find your favorite stories based on genres. |
| 2 | To write a new Kickoff cq. Introduction or to see the latest published Kickoffs. |
| 3 | To see the latest published books or to start a new book. |
| 4 | Search with advanced search options. |
| 5 | To register your membership ot Alter Stories, only your e-mailadress is needed. |
| 6 | To login with your e-mail adress and password. |
| 7 | Wall of fame of the top rated stories. |
| 8 | Footer links to help you spread the word of Alter Stories. |
| 1 | Important for community building, so upload a nice characteristic photo. |
| 2 | To visit the social media of your selected writer. |
| 3 | Activity Feed monitors your favorite writers and readers. |
| 4 | As a writers of a kick off you have the choice to select maximal three genre to your story. As a writer of a chapter you choose one of the selected three genres. Every chapter you can change between these three. |
| 5 | Your bookmarked stories |
| 6 | Shows writers, stories and storylines, you added to your Favorites. |
| 7 | Your workspace to store your writings in draft and published. |
| 8 | For your messages to and from your favorite writers. |
| 9 | To edit your profile, eg. your photo, description or social media links. |
| 10 | Who you are in ….. characters or less. |
| 11 | To return to your personal dashboard and workspace. |
| 1 | Switch to fullscreen and back. |
| 2 | Title of the story |
| 3 | A few characteristic words about your story. |
| 4 | Your space to write your story. |
| 5 | To select one to four keywords that the next author has to use. Keep in mind: the more keywords you select, the more challenge for the next author. Use alphabetic characters for your keywords. |
| 6 | To select three genres, not less and not more. |
| 7 | To save drafts of your kickoff / introduction. Keep in mind: your text is not automatically saved. |
| 8 | To publish your Kickoff / book. After publishing you cannot change or remove your text. For severe mistakes use Report Content. [link toevoegen] |
| 9 | Add tags to label your story and improve the efficiency of the search function. Use only alphabetic characters for your tags. |
| 10 | Scroll up or down |
| 11 | Characters left, coutdown from 4000 characters |
| 1 | Switch to fullscreen and back |
| 2 | Story title and description |
| 3 | Preceding story |
| 4 | You have to use the one to four keywords the preceding author has selected. |
| 5 | To select one to four keywords that the next author has to use. Keep in mind: the more keywords you select, the more challenge for the next author. Use alphabetic characters for your keywords. |
| 6 | The genres of the story |
| 7 | To save a draft of your follow-up. Keep in mind: your text is not automatically saved. |
| 8 | After 30 pages you can decide to finish the storyline. |
| 9 | To publish your follow up. After publishing you cannot change or remove your text. For severe mistakes use Report Content. [link toevoegen] |
| 10 | Add tags to label your story and improve the efficiency of the search function. Use only alphabetic characters for your tags. |
| 11 | 1500 characters to write your story. |
| 12 | Scroll up or down |
| 13 | Characters left, coutdown from 1500 characters |
| 1 | Switch to fullscreen and back. |
| 2 | Story title and description |
| 3 | To select finished stories. |
| 4 | Text of the story |
| 5 | The genres of the story |
| 6 | To inspire the next writer |
| 7 | Shows the awards you earned. |
| 8 | Continue this story |
| 9 | Scroll down or up the story. |
| 10 | Share story on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. |
| 11 | To add your favorite writer, kickoff, story or book to your personal dashboard. |
| 12 | To select the dyslexia view or use the report content function to send a report to the report center. |
| 13 | To award a writer for several qualities |
| 14 | To return to your personal dashboard and workspace. |
| 15 | To bookmark the story. You find the bookmark on your personal dashboard. |
| 1 | Click the Register link. |
| 2 | Enter your Username and E-mail. |
| 3 | Enter your Password |
| 4 | Click at Register for free, a confirmation mail is sent automatically to the e-mail adress you registered. |
| 5 | Look in your inbox for an email with the header ‘Confirm your registration’ from Alter Stories Support. |
| 6 | Open this e-mail, select ‘Click here to confirm’ to activate your account. |
| 1 | Go to your profile page and click on the Edit button to open the page at which you edit your profile. |
| 2 | Click the Add, Change or Remove button to edit your profile picture. |
| 3 | Upload a new profile picture from your computer. |
| 4 | Click the Save button to save your profile picture. |
| 1 | Go to your profile page and click on the Edit button to open the page at which you add your social media links. |
| 2 | Select one of the input fields and copy-paste your social media link. |
| 3 | Click the Save button to save your social media links. |
| 1 | Select the user you want to follow. |
| 2 | Click on any story of that user. |
| 3 | Click ‘Add favorite’ in the menu. A submenu appears. |
| 4 | Select ‘Author’ in the submenu. |
| 1 | Click on the rearrange icon  to drag and drop the block with your favorit genres to the top of the page. |
| 1 | Select the story and click in the top left corner ‘Bookmark for later’. |
| 2 | At your profile dashboard you click the tab ‘Bookmarks’ for the bookmarked stories. |
| 1 | Select the story you like and click in the menu on ‘Add Favorites’. |
| 2 | Select in the submenu Author, Kickoff, Story or Books. |
| 3 | At your profile dashboard you click the tab ‘Favorites ’ for your favorit author, kickoff, story or books. |
| 1 | Use the Search field to find the user you want to contact. |
| 2 | Use Filter options ‘Authors’ , enter the name and click SEARCH. |
| 3 | The name of the author appears in the left column of the page. Click on the name. |
| 4 | Click in the next page on the button "Contact". |
| 5 | Enter a subject and your message and click SEND. |
| 6 | You will receive an email with the author’s reply to your message. Besides that you will find this reply in your personal dashboard under the tab "conversations". |
| 7 | 7 Your icon shows an exclamation mark for any new messages. |
| 1 | Click on "Kickoffs" in the top menu and select "Start Writing" to open the page at which you write. |
| 2 | Enter Title and Description of your story. |
| 3 | Write the kickoff/introduction to the story in less than 4000 characters. |
| 4 | Add one to four keywords for the next writer. |
| 5 | Add one to four tags. |
| 6 | Select three genres for the next chapters of your story. |
| 7 | SAVE AS DRAFT if you want to review or continue later. |
| 8 | Click SUBMIT to publish your kickoff/introduction. | Tip 1 | Any introduction has to contain: —some background information; —the main character(s); —the first step of the storyline; |
| Tip 2 | Tips for an attractive kickoff/introduction: —Try to catch ‘world into word’. —Write short sentences with compact information. —Pull the reader into the story. —End with a cliffhanger to challenge the following writer. —Always check your spelling and grammar before you publish. |
| 1 | Clicking on the WRITE FOLLOW UP button under the story. |
| 2 | Read the required keywords for your story. |
| 3 | See what genres are selected for the story. |
| 4 | Enter your chapter with the required keywords in less than 1500 characters. |
| 5 | Add one to four keywords for the next writer. |
| 6 | Add one to four tags. |
| 7 | SAVE AS DRAFT if you want to review or continue later. |
| 8 | Click SUBMIT to publish your chapter. | Tip 1 | Tips for a powerful chapter: —Write short sentences with compact information. —Try to catch ‘world into word’. —End with a cliffhanger to challenge the following writer. —Always check your spelling and grammar before you publish. |
| 1 | Go to your profile page and click on the Edit button to open the page at which you arrange to publish automatically. |
| 2 | Scroll down on that page and slide the button ‘Auto publish’ to the right. |
| 1 | Go to your personal dashboard. |
| 2 | Click on the tab "My Work". |
| 3 | Here you find your kickoffs, stories and books in draft and published. |
| 1 | Find a story that you think that earns a award. |
| 2 | Click on ADD AWARD to open the page with the awards you can choose. |
| 3 | 3 Click on Keywords, Follow-up or Plot twist to select the type of award. After that click on ADD AWARD. |
| 1 | Click on ‘Share’ in the menu just above the story. |
| 2 | Select Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. |
| 1 | Click on ‘Options’ in the menu just above the story. |
| 2 | Select ‘Dyslexia view’. |
| 1 | Scroll down to the bottom of the page with the story. |
| 2 | Click on ‘Add an Inspiration’ to open a field in which you can enter your inspiration. |
| 3 | Click on INSPIRE to publish the tekst with your inspiration. |
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