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Spinner of Yarns, Weaver of Wonders and our Guide to the imaginary realms and vibrant characters of your stories.
Welcome to World Anvil! We're absolutely thrilled to meet you!

We'll provide you with all the writing tools you’ll need! Organize your series bible, write and publish your novel in our novel writing software, and build your author platform and creative career with our publishing tools and community features!

Build vibrant locations to set your scenes, keep track of your plots, timelines and histories, and follow your characters on their epic journeys across your maps! Never lose your ideas about a side-character or historical event, and embed inspiring images and music directly into your world to re-capture the mood!

World Anvil is an all-in-one tool that puts world building and novel planning side by side. Features such as maps, timelines and family trees help you keep the fabric of your world in order and can be linked from any other notes or articles you write while planning. All of your creations are searchable, which means you can recover that crucial piece of information with just a couple of clicks.

World Anvil is the ULTIMATE writing toolset
created for authors of all types of fiction

... and with it you can...

BUILD YOUR WORLD

Build the complete, living world behind your writing! Track everything from character motivations and subplots to timelines and geography, and keep everything private whilst you work. Reference your world bible whenever you want to write or get inspired!

SHOWCASE YOUR IDEAS

Raise hype for your next release to boost its success! Your fans will be thrilled to explore the world you've created! You can share stunning character profiles, maps and timelines, and invite your fans to comment and get involved while they wait for the next installment!

SECURE YOUR PLANS

No more lost notebooks! Your work is backed up on eight different servers multiple times a day, and you can export your world too - so you'll never lose your progress, whatever happens! Oh, and if something's set to private, not even WE can see it!

WRITE WITH OTHERS

Want to give an editor access to your worldbible? Or maybe you want to co-author, or work as part of a writing team? Now you can do that wherever you are in the world! Give different levels of access to different writers, and even let your fans contribute fanfic!

MONETIZE YOUR CREATIONS

Monetize your worldbuilding to kickstart your creative career and support yourself between book releases! Give exclusive access to extra content - like character secrets, short stories or advanced chapters - to your Patrons, supporters and paying customers!

JOIN OUR WRITING COMMUNITY

Join a community of over 750,000 worldbuilders and solve problems together! Make friends with like-minded writers, and get inspired by author's interviews, community and competitions!

"“Whatever you’re working on, World Anvil gives you a repository to keep your worldbuilding! World Anvil does it better, easier and has more functionality than anything else. It’s easy to use, and makes it really easy for me to sit down and just write or worldbuild!” "
- Chris Fox, best-selling author and self-publishing guru

Features for Writers

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Worldbuild quickly and easily, and NEVER LOSE AN IDEA!

Build up your book and series bible, and develop your world setting quickly and easily. Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world - from continents to characters!

Our professionally designed worldbuilding templates will inspire you and help you expand and refine your worldbuilding. Embed interactive maps, and include images, music and sound effects to capture the mood of your characters, locations and scenes.

A complete novel writing software

Manuscripts, our complete novel writing software, is custom designed to help you plot, write and edit your books and novels!

Use the focus mode to see only your manuscript and write in flow. Seamlessly search your worldbuilding bible as you write, using split-screen viewing, and even edit as you go, all from the same tab! And write from anywhere, even your mobile phone, with our cloud based solution!

Export to a variety of industry-standard formats, or publish with us and monetize your way!

Digital Publishing & Monetization

World Anvil is the perfect place to build your author’s platform, reward your fans and monetize your work, your way!

Our sleek digital publishing platform allows you to release your books or stories chapter by chapter, and even add music, audio books, images and more. And you can release snippets of worldbuilding information between releases, to tantalise your fans and keep them hooked on your world!

Most importantly, YOU control who can see what, and you can monetize YOUR way. Give early or exclusive access to Patrons, pre-order customers and superfans, or sell access via your online store front!

Design Interactive Maps

Maps are fantastic writing tools… but interactive maps are even better! Link your scenes, characters and cities directly to your map, or even link maps to other maps, to track the whole scope of your series bible, from your world map all the way down to the city streets where your drama unfolds!

The interactive maps feature will inspire you during your writing process, allowing you to quickly create articles you can flesh out later. And there's nothing like a great map to throw your deep into the story, and make them feel at home in your world setting! Your readers can explore your world in an interactive way like never before, and immerse themselves in your creation. And you can choose exactly what you want to show them, and which spoilers you want to hide!

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Cross Reference

Worlds are interconnected, and the rigorous linking system in World Anvil helps you reflect that! You can:

Quickly link in articles you've already written
Create links for articles you've not yet created (these are added to the ToDo list!)
Create an article on the fly whilst writing another article and then link it in!
Create an article whilst writing another article and then link it in!

You can capture all your ideas in your worldbuilding bible, and never lose track of your flashes of inspiration again!

Put your book’s history in order

Keep track of everything that's happened in your world of your writing - from histories to mysteries - with Timelines!

Use parallel timelines to track events in a specific country or for a single character.

Use our fictional calendar tracker to track your days and months, phases of your moons, recurring events and more!

Ideas at your fingertips

When you're writing in flow, you need to have your information at your fingertips.

World Anvil allows you to search and find everything in your world quicker than ever, even from our novel writing software!

Search your whole world by typing 3 letters in any search bar. Mark your articles with tags to find them even more easily!

Organize your notes

Organization is beautiful! Keep your writing organized with nested categories - and nest articles under articles - to create a stunning table of contents for your world!

Display the most important categories on your world's main page with book-style covers, so you can find them easier, or to help your readers dive into your world.

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