A good title is important! Create an eye-catching title for your story, one that would make a person who sees it want to stop whatever they are doing and read it.

Publish under your name, twitter handle, secret agent name, or remain "Anonymous". If you include a twitter handle such as @billyshakespeare, when someone tweets your work you will get a lovely notification.

Use the editing area below the toolbar to write and format your writing. You can also paste formatted content here (e.g. from MS Word or Google Docs). The editing tool will do its best to preserve standard formatting--headings, bold, italic, lists, footnotes, and hypertext links. Click "Add Media" to upload images to include in your writing or choose from the media already in the media library (click on the tab labelled "media library"). You can also embed audio and video from many social sites simply by putting the URL of the media on a blank line. Click and drag the icon in the lower right to resize the editing space.

See details on the formatting tools in the editing tool tips.

Add any endnote / credits information you wish to append to the end of your writing, such as a citation to where it was previously published or any other meta information. URLs will be automatically hyperlinked when published.

You can upload any image file to be used in the header or choose from ones that have already been added to the site. Ideally this image should be at least 1440px wide for photos. Any uploaded image should either be your own or one licensed for re-use; provide an attribution credit for the image in the caption field below.

Provide full credit / attribution for the header image.

Check as many that apply.

Add any descriptive tags for your writing. Separate multiple ones with commas.

If you provide an email address when your writing is published, you can request a special link that will allow you to edit it again in the future.