The words you'll see around Fictional Crowd. Each one links to where it's explained in full.
Things in Fictional Crowd
- Activity
- An activity is something participants do in a journey, like reading a chapter, answering a survey or joining a discussion.
- Journey
- A journey is a guided group experience around a story: a guide opens a project to readers, who join and take part in its activities together as the story unfolds.
- Profile
- Your profile is how other people on Fictional Crowd see you. Everything on it is public.
- Project
- A project is a story an author is writing on Fictional Crowd. It holds the story and its details, like genre and audience, and it's where journeys around the story begin.
Statuses and values
Journey: Reading Pace
- Slow
- New content now and then, at a relaxed pace.
- Medium
- New content at a steady, regular pace.
- Fast
- New content often, for readers who like to keep moving.
Journey: Status
- Draft
- Only you can see the journey, and you can change all of it.
- Open
- Other people can find and join the journey.
- Active
- The journey has started, and participants are taking part in its activities.
- Paused
- Participants can't take part in the journey's activities for now.
- Completed
- All activities are finished, and no further participation is possible.
- Archived
- The journey is no longer active and has been moved to the archive.
Project: Status
More terms
Sparks
Sparks are Fictional Crowd's in-app currency. Use them to support authors, unlock moments, and power your journey.
Streak
A streak counts the days in a row you did something meaningful on Fictional Crowd, like writing, publishing, joining a journey or completing an activity. Just opening the app doesn't count. Your writing streak counts the days in a row you wrote.
Writing day
A day you saved writing in one of your projects, in your own time zone. Every save counts, even one that only cuts or rewrites text, so tightening a draft is writing too.