A collaborative creative writing app where stories are built line by line.

Contribute to multiplayer stories, seeing only what the previous author wrote. Modeled on the game exquisite corpse, each creation is gloriously unique!
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Watching the sky change, and the celestial bodies spinning in their graceful dance, my hopelessness suddenly turns to inspiration. I leap from my bed, energy thrumming in my bones, and I begintodancealong. I ignore every cry of my body for relief. It can hold me no more..
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The flowers were a labor of love. Each colorful blossom held the memories of the farmer's beloved wife and unborn child who both tragically perished all those years ago. Such precious plants could never be soled with the mundane crops.
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As she stared at the disk in the sky, her mismatched socks tickling her toes, it began to slowly rotate. As the disk spun on its axis, a beautiful, unearthly melody began to shake the very ground she stood upon. As if the diskwerearecord, and the world a gigantic phonograph.
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Her boss threw up her hands. “Renee! What am I going to do with this? Your side hustle is a problem. You need to choose.” Renee narrowed her eyes. “I don’t think so, Margo. Not unless you want me tellingBigEddie what you’re really doing here.” Margo gasped. “You wouldn’t!”
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“Honestly, Marc”, she said, “you have a problem. There are 3 boxes of clawmachineprizes down there. If you have that many hidden away, how many games are you losing? This is why you’re always broke. But the secrets are what really hurt me.” He frowned, began to speak, then
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The internetcrashed. The entire world was disconnected. The younger people had no idea how to find anything at all. The older people realized the libraries had been closed. Kubalada can up with a plan to re-connect the world.
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The squire went deep into the forests that edged the kingdom. There dwelled the old wizard Lacktous. Perhaps he knew of an antidote to cure the princess's sensitive tummy. The old man peeked from behind his door after the squire knocked. "What is it you seek?" Lacktous whispered.
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Giant block of cheese sacrifice to please the cow Gods who gave given us said cheese. Bless the cheese

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What is Byline?

A multiplayer creative writing experience where a group of authors creates a story, one line at a time.

How does it work?

Loosely based on exquisite corpse, each author writes a line having only seen the line directly before theirs. Once complete, the creator titles the story and shares it with the group.

Is this a game?

Yes! Get started by creating a story and sharing it with friends. Don't know any writers? No problem. Post your story to Byline and you'll meet some!

Who does the writing?

Public Stories

If you create a story (by clicking the new story button New Story Icon) and don’t invite other authors, then it posts publicly to Byline and can be contributed to by any author on the platform.

Private Stories

If you invite individual people (by username, email, or phone number) and make sure Plus others on Byline is deselected then your story becomes private and only those invited can contribute.

What's a breadcrumb?

Breadcrumbs give authors an opportunity to select a key word/phrase from their line that they think is important. Breadcrumbs are visible for the life a the story and can act as clues that offer additional context.

They are optional, but fun to add!

What's a sequel?

Sequels are stories spawned from the last line of other stories. To create a sequel go to the bottom of a finished story and select Write More → Create sequel based on this story.

What if I see something offensive?

If you see something that doesn't live up to our standards report it by clicking the next to any line.