Announcing our Scribophile Integration

We are super excited to announce our first ever integration with a partner service: Scribophile. If you are unfamiliar with them, Scribophile is an excellent critiquing community for serious writers.

I’ve been a member since long before Jen and I started Fablehenge. I’ve made friends with authors and critiqued works that have since been published. Of course, I’ve also received a ton of extremely helpful advice on my own work, including Fablehenge itself! When we first launched, the Scribophile forum was one of the first places we announced the product, and a lot of Fablehenge’s design was influenced by alpha and beta users who came to us through our Scribophile forum posts about the early product.

We wanted to take this synergy further! Our new Scribophile integration reduces the friction of sharing content from Fablehenge to Scribophile and integrating the resulting feedback with your work, eliminating the need for copy-pasting or juggling multiple windows.

Once you’ve connected your Scribophile account to Fablehenge and critiqued a few scenes to generate karma, you can share your work on Scribophile directly from the Fablehenge app. Simply select the scene you would like to share and click the “Share with Scribophile” button in the right sidebar. You’ll be redirected to Scribophile to fill out details about your scene and novel and choose which of the Scribophile spotlights to place it in.

Then comes the hardest part: waiting.

It usually takes a few hours for your work to make its way up Scribophile’s queue into the main Spotlight. Eventually, critiques will start showing up inside Fablehenge. Here’s an example of an inline critique in Fablehenge:

Green represents inserted text or comments, red represents deleted text suggestions, and yellow represents text that was highlighted.

Note: Bruce Aldritch is a fake Scribophile account I made for testing and demoing this integration. Real Scribophile critiquers typically have more insightful feedback!

We want to extend heartfelt thanks to Alex Cabal not only for all the work he did to plan and support the Scribophile side of this integration, but also for creating and maintaining the Scribophile service itself. He has been wonderful to work with, as is his product. Thank you, Alex!

We can’t wait to see how folks use this integration. Indeed, I can’t wait to get more of my own work on there. I’m over 20k words into my November commitment to finish a book, and all of those words will be making their way to Scribophile. I hope to see you there!