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Give each entry the chapter that reveals it, and add a later detail when readers learn more. Use the name readers know at that point.
Your reader guide
9 entries in the guide4 entries and 2 later details held back
Use the last chapter this audience has read, numbering straight through the series. Anything after it is left out of every export, not hidden inside the file.
This is what readers get. Your host or editor may change the fonts and spacing, so check it there too.
The Ashfall Ledger: reader guide
Through chapter 5. If you have not finished chapter 5, this guide will spoil chapters you have not read.
Who is who, where things are, and how the System works, for readers who are caught up.
Characters
Mara Venn
Chapter 1: A field surgeon who survived the Ashfall. She took her first Contract to keep her clinic on Cinder Row open.
Chapter 3: She overspent on Borrowed Strike and fell into the red.
Tobin Reed
Chapter 2: Mara’s partner on Contracts. He carries the supplies and most of the bad jokes.
Places
Cinder Row
Chapter 1: The last street in the district with running water, and the home of Mara’s clinic.
Sealed Zone
Chapter 3: Ground the System cannot reach. Credit does not refill inside one.
The Hollow Exchange
Chapter 4: A market in a drained bank vault where survivors trade Contracts.
System
Borrowed Strike
Chapter 2: Spends 8 Credit to double the damage of one hit. Twice per fight.
Credit
Chapter 1: What every skill spends. The System lends it, and the balance can fall below 0.
Chapter 3: Below 0 a character is in the red: -2 to every stat and no level-ups.
Chapter 5: At -20 or lower the debtor defaults.
Ledger Sight
Chapter 2: Spends 2 Credit to read a target’s Level and balance. It shows nothing on a Collector.
The Collector
Chapter 5: What the System sends after anyone who defaults. It spawns within the hour and hunts the debtor.
Held back from this guide
Only you see this list. None of it is in any export.
- Cinder Row MutualHeld back until chapter 6
- The AuditorHeld back until chapter 7
- Mara Venn, later detailHeld back until chapter 9
- Tobin Reed, later detailHeld back until chapter 11
- ForecloseHeld back until chapter 12
- Ilsa ReedHeld back until chapter 14
No held-back name appears in this guide.
The name check looks for full names only. A nickname or a reworded hint gets past it, so read the guide yourself before you post it.
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Nothing here publishes for you. Paste the guide or host the page, then post this beside it.
The Ashfall Ledger: reader guide through chapter 5. If you have not finished chapter 5, this guide will spoil chapters you have not read.
Where this lives: nothing is uploaded and there is no account or share link, so your entries never end up in a URL. Your draft stays in this browser, which is not a backup: clearing browser data or changing device loses it. Loading the example or starting blank clears the browser copy.
Questions about this tool
How does the guide keep later chapters out?
Anything revealed after your chosen chapter is left out of the export completely. It is not hidden with styling or tucked into the file for later. HTML, Markdown, and public JSON are all built from the same filtered list, and that list is what the preview shows. An entry with no name or no valid chapter number stays out until you fix it.
What can it not catch?
It cannot read your meaning. If an early entry hints at a later twist, that hint is published. The page does look for the full name of every held-back entry in the text you are about to publish, and it holds the export until you fix or confirm each match. A nickname or a reworded hint gets past that check, so read the guide yourself before you post it.
My readers are on different chapters. What should I do?
Make one export for each audience. If Royal Road is at chapter 40 and Patreon is at chapter 52, change the chapter and export again. The guide has one fixed chapter on purpose: a slider for readers would need the later text inside the file, where anyone could find it. Every guide tells readers which chapter it covers and warns anyone who is behind.
Where are my entries kept, and who can see them?
Your draft stays in this browser so a refresh does not lose it. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and there is no share link. Browser storage is not a backup: clearing site data or changing device loses it, and a private window may not keep it at all. Save project downloads a private JSON file with every entry, spoilers included, so keep that file to yourself and give readers an export instead.
Can I import this into Reader Codex in WriteIDE?
No. The desktop app does not read these files, so neither the project nor the public JSON will import. Reader Codex builds from the story you track in WriteIDE, which is a separate project. You would carry anything you need over by hand.
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