Let friends read along while you write.

• Share with friends one at a time, as readers or commenters.
• Share every chapter, or only the ones that are ready.
• Your notes and research are never shared. Readers see the manuscript, nothing else.
• Removing a reader, or blocking them, ends their access at once.
• Everything stays private until you share it. Your profile never shows your manuscript’s text.

Readers select words and leave a comment on them, or mark them with a reaction. In the writing room, Review opens their notes beside the page and counts the ones still open, so you can work through them and mark each one done.

Ascrivia notes how far each reader got. In Review, every chapter has a strip showing where readers stopped and where they reacted, so a slow middle or a confusing chapter shows up as a pattern instead of a hunch. Readers are told you can see this.

Writing groups in Ascrivia can post a Beta readers wanted thread describing a draft, its genres and how many readers it needs. Writers offer to read; you choose who. Accepted readers can read and comment on the project, friends or not. A board gathers open requests from every group, so readers can find drafts in the genres they like.

Groups can also run a critique exchange: asking for critique costs a credit, and giving a real critique of someone else’s pages earns one. You can attach pages from a project to a thread for critique. Notes and research never come along.