Under heavy development. Expect things to move, change, and occasionally break.
Written by anyone.Held to a standard.
Narraetic is free serial fiction, submitted by readers like you. Every story is read by a person before it lists — and the tools on both sides are built like the work matters.
No account needed to read. Really.
- Free to read, no chapter paywalls
- No ads inside a chapter
- Writers keep every right they came with
The standard
Free to publish isn’t the same as anything goes.
Open submissions are the point — anyone can put a story up, with no agent, no following and no fee. What keeps that from turning into a slush pile is what happens next.
A real bar to clear
Every submission is read before it is listed — spelling, structure, and whether the first chapter actually works. Free to publish is not the same as anything goes.
Ranked by reading, not posting
Placement comes from finish rates and time spent, not upload frequency. Nobody climbs by flooding the feed, and nothing is boosted for money.
Notes back, either way
Listed or not, a writer gets written feedback from the review. No silent rejections and no leaderboard to game.
Labelled honestly
Length, completion status and content warnings sit on the cover — before chapter one, not after chapter forty.
What you actually get
Tools that take the work seriously.
For writers
An editor you’d actually draft a novel in.
Most platforms give you a comment box with a publish button. This is a real writing environment — chapter structure, revision history, offline drafting, and a focus mode that removes everything but the sentence you're on.
- Chapter outlining and drag-to-reorder
- Full revision history — restore any past version
- Writes offline, syncs when you're back
- Per-chapter word goals and session tracking
Chapters
1. The Salt Flats
3,140
2. What the Tide Left
2,890
3. Low Water
3,402
4. The Keeper's Log
1,847
5. Untitled
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Chapter 4
The Keeper’s Log
The lamp had been out for six days before anyone on the mainland thought to ask about it.
She kept the log the way her father had — one line a day, weather first, then whatever else was true.
For readers
Reading statistics that belong to you.
Hours, finish rates, pace, and where your year actually went. Private by default, exportable whenever you want, and never sold or handed to a recommendation engine you didn't ask for.
- Hours, streaks and finish rate across every title
- Genre breakdown and reading pace over time
- Export the whole history as CSV, any time
- Private by default — sharing is opt-in, per stat
Your reading year
Private by defaultHours read
128
Finished
34
Finish rate
82%
Day streak
46
Hours read per month
Last 12 monthsWhere the hours went
| Month | Hours |
|---|---|
| September | 38 |
| October | 52 |
| November | 44 |
| December | 61 |
| January | 49 |
| February | 72 |
| March | 58 |
| April | 66 |
| May | 54 |
| June | 79 |
| July | 63 |
| August | 71 |
For everyone
Mature work, handled like adults.
Plenty of good fiction is explicit. Pretending otherwise pushes it into unlabelled corners, which serves nobody. It gets its own clearly-marked section instead — off unless you turn it on, and labelled specifically enough to be useful.
- Off by default; absent from search and recommendations
- Specific labels, not one blanket 'mature' flag
- Filter each label independently
- Mislabelling is the fastest way to get pulled
Content settings
Show mature titles
Off by default. Never appears in search or recommendations while off.
Labels are specific, not blanket
Filter each one independently — a reader avoiding violence should not have to give up everything else.
Writers self-label on submission; review confirms it before a title lists. Mislabelling is the one thing that gets a story pulled outright.
Both sides of the page
Respect for whoever’s holding the book.
Read without an account
The whole catalogue is open. An account saves your place and your shelves — it is never the price of the first chapter.
Statistics that are yours
Hours read, finish rate, pace, genre spread. Private by default, exportable whenever, never sold to anyone.
Know what you're starting
Completion status, chapter count and content warnings up front, so a forty-hour unfinished serial never surprises you.
Continue reading
Chapter 14 of 24The Salt Year
Imogen Vale
The Salt Year
Imogen Vale
“A lighthouse keeper's daughter counts the ships that never come back.”
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