return to help The Process of Constructing a Train
  1. Each chapter in a train at Story Train is illustrated by a picture from the Picture Sampler. However, the first chapter in a train can be illustrated instead by your own drawing.

    See the layout of the "start a train" screen
    See how to send your own picture

  2. You select a picture and write a story. It's like creating a chapter in a picture book.

  3. Your story will become a car in a story train, and will be shown on the web. To read the story, click the button.

  4. Your train will be continued by other children.
    Of course, you can add a chapter to someone else's story train. To add a car, click the button.

    See the layout of the "add a car" screen
    The second car in any train is illustrated by your selection of a picture from the Picture Sampler. If you want to send your own picture, you will need to send it when you build the first chapter in a new train.

  5. Now we see a two-car-train:

  6. A third chapter adds the final car, and finishes the train. When a train is completed, it gets placed on the tracks.
    Of course, you can finish a train by writing the last chapter.

    See the layout of the "finish a train" screen