There are certain passage names that have special meaning, and let you make your stories look more polished. The first is StoryTitle, which sets your story's title.

:: StoryTitle
Murder on the Orient Express

There are two others that appear at the top of your story. Unlike StoryTitle, if you leave them out, nothing is displayed.

:: StorySubtitle
an example story //of sorts//

:: StoryAuthor
by P.F. Wossname

These are passages just like another, so they can include links and formatting. Another special passage is StartPassages. It's never shown to the reader. Instead, any passages linked to it are displayed when a reader first begins the story. You can have as many links in this passage as you'd like.

:: StartPassages
[[Midnight]]
[[At the same time, you are considering]]

Finally, the StoryMenu passage lets you add items to the the menu that hovers in the upper-right corner of the page. These are displayed above the Restart Story link.

:: About the Author
P.F. Wossname is a pseudonym used in this example. He or she currently resides in Walla Walla, Washington.

:: StoryMenu
[[About the Author]]

Take care with the length of your menu items. A link will be displayed on a single line, even if it means that it will overlap your story's text.

Here's the complete source code for the story we've been working on. It demonstrates all the features you might use for a simple branching story:

:: StoryTitle
Murder on the Orient Express

:: StorySubtitle
an example story //of sorts//

:: StoryAuthor
by P.F. Wossname

:: StoryMenu
[[About the Author]]

:: StartPassages
[[Midnight]]
[[At the same time, you are remembering]]

:: About the Author
P.F. Wossname is a pseudonym used in this example. He or she currently resides in Walla Walla, Washington.
:: Midnight
It's a dark and stormy night aboard the Orient Express. You can't sleep; something about the motion of the train disturbed you subtly. So instead you have elected to spend the night in the dining car, sipping coffee and perusing [[the newspaper|The London Times]].

You hear the door to the car open behind you.
* [[Look up]]
* [[Continue reading]]

:: At the same time, you are remembering
Your fiancee, who you had left in London three days ago -- her blonde hair in particular, how it flowed in the perpetual breeze the train station had --

:: The London Times
If you believe what you read, the world is quiet. The //London Times'// front page is awash in some lurid tale of a fellow named [[John Lee|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_%27Babbacombe%27_Lee]] whose execution failed thrice, and thus proven innocent -- or at least innocent enough to serve a life sentence.

When it's compiled, it looks like this:

Notice the pink highlights? That's because those links don't go anywhere yet. You could use this source code as a jumping-off point — either by adding onto it, or changing the passages to match your own story.