Comments on: StorYBook: a Free and Open-Source Tool for Organizing a Novel

By: Dan Sharp

Dan Sharp — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:25:12 +0000

Thanks for this one!

By: Spyder Z

Spyder Z — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:47:13 +0000

Heh, that’s what happens when I attempt to use new tags. ;P I was trying to do this… yWriter 5. Close Tag Phail for the win.

By: Spyder Z

Spyder Z — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:41:41 +0000

I’ve also been using for a while now and I must say that if you’re wanting not only the organization, but the actual writing to happen in one place, it’s definitely the way to go. ;P

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fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:22:25 +0000

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By: its free right? « no.plan.

its free right? « no.plan. — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:05:34 +0000

[...] last night i was thinking about some writing i had done a while back and that i should maybe get back to it. this morning i came across this, and having played around with it for a bit i’d recommend a dl. the simpsons demo looks pretty complicated but i’d recommending the review from fwg. [...]

By: jfjb

jfjb — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:04:27 +0000

In the days, I was disgusted by Dramatica; it didn’t bring me anything but headaches. I had to write everything twice: once in Dramatica, then in my story, and keeping tracks of what I was doing in between the two places — like keeping my accounting on Quickbooks, mostly wasting time duplicating what I was already doing by hand.

StoryBook doesn’t escape that crowd for me. Most of its basic features can be had with OpenOffice and some brain cells. Basically, though, it is a very good — and HUGE reporting — program for beginners as well as to visualize the status of whatever you entered yourself. Top it off with the price, it’s a winner compared to Dramatica.

My take, of course, for I may be wrong.
Surf’ up, dudes and dudettes!

By: Holla!

Holla! — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:46:01 +0000

I have to say, I had to Google twice for the site, then come here and check if the damn article had a link to the site. Way to go, having a TINY line at the END of the article is absolutely AWESOME.

By: Axel

Axel — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:05:25 +0000

Another program you can try is yWriter 5 which offers similar functionality. I have been keeping tabs on this for a few years now, and 5 is quite fully featured, plus it allows editing in situ.

I have recently started a pet project, and it really helps. No direct equivalent for the Who was where, when feature though that I can readily remember, BUT I am new to the program. Closest seems to be a feature tracking the viewpoint characters in each scene. The writer is a published author, so that says something.

http://www.spacejock.com

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DogSolitude » Blog Archive » StorYBook — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:34:24 +0000

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Storybook, herramienta opensource para novelistas | Aplicaciones y Web — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:29:04 +0000

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By: New tech meets old genre « Literary History and/as Media History

New tech meets old genre « Literary History and/as Media History — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:32:01 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:45:16 +0000

I still use the free software RoughDraft (Windows only), which is exceedingly simple but features a useful notepad on the right of the main text that makes for great random notes here and there, but they stay associated with that particular document and show up handily on the side every time you open your main document. The main text is rich text format (RTF) by default, and the notes are saved as plain text files, so if you stop using RoughDraft, you still can open everything on any operating system.

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Wed, 20 May 2009 11:48:53 +0000

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By: I19N

I19N — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:52 +0000

i am busy arranging plots,characters,scenes and worrying about the complexity of this software and and..i havent write any line yet!

but btw,good because it is free.