Homepage
Login
New Post
Profile
I'm looking for a writing software that's user friendly and doesn't require endless tutorials to figure out.
Plotist seems to be a good start, but their timeline is too simple and doesn't even have actual date or time on it... Also there character profiling could be more organised and interactive with their system.
This would be perfect:
beautiful timeline with dates and time and clear overview of events for all the characters
a custom character profile interactive with the timeline (like a setup page with age, race, eye colour, hair colour, ext...)
clear separation in type of events (birthdays, deaths, marriage, own creations,...)
advance search engine within the system
not online....
.... and a lot more but let's start with this :-)
(2)More posts by @Jessie137
2 Comments
Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best
I suggest the Write Brother's line of software.
Writer's Dreamkit is the beginners version of Dramatica Pro, both of which are available for Macintosh (natively) and also Windows.
The primary feature of either version is their unique Story Engine, which is essentially a database consisting of a series of question chains which ask an in-depth series of questions designed to dig out of the author what they know about their story, but may not have actually written down or thought through completely.
These question-chains (about story, topics, as well as character motivations, methodologies, purposes, and evaluations, in addition to character development tools) are complemented by a series of specialized Reports which are designed to cross-index and cross-reference the various answers about the scenes, characters, and plot elements; all designed to reveal to the author aspects and relationships present or missing between the various elements of their story which may not have occurred to them.
There are many, myself included, which find these tools useful to brainstorming, story and character development tasks, as well as it being a handy central database of all the different chunks related to any given story.
It functions offline, though for those times when one is not offline, there is a useful and extensive online Theory book, which also has a lot of useful information.
In the past, I've used Aeon Timeline and found it fairly straightforward. It does have a lot of customizations so it took me a bit of poking around to see what all it could and after that I was able to add multiple timelines, characters, races, dimensions, etc. and surprisingly it can handle very large date ranges in the millions of years, which may be useful for some.
Aeon Timeline integrates well with Scrivener, a popular writing software.
Hope this is close to what you're looking for.
Terms of Use Privacy policy Contact About Cancellation policy © selfpublishingguru.com2024 All Rights reserved.