At the kick-off, someone asked me about software for creating timelines...
These are both online timeline packages (both free).
You can also try:
- ywriter - novel writing software with story boarding and some support for timelines
- this list of novel-related software from the NaperWriMo wiki
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
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oct. 5, 2008 - 17 37
For any Mac OS X users in the house, I recommend Scrivener. It's a good planning program that also includes a word processor, so you can do all your writing in one program. :)
----------2003: Psion (16,613 words)
2004: The Burning Gears (27,461 words)
2005: Wanderer (2,374 words)
2006: Broken Worlds (52,866 words) and The Fourteenth Man (22,187 words)
2007: A Bit of Human Driftwood
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oct. 6, 2008 - 04 02
I want to second the recommendation of for any and all Mac OS X writers out there. It is a very extensive, yet simple to use piece of software which allows the user to organize and plan their novel in an outline form. There is a seperate section allowing room for researching and story bibling. Scrivener accepts all sorts of media imports (PDF, Images, audio, weblinks etc) so if you have a photo of a place you want to describe in the novel you can just drag and drop it to one of the pages instead of toggling back and forth between programs
It will cost a little bit of money ($39.95) but there is a 30 day free trial and the software is well worth it as a writing tool. I've purchased two licences (one for my desktop, the other for my laptop) and have most certainly gotten $80 worth of value out of the software. Probably the best investment I've made.
If anyone would like to see the software up close and live, please let me know and I will be more than happy to bring my laptop to one of the planning meetings.
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oct. 8, 2008 - 12 48
Thanks for this! A friend of mine just asked me about writing software and I don't use anything except MS Word.
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Tim, what was the really easy software we were all into two years ago? It was just a bunch of notepad type things you could tie together with lines. I found yWriter very awkward to use last year and I'd like to go back to whatever that other thing was.
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oct. 11, 2008 - 11 35
Hi, Meredith,
The other software is Papel.
At one point I started drawing up requirements for an improved Papel, but never had time to develop it. Maybe sometime in the future.
--Tim
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oct. 20, 2008 - 15 28
I still swear by Papel, having written 3 out of my 4 NaNoNovels on it.
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2007 [dud]: Bartholomew Chylle and the Golden Talisman
2006 51,432: Repetition for Ransom: A Quinn Miller Mystery
2006 51,981: Queen's Gambit Accepted
2005 54,447: O'Leary's Secret: Prelude to Predicam
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oct. 30, 2008 - 05 40
I just downloaded Papal and it looks amazing! I find I am best organized by post-it notes so this is absolutely perfect for me.
I had planned on using Notepad++ before I can across Papal. Notepad++ is a tabbed text editor for programmers, I like it for the tabs.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm