StorYBook, writing novels
Free Software can also help us writing novels. StorYBook is a tool created in order to make easier the hard task that writing novels is: it is complicated to safe in our memory every thing that happen in the story, all the elements, etc.
StoryBook helps us to make it easy. When we open the program, we can choose among 3 views:
- The Chronological View shows the scenes sorted by date.
- The Manage Chapters and Scenes view shows all chapters and their assigned scenes. Scenes can be moved and renumbered by Drag-and-Drop.
- The Book View shows all chapters and their assigned scenes sorted by chapter and scene numbers, as you would read it in the final book.
Also, we can organize strands and strand links, characters, locations, chapters, parts, information related with the scenes, etc. The program allows us to adjust the view we need among those we commented before, and saves automatically (instant save) our story (we don’t have to do anything).
The 2.1.2 version has been published some days ago. One of the most interesting new features is the possibility to export to PDF. StorYBook works under GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac (programmed on java) and is GPL.
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