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Writing a novel on your phone

Eight apps for iPhone and Android, from offline writing to sync with your computer.

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Free novel writing software

Seven free tools and the limit each one reaches first.

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Worldbuilding software for novelists

Seven tools read from the point of view of a novel to write, not a campaign to run.

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World Anvil and Campfire alternatives

Six tools for a novelist who wants to keep the world without a public wiki or per-module limits.

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Plumelin or World Anvil

A manuscript connected to its world beside a world wiki to publish.

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Plumelin or Campfire

A world connected to the scenes beside one module per system, from magic to religions.

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Writing a novel on Linux or Chromebook

Eight tools system by system, with the offline test in Firefox.

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Free Scrivener alternatives

Six free tools to get the binder, the world or Linux without a licence.

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Organise a novel in Plumelin

A direct route to structuring a manuscript into parts, chapters and scenes, then finding the right passage again.

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World bible for fiction writers

A story-led template for tracking rules, costs, places, histories and relationships through their effects on scenes.

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Novel outline: acts, chapters and scenes

A flexible worksheet for connecting the book's major turns to choices, consequences and scene-level change.

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Character profile for a novel

A focused worksheet, completed example and craft advice for characters whose choices keep producing story.

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Plumelin or Ellipsus

Documents, variants and collaboration beside a manuscript connected to its world.

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Plumelin or Ulysses

A minimalist native library beside a web studio for the book and its world.

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Plumelin or Novlr

Two online studios examined from the first chapter through to final exports.

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Plumelin or Dabble

Planning, goals, worldbuilding and book production compared step by step.

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Plumelin or Google Docs

What changes when a collaborative document becomes a structured book project.

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Plumelin or Scrivener

A connected studio or a project binder: two very different ways to organise a long novel.

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Which software should you choose to write a novel?

Seven tools compared across planning, writing, worldbuilding, collaboration and book production.

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