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[LIVING DOCUMENT] Writing Tools to Help Those who are Stuck

[WIP] I'll Have to Do Similar.... - Lemmy Today

Because my fantastic list of tools I found on Free Media, Heck Yeah got deleted (because that was on my feddit.online account, which was deleted for no reason I was given), I’ll have to do this again. If you have any more recommendations, then I’d be happy to add them here. A list of writing tools for those who are unaware, or want to try something out: From two lists: the RPG Worldbuilding tools [https://fmhy.xyz/gaming-tools#rpg-worldbuilding] and the writing tools [https://fmhy.xyz/text-tools#writing-tools], these were discovered by myself and Neigsendoig (my producer, who goes by Sendo). New tools were likely added recently since we took a look at this. First, the writing tools: Distraction-free writing: - Writer (recommended) - FocusWriter - Writemonkey - blank.page - telagra.ph [http://telagra.ph] - Aurelius - ZenPen - write.as [http://write.as] - Owri - WriteSpace - WriteNext Writing Oragnizing/Planning: - Manuskript Novel Editing: - novelWriter (recommended, FOSS) - Bibisco Journaling: - Linked (recommended) - journaltxt - Gerki - Microsoft Journal (why?) - Diarium - jrnl.sh [http://jrnl.sh] AI tools for those who want that (i.e. me) - TextFX (Recommended, FOSS) - Rytr (proprietary, not recommended, even for AI users) To generate important-looking letters (likely AI) - Heavyweight VN Editors - Tuesday JS (FOSS) - RenPy (FOSS) Novel Plotting/Workspaces - Fortelling - Novelist (currently in beta) Collaborative Writing/Feedback - Infinite Story - Strand - Agora - WriteAlong Worldbuilding/Story Writing - Gateway Forge - Includes modules - Chronicler (FOSS) Prompts - LanguageIsAVirus - MDWA Non-linear Story Creation - Twinery User Story Map Generation - TextUSM Interactive Essays - Idyll Script/Screen Writing - STARC (Story Architect) (My recommendation, FOSS) - WriteSolo (Proprietary) - Celtx (Proprietary) - Obsidian with Longform (My recommendation, Local-First) - Trelby (My recommendation, FOSS) Webcomics - Rarebit Spoken Language Construction Tools - PolyGlot - VulgarLang Annotation Tools - How to annotate literally anything - Label Buddy - rNote Thesis Writing/Note Taking - MonsterWriter

Mugita Sokio Jun 15

I Found a Local-First Writing Tool

https://lemmy.today/post/54856017

I Found a Local-First Writing Tool - Lemmy Today

I’m testing out this tool called Writality. Compared to Obsidian, you don’t need specific plugins for something like this, and instead, you just need this thing. By the way, their pricing page is a joke, basically showing that it’s free to use. The developer recommends storing your vault on someone else’s computer (even though that’s optional). By the way, this uses no AI, and the individual behind it is female, 25. That would be Bara, who’s the one behind this entire project. On a side note: Everything from my feddit.online account had been completely wiped, because the admins decided to delete my account. I was given no reasoning for it whatsoever, and I don’t know what part of the ToS I violated. I need proof of ToS violations, and this was shady at best.

Mugita Sokio Jan 19

I'm Just About to Release my Audiobook

https://lemmy.today/post/45922197

I'm Just About to Release my Audiobook - Lemmy Today

Exactly as the title says. However, I’m currently checking to ensure I can get it right, because I have a feeling I messed up on an audio file. I’m checking Wavlake, where I’ll be hosting the audiobook for those who are interested in checking it out. Also, apparently, Thriv is acting like a princess right now, and it’s been down for a while. I need to contact its admin to see what’s going on. I hope I can release my audiobook version of my FediWriMo project soon.

Mugita Sokio Jan 2

Maybe a Rule of Thumb is In Order for JournoJan?

https://lemmy.today/post/44774674

Maybe a Rule of Thumb is In Order for JournoJan? - Lemmy Today

I’ve attempted to look this up, and have a rough estimation of how many pages can be recommended. For a standard journal size that’s college ruled, it depends on what one does for their journals. For single-spaced sorts of deals, it’s around 500-600 words. As for a regular-style double-spaced deal, it’s 250-300 words, from what I found. It can be around 100-500 words as an average, so about 750-900 words should be a good target. Now, this can be a guideline, which is quite malleable when you think about it for a second. I just wrote over 1k today as a result of this, considering that I’m just the type of guy who will sit down and just do stuff. Recap - Single-spaced: 500-600 words - Double-spaced: 250-300 words - Target: 750-900 words all things considered, but can be adjusted if necessary

Mugita Sokio Dec 31

Currently Working On an Audiobook Version of My FediWriMo Project

https://lemmy.today/post/44649778

Mugita Sokio Dec 20, 2025

How About an Obsidian Guide for Authors?

https://lemmy.today/post/44020300

How About an Obsidian Guide for Authors? - Lemmy Today

For those who want to use Obsidian in a local-first writing environment, specifically for writing fiction, here’s some steps you can take to do just that: 1. Download Obsidian [https://obsidian.md/] 2. Open Obsidian for the first time 3. Select “Create” on the first menu that pops up (this is done during first-time setup) 4. Name your vault under “Vault name” - I have it set as “Novel Work” 5. Pick a location where you’ll place this Obsidian vault - I have a dedicated place for Obsidian vaults, of which I share with Neigsendoig (my producer) 6. Click “Create” 7. Do everything to make it local-first - Turn off the “Sync” plugin, as that’s unnecessary 8. Install a theme that allows for pure left-to-right reading (if a language uses that system, like English) - Neigsendoig and I like to use the Zen theme, which is really nice for our needs 9. Enable the Community plugins, and install the following: - Dictionary - File Info Panel - Harper (spell checker that’s like LanguageTool, but local-only) - Highlightr - Longform (this is how you can write novels, plus you have word count goals if ever you wanted to utilize them) - Quiet Outline - Style Settings (This is required for changing up the Zen theme) 10. Create the following folder-bases structure (this is crucial for finding things) - Exercises - This is where I put my FediWriMo project, Foxing Society - Fanfics - If you write fanfiction, I’d recommend placing it in a separate folder so you can easily access it away from your main stuff - Ghost Writing - This is desired if you have a ghost writing career, and you want to keep things different - That depends on what type of work, so make folders according to that - Ideas - This is where you store your ideas - On Hold - This is for projects where you just can’t work on them for the time being - Original Projects - This is for stuff you work on outside of a WriMo deal, the one where you don’t need to write something with 50k words in 30 days - z_Dictionary - This is where you store a local dictionary, though I don’t have that, as I use Wordbook [https://github.com/mufeedali/Wordbook] both as a dictionary and thesaurus Now, to make a Longform project: 1. Choose the folder you want to do something in 2. Right click from inside the folder 3. Select “Create Longform Project” 4. Choose either a Multi-scene project (ordered notes combined together in the manuscript, with an index and YAML frontmatter) - An enclosing folder will be created for the project and scenes thereof, though it can be renamed, both folder and/or index file - Else, you can choose a Single-scene projct, which entails a short story or essay, including its YAML frontmatter used by Longform to track the project locally 5. Name the project 6. Select “Create” once it’s named 7. Once inside the project, you should have the icon with an open book selected. This is your Longform sidebar 8. Write the title of a scene - I used N - “Chapter title”, where N is the number of a chapter, and “Chapter title” is the title of the chapter - Example from Foxing Society: 1 - Turning the Tides on Corruption 9. You can just write, like that, once this is done In the settings, under Settings > Community Plugins > Longform > Word Counts & Sessions, you can turn on “Show word counts in status bar”, which shows the note’s project, “Start new writing sessions each day”, which allows you to automatically start a new writing session, “Notify on goal reached”, which is self-explanatory, and “Count deletions against goal”, wherein deleting words counts as negative words written. Your “Session word count goal” option is where you input the amount of words you want to write in a given session. It can be 1,667 per day, or more (for a FediWriMo exercise). If you have any questions, feel free to DM me privately, or respond here, and I can see what I can do to answer in a timely manner (If I see it, that is).

Mugita Sokio Dec 13, 2025

How About an Except From "Foxing Society"?

https://lemmy.today/post/43584118

How About an Except From "Foxing Society"? - Lemmy Today

Exactly as described. I decided upon this particular passage from Chapter 7: “As Katsumi and his horse arrived, he got off the horse, and hitched it to a specialized wagon. This wagon had a house hitch made by the fox folk, which was designed for transporting houses. These were all tiny houses, for which was the homesteading fox’s house type of choice. Once everything was hitched together, and Katsumi placed everything he needed to keep his wealth in the wagon, he climbed onto his horse again and rode off. He then rode to meet up with Katso-kun and Misagi at the place of what was now their old homestead. Once everyone had everything they needed together, the three of them embarked on a journey only Methuselah could have even called for, knowing the prophecy that a leigon would be circling around them. Once that legion circled around, this was the Abomination of Ruin, of which they knew was coming. They prepared for this the night prior, so being able to do something like this on short notice was a small feat to these fox folk, but numerous humans would not understand as to why. During the day, the three of them kept riding on their horses, single-file, with Katsumi at the front. Katso-kun and Misagi knew by now that Katsumi was a Silent Prophet, and that he seemingly knew the way. They did not realize, however, that Katsumi had to leave it to the Creator, and likely Methuselah, to lead the way. Katsumi would only go where he was called, and so would Misagi and Katso-kun. Within a short time frame, the three of them found a spot to stop for the night as the sun had set. A day always ended at sunset for the fox folk who followed a lunisolar calendar, of which Katsumi would always follow. Misagi and Katso-kun ended up following Katsumi’s lead, as this was something they had missed when reading the set-apart texts for the fox folk. This was hard to do unless one knew who to go to for a teacher. Katsumi, to Katso-kun and Misagi, was that teacher they probably were incognizant that he was the teacher they so desperately needed all those years. Katsumi, on the other hand, did not understand that yet, but he was starting to get the gist of it. As the three of them rested for the night, Katsumi looked up at the moon to see what it was doing. Thankfully, it was waning, but not enough for it to be a waning half moon yet, which would be the twenty-second of the month using this calendar. Katsumi looked at Misagi and Katso-kun, and told them, “The moon is in a waning phase, though it is not at a half moon yet. We are not too close to the twenty-second day of the month on our holy calendar yet, but we are getting there.” Katsumi checked his calendar, which he had handy, to ensure he had it correct. After taking a look, it was not too close to the twenty-second, but not too far either.”

Mugita Sokio Dec 3, 2025

I Found Digital Writing Tools

https://lemmy.today/post/42904730

I Found Digital Writing Tools - Lemmy Today

Just as the title says. It’s here [https://fmhy.xyz/text-tools#writing-tools] (I used the SFW instance for it, just in case). I’ll list the tools here. Recommendations are in bold from the creators of this thing. Italics are my recommendations if any are missing. Distraction-Free Writing - Writer (https://www.gibney.org/writer [https://www.gibney.org/writer]) - FocusWriter (https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ [https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/]) - Writemonkey (https://writemonkey.com/ [https://writemonkey.com/]) - blank.page (https://blank.page/ [https://blank.page/]) - Telegraph (https://telegra.ph/ [https://telegra.ph/]) - Aurelius (https://aurelius.ink/ [https://aurelius.ink/]) - ZenPen (https://zenpen.io/ [https://zenpen.io/]) - Write.as [http://Write.as] (https://write.as/ [https://write.as/]) - Owri (https://owri.netlify.app/ [https://owri.netlify.app/]) - WriteSpace (https://www.writespace.app/ [https://www.writespace.app/]) - WriteNext (https://www.writenext.io/ [https://www.writenext.io/]) Writing Organizer/Planner - Manuskript (https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/ [https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/]) Novel Editors - novelWriter (https://novelwriter.io/ [https://novelwriter.io/]) - Bibisco (https://bibisco.com/ [https://bibisco.com/]) Journal Apps - Linked (https://uselinked.com/ [https://uselinked.com/]) - journaltxt (https://journaltxt.github.io/ [https://journaltxt.github.io/]) - Gekri (https://gekri.com/ [https://gekri.com/]) - Microsoft Journal (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/journal/ [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/journal/]) - Diarium (https://diariumapp.com/ [https://diariumapp.com/]) - jrnl.sh [http://jrnl.sh] (https://jrnl.sh/ [https://jrnl.sh/]) Story Writing Tips/Guides - TV Tropes Guide (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SoYouWantTo/SeeTheIndex [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SoYouWantTo/SeeTheIndex]) VN Editors (If one’s into creating VNs) - Tuesday JS (https://kirill-live.itch.io/tuesday-js [https://kirill-live.itch.io/tuesday-js]) - RenPy (https://www.renpy.org/ [https://www.renpy.org/]) Novel Plotting / Editing Workspaces - Fortelling (https://www.fortelling.app/ [https://www.fortelling.app/]) - Novelist (https://beta.novelist.app/ [https://beta.novelist.app/]) Collaborative Writing / Feedback Note: Unattributed might want to consider a collab NaNo if that exists - Infinite Story (https://infinite-story.com/ [https://infinite-story.com/]) - Strand (https://strand.jinay.dev/ [https://strand.jinay.dev/]) - Agora (https://www.agorawriter.com/ [https://www.agorawriter.com/]) - WriteAlong (https://www.writealong.io/ [https://www.writealong.io/]) Worldbuilding / Story Writing - Gateway Forge (https://gatewayforge.com/ [https://gatewayforge.com/]) - Modules therof (https://gatewayforge.com/resources [https://gatewayforge.com/resources]) - Chronicler (https://chronicler.pro/ [https://chronicler.pro/]) Writing Prompts - LanguagelsAVirus (https://www.languageisavirus.com/ [https://www.languageisavirus.com/]) - MDWA (https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app [https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app]) Interactive Non-Linear Story Creation - Twinery (https://twinery.org/ [https://twinery.org/]) User Story Map Generation - TextUSM (https://textusm.com/ [https://textusm.com/]) Interactive Essay Creation - Idyll (https://idyll-lang.org/editor [https://idyll-lang.org/editor]) Script/Screen Writing Tools - Story Architect (STARC) (https://starc.app/ [https://starc.app/]) WARNING: Proprietary apps - WriteSolo (https://www.writersolo.com/ [https://www.writersolo.com/]) - Celtx (I used this one on iOS) (https://www.celtx.com/ [https://www.celtx.com/]) Webcomics Templating - Rarebit (https://rarebit.neocities.org/ [https://rarebit.neocities.org/]) Spoken Language Construction Tools - PolyGlot (https://draquet.github.io/PolyGlot/ [https://draquet.github.io/PolyGlot/]) - VulgarLang (https://www.vulgarlang.com/ [https://www.vulgarlang.com/]) Annotations - How to annotate literally anything (https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html [https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html]) - Label Buddy (https://jeromedockes.github.io/labelbuddy/labelbuddy/current/ [https://jeromedockes.github.io/labelbuddy/labelbuddy/current/]) - rNote (https://rnote.flxzt.net/ [https://rnote.flxzt.net/]) Thesis Writing / Note-Taking - MosnterWriter (https://www.monsterwriter.com/ [https://www.monsterwriter.com/]) All of the above, maybe… - Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/ [https://obsidian.md/]) Hope this helps.

Mugita Sokio Dec 1, 2025

"Foxing Society" Finished at 50,174 Words (Nov. 30, 2025, 17:45 Hours, PST)

https://lemmy.today/post/42772200

"Foxing Society" Finished at 50,174 Words (Nov. 30, 2025, 17:45 Hours, PST) - Lemmy Today

The milestone had been marked. 50,174 is the official word count for my novel, and all I did was write what turned out to be an epilogue, since I wanted a plot twist by the end of the final chapter (Chapter 13 for me here).

Mugita Sokio Nov 30, 2025

Do Y'all Tend to Pants or Plot?

https://lemmy.today/post/42717060

Do Y'all Tend to Pants or Plot? - Lemmy Today

I wanted to get some experiences from both sides, though I’ll give my experience as a pantser. I’ve always been a spontaneous kinda guy, though my producer tends to be very meticulous in his planning (he uses numerology to do plan releases of his major works). Despite our spontaneity, I tend to be more of a guy who just pulls a lot of shenanigans off in the first place. For me, personally speaking, it makes sesne for me to have something in my head and go off of that. Pantsing tends to help me with a ton, and I mean a ton of plot twists that could help, and tiny plot armor if and/or when needed. For example, towards the end of my work, my protagonist is finally able to do what he was meant to do (which I won’t spoil here). I will say, however, that he was meant to do this, but he was in an area he couldn’t due to how persecuted he was to begin with. I can say similar with how Neigsendoig (my producer) writes, considering the fact that we tend to just have ideas that we want to make into reality (watch The Survival Podcast Ep. 3688 if you want to know where I got that from). Regardless, that’s my quick notes on my pantsing experience. What do y’all tend to do when writing? Pants or Plot? No competition is intended, just me wanting to know both sides of it out of curiosity.