Writing (general)

Write. Don't stop. If you stop typing for more than five minutes, all progress will be lost.

Write or Die is an application for Windows, Mac and Linux which aims to eliminate writer's block by providing consequences for procrastination and rewards for accomplishment.

The world is a hive of distractions, multi-tasking, and cultural ADD. Many have sat down to write, only to find hours have vanished with nothing to show but a trail of browser tabs and Wiki pages. Flowstate challenges the writer to turn on, tune in, and block out.

Where writers come together to collaborate and compete in each other's stories.

Ideal for long writing projects with flexibility in structure, Scrivener integrates easy project outlines and allows seamless restructuring with drag and drop.

Based on the Firefox engine, supports standards, visual storyboarding, production scheduling, publication & international languages MUI support. Free tutorials, videos & wiki are available from the site. There is a very helpful community too.

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

For Mac users to write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing. Requires Mac OS X 10.

Paragraphs is an app just for writers. It was built for one thing and one thing only: writing. It gives you everything you need to create brilliant prose and does away with the rest.

Focus on your words not the interface. Quoll Writer is a writing application that helps you focus on your words. Clean and uncluttered. Feature rich. Features are where you would expect them to be.

Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable.

Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.

Flexible writing and note-taking tool with markdown, plain text storage, cross-note links, hashtags, powerful search, Focus Mode, iCloud sync, and export options.

FreeWriter is a fully featured writing software suite to assist in writing novels and reports.

Storyline Creator is an elegant tool to write stories ranging from short stories to novels. It makes it a breeze to draft ideas and to organize your scenes, characters and researched material - so you can focus on the creativity instead of the paper war.

The Future of Writing. Collaboration, and World Building.

Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.

Craft your story. Write your novel. Dabble is software for writing novels for the desktop (Mac and Windows) and browser, syncing between computers.

A simple to use online writing environment for the high-production, creative writer. Write the way you want to write, using any approach you like in a simple, distraction-free environment. It's novel writing in the cloud.

Cloud-based word processor specialized for writers, colloboration included.

Tablo is a community-based platform for avid readers and writers. It helps users share and discover new and interesting stories.

Highlights potential pitfalls in your writing to encourage good habits.

TheRightMargin is a smart writing tool.

TheRightMargin uses a goal-driven approach to help users finish what they write with smart suggestions, project goal breakdown, a visually delightful timeline and a beautiful writing space.

Write and share anywhere, distraction free, on a customizable look. Plain text, unlimited space, easy to manage, free to use, customize the background, font and color. Track the number of characters written, words, lines, reading time, and more.

Auteureist is a "novel" writing application for the Apple iPhone. Can export to some desktop software, like Scrivener . The website does a great job at documenting every feature, and there are a lot.

Outline 4D is an outlining and writing program that lets you brainstorm, create, structure and organize your ideas. In addition to a traditional vertical single-pane outline format, Outline 4D has a horizontal timeline format that is an alternative to index cards, blocks, and...

Online word processor offering real-time collaboration, document conversion, robust formatting, revision history, redownloading, and language translation.

Offers things like writing tips, roleplaying, generators, prompts to inspire writers and artists.

Scabard is a rules neutral RPG campaign manager and planner. We have campaigns for D&D (various versions), Pathfinder, Traveller, Savage Worlds, Warhammer, and a host of others.

Realm Works is a database software and worldbuilding tool for roleplaying games.

YARPS is a smart web application for creating and managing vivid worlds, planning and documenting your stories, enhancing your role-playing with portraits, interactive maps and music and for trading RPG content.

StoriesOnBoard helps product managers, product owners, and business analysts understand customer needs, automate feedback collection, develop feature ideas, prioritize and validate what to develop next with a public roadmap, and rally all stakeholders around the story map.

Productivity-boosting tool that helps co-located teams create, discuss, collaborate, manage and release powerful products.

CardBoard is a simple tool to collaboratively discover your product, from user experiences to MVPs

FeatureMap is a digital white board for flexible and realtime collaborative storymapping. FeatureMap - https://www.featuremap.co - embeds rich content and facilitates the transformation of storymapping / roadmapping to project management.

Desktop software for novel creation providing chapter and scene organization, export to PDF, DOCX, distraction-free writing, timeline, goals, and character tools.

Persona is a character creation and organization app for writers. What makes the app unique is its sorting system: the user can match each character with an archetype in order to compare multiple characters at once to see how they might interact.

Characters and stories planner.

A cross-platform Markdown editor providing real-time preview, Focus & Typewriter modes, and support for multiple export formats.

Simple but configurable and themeable, distraction-free text editor for writers. Open-source and available across desktop platforms.

Nuclino is a unified workspace where teams can bring all their knowledge, docs, and projects together in one place. It’s a modern, simple, and blazingly fast way to collaborate, without the chaos of files and folders, context switching, or silos.

The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.

Open-source software for creating websites and blogs with an emphasis on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security.

Persona is an innovative character development tool for fiction writers. Persona aids you in crafting archetypal themed characters and plots by using time-honored psychological principles to describe the motivations and interactions between different characterizations of people.

oStorybook is a free, open source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing texts.

A new screenwriting experience brought to you by Amazon Studios. Write your screenplay and focus on the story with features like auto-formatting, offline writing, and import/export in your favorite file formats. Keep your scripts safe with unlimited, secure storage in the cloud.