Storyright – Story Planner

Yzabel / November 7, 2005

It’s only today that I’ve discovered this site, which is still in it beta version, but looks pretty interesting all the same: Storyright. From what I’ve seen of it, it’s a story planner that lets you write about your story, its themes, its plots and subplots, as well as fill out “character sheets” (the latter including various data fields: physical description, role in the story, education, likes&dislikes, etc). I’ve signed up for an account, although I haven’t toyed with all the functions yet, but all in all, this seems like a nice and free alternative to the expensive software out there such as Power Writer (which is good in my opinion, but I really don’t have 190$ to shell out for a planning software right now). Story outlines can also be exported as Word documents, so that your work isn’t totally dependent on the state of the server on which the site is hosted.So far, what bothers me with it is that it only seems to work as intended under IE, and that, well, you need to have an Internet connection to use it. For the rest, I haven’t tested it enough to tell. It looks like it refreshes fast, at the least.outline, planning, story, storyright, writing

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  • Lee Pletzers

    I agree, Power Writer is expensive, but now I use it, I have no idea how I finished novels before. I told my wife it was an investment.

  • Yzabel

    I’ve used the trial version, and I must say I liked it. Granted, if I could afford it, I probably would. I like the website, though. It’s organized in quite similar ways, so for me, it can be a good replacement in the meantime…(I’ll agree that it helps. I’m so not talented at organizing my thoughts, that such tools indeed are tons of use for a person like me!)

  • Karen Lee Field

    I used StoryRight for a few days, but I found bugs that started to annoy me (like I couldn’t create a character all the time and it took me ages to type all the information in and I lost it all).I went back to my plain and simple wiki. It doesn’t ask the questions but I don’t need that anyway. 🙂

  • Thomas G. Larsen

    Karen, could you explain how you use wiki?I’m not I writer myself – I just dropped by this site, but a great way to organize thoughts, well, just about everything is to use mindmapping software.Try Freemind – it’s great and free! http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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