Thanks to my good friend Dom, I have just discovered Wavemaker a great, clean and powerful book writing application. It’s completely free and shows off the Progressive Web Application (PWA) framework really well.
In additon to the core writng view that lets you set up child and sibling sections that can be moved around your sequential tree of writing you get a load of other tools that are perfect for the GM wanting to think through and create a particular scenario or an over-arching campaign.
- Home – a place to write your words with a clean interface and logically move them about
- Datbase Cards – a place to note and group (#tagging) elements that you can then use elsewhere. Images and text
- Snowflake – build up your ideas by branching them out into sub cards and then folding them back in to a linear structure. Use the structure content in the Writer.
- Planning Board – as you create chapter and scene structure in your writing, you can attach notes in a planning board to this. The Planning Board view looks at the notes across the diffreent chapters, with cards for characters, locations scenes etc. It’s highly visual and provides lots of ideas in pone place in a structured way
- Grid Planner – a quick to use Kanban board to plan and progress your creativity.
- Mind Maps – spider out your thoughts and see what sort of connected web of plot and connections you make.
- Timeline Tool – create a timeline for your plot and then export it back inot Writer so that it can be seen in the Writer tree (aceroony)
- Challenege Mode – Push yourself. Set yourself a challenge to complete a set number of words in a set time. The work only saves when you complete. Nose to the screen. Everything else can F off.
- Export options
- Google Drive synchronisation
Multi platform, browser based (especially some) and fantastic for me as a Chromebook user. My work can be shared across devices to my Windows10 PC ‘work’station.
I’m going to be using this for my D&D 4e planning and some one shot planning for conventions.