Fortelling - Writer Tools

Name: Fortelling - Writer Tools
Rating: 4.5 (685 reviews)
Author: AJP Digital Tools B.V.

Plot your novel organized

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Work on your creative story, organized. Novelist, are you ready to start writing your next fantastic novel? Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book. Writing Tools Our advanced plotting tools allow you to organize your story elements. Create characters, languages, species & items. Build out your fictional worlds with our advanced location tool. Create sublocations and document your unique universe. Keep an overview Link all your story elements together to create one giant board with related items. Describe their relations and keep the mess in your head organized. Write your novel Are you ready to put your pen on paper? You can even write your novel within Fortelling. Use our writing statistics and version history to stay in control. Collaborate Working together on a story has never been easier. You can keep the synergy going through our real-time collaboration feature and co-write something unique. Weekly Challenges Every Sunday, we launch a new writing prompt to challenge your imagination. Come up with an interesting short story for our prompt, share it with others, and receive feedback.

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4.5

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685 Ratings

Best story planning app
01/20/2021

Flagsarekewl2431
I have been looking for an app like this for a long time. Right away, you can see it has a very clear, easily navigated design and setup, not like some other story planning apps which glitch all the time and look messy. What I love the most is that it is extremely comprehensive. All the story elements that you could need have some place in here and you can create and describe them here at length, even different of magical creatures. For each character there are prompts (name, DOB, eye color, etc) to describe them but they also have some deeper ones (morals, secrets, childhood, etc) which really helped me further develop and round out my characters. Perhaps my favorite feauture, however, is the linking: for any element of the story (characters, items, settings, etc) you can link one to any another and title it (Friends, working partners, estranged siblings, etc). Then you have the option to write the POV/perspective from each linked element in regards to the link itself. That feature has been incredibly useful in pulling together my story. Finally, probably my second favorite feature is the way you can make multiple timelines (plotlines) and write, add, and arrange events in each one. Usually I would do that on paper but being able to move events around and add indefinitely is awesome.Overall, best story planning app I have ever encountered, and I would recommend to any storyteller who needs to outline a story.
Best story planning app
01/20/2021

Flagsarekewl2431

I have been looking for an app like this for a long time. Right away, you can see it has a very clear, easily navigated design and setup, not like some other story planning apps which glitch all the time and look messy. What I love the most is that it is extremely comprehensive. All the story elements that you could need have some place in here and you can create and describe them here at length, even different of magical creatures. For each character there are prompts (name, DOB, eye color, etc) to describe them but they also have some deeper ones (morals, secrets, childhood, etc) which really helped me further develop and round out my characters. Perhaps my favorite feauture, however, is the linking: for any element of the story (characters, items, settings, etc) you can link one to any another and title it (Friends, working partners, estranged siblings, etc). Then you have the option to write the POV/perspective from each linked element in regards to the link itself. That feature has been incredibly useful in pulling together my story. Finally, probably my second favorite feature is the way you can make multiple timelines (plotlines) and write, add, and arrange events in each one. Usually I would do that on paper but being able to move events around and add indefinitely is awesome.Overall, best story planning app I have ever encountered, and I would recommend to any storyteller who needs to outline a story.
Nearly perfect
06/04/2024

RavenclawT
I actually love this app—it’s very intuitive and I love all the features! Now, I don’t have to use fifteen different apps for planning and writing; everything I need is all in one. The only issue I’ve had is that I wish there was a way to move around the placement of chapters. For example, while I was writing I realized that in one of my stories, chapter three would work way better as chapter two so I wanted to switch their placement in the story. It would be nice to be able to move the chapter order without having to copy paste, but I understand that may not be feasible. The only other thing I’ve noticed is the order of my stories. It would be nice to have the one I was recently working on at the top instead of the one I made first. But these are really only very small nitpicks in the grand scheme of things—more of a personal preference than anything else—and this app is really fantastic. The things I love about it far outweigh any issues I’ve found (and the two mentioned are the only issues I’ve come across). Like the fact that I can have all my planning in the same place as my writing is just awesome. I love the characters and character groups function, really makes world building so much easier.
Nearly perfect
06/04/2024

RavenclawT

I actually love this app—it’s very intuitive and I love all the features! Now, I don’t have to use fifteen different apps for planning and writing; everything I need is all in one. The only issue I’ve had is that I wish there was a way to move around the placement of chapters. For example, while I was writing I realized that in one of my stories, chapter three would work way better as chapter two so I wanted to switch their placement in the story. It would be nice to be able to move the chapter order without having to copy paste, but I understand that may not be feasible. The only other thing I’ve noticed is the order of my stories. It would be nice to have the one I was recently working on at the top instead of the one I made first. But these are really only very small nitpicks in the grand scheme of things—more of a personal preference than anything else—and this app is really fantastic. The things I love about it far outweigh any issues I’ve found (and the two mentioned are the only issues I’ve come across). Like the fact that I can have all my planning in the same place as my writing is just awesome. I love the characters and character groups function, really makes world building so much easier.
Phenomenal for People Who Plan
08/11/2024

Heather-the-nerd
This app is wonderful! I always have so many ideas all at once and no way to organize them. I can’t write without plotting first, and plotting leads to other ideas and I don’t know where to write them or how to keep organized, etc. This app was such a blessing. It came up one day when I was Googling good workspaces for authors. The price point is more than fair and well within my budget, the app is compatible across platforms (like from phone app to computer in the web browser,) and it is so very user friendly. I have had so much fun planning my stories without stress and getting to add photos of my characters, build the world, add species and items, and pretty much everything else that can go into a book. Anything that it doesn’t have as a pre-written prompt (which is few and far between) you can add manually. You can have a whole series in one project and label everything clearly. I have ADHD, and so I have trouble organizing my thoughts usually. This app really helped with that. I highly recommend this app to any future authors or anyone that wants a fun place to build a world of their own.
Phenomenal for People Who Plan
08/11/2024

Heather-the-nerd

This app is wonderful! I always have so many ideas all at once and no way to organize them. I can’t write without plotting first, and plotting leads to other ideas and I don’t know where to write them or how to keep organized, etc. This app was such a blessing. It came up one day when I was Googling good workspaces for authors. The price point is more than fair and well within my budget, the app is compatible across platforms (like from phone app to computer in the web browser,) and it is so very user friendly. I have had so much fun planning my stories without stress and getting to add photos of my characters, build the world, add species and items, and pretty much everything else that can go into a book. Anything that it doesn’t have as a pre-written prompt (which is few and far between) you can add manually. You can have a whole series in one project and label everything clearly. I have ADHD, and so I have trouble organizing my thoughts usually. This app really helped with that. I highly recommend this app to any future authors or anyone that wants a fun place to build a world of their own.
Awesome!
05/30/2024

DJ_Ruff91
Dear Fortelling developers, This is one of the best writing / plotting apps I have seen. It has a great depth to the BTS of your stories and books. You can build languages, chapters, worlds, creatures, and etc. all through this one app! Now, while this is a well developed app, there is always room for improvement! I have found some bugs, and I also have some ideas for new features! One of the bugs I have noticed is whenever you go to the chapter area and create a chapter (with a description), you will likely never seen past the first ten words of the description again. You cannot restore or remember the words you wrote in the chapter section. This is also in a few other tabs, so I would appreciate you looking into that. I was wondering if you could add a feature where you could have articles, videos, tutorials, and/or tips for writing. They could range from building a plot (with a twist) to fixing grammatical issues. Just an idea, and I do believe your app is fine just as is, but this would be very convenient for new writers instead of swapping apps!
Awesome!
05/30/2024

DJ_Ruff91

Dear Fortelling developers, This is one of the best writing / plotting apps I have seen. It has a great depth to the BTS of your stories and books. You can build languages, chapters, worlds, creatures, and etc. all through this one app! Now, while this is a well developed app, there is always room for improvement! I have found some bugs, and I also have some ideas for new features! One of the bugs I have noticed is whenever you go to the chapter area and create a chapter (with a description), you will likely never seen past the first ten words of the description again. You cannot restore or remember the words you wrote in the chapter section. This is also in a few other tabs, so I would appreciate you looking into that. I was wondering if you could add a feature where you could have articles, videos, tutorials, and/or tips for writing. They could range from building a plot (with a twist) to fixing grammatical issues. Just an idea, and I do believe your app is fine just as is, but this would be very convenient for new writers instead of swapping apps!

Update 4.2.0: - New: Duplicate story elements inside a project - New: Add images to notes in the files tool - New: Upload multiple images at once - New: Show a grid or a listview of files - New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool - New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once - New: Show file extension in info sheet - New: Preview .pdf files in the app - New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu) - Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements - Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder - Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made - Improved: Increased text scale range - Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different - Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite - Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project - Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once - Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page - Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet - Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool - Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool - Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book - Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode. - Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info - Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)

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