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Story plotting app idea I'm working on (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/writing

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Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.

I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.

There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.

It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).

So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?

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[–] greedytacothief 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a cool idea, I could see myself using something like it. But I do most of my writing in obsidian or vim nowadays. I think making this into a plugin for a popular writing program will get it used more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You write prose in Vim? What kinds of plugins do you use for that?

[–] greedytacothief 2 points 2 months ago

Have not started writing creatively in vim yet, but I've been eyeing neorg. Org mode for vim