Apps and Programs

• 🆓Fantasia Archive: While this free program is designed for DND, it can be helpful for brainstorming worlds and characters, as well as how they all connect together.
• Fantasy Calendar
• Bubisco
• Campfire
• World Anvil
• Inkarnate
• Legend Keeper
• One Stop for Writers
• Legend Keeper
• Kanka
• World Scribe

World Maps:

How-To’s:

• A Fantasy World Map Guide: Tools and Best Practices

Apps/Programs:

• Nortantis
• RPG Map Editor: retro RPG style, rooms and dungeons
• Wonderdraft
• Cartography Assets:
• 2min Tabletop
• Venatus Maps
• Dungeondraft:
• Campaign Cartographer:
• DGN FOG (Dungeons, Rooms, Cities)
• Inkarnate:
• Worldspinner:
• World Anvil:

Generated Maps:

• 🆓Villages: Watabou:
• 🆓Towns: Eigengrau
• 🆓Neighbourhoods: Watabou:
• 🆓Citys: Watabou:
• 🆓Modern Cities: Probabletrain:
• 🆓World: Mewo2:
• 🆓World: Donjon:
• 🆓World: Azgaar:

World-Building Questions:

• 🆓Reedsy
• 🆓Ellen Brock Editing
• 🆓SFWA

Misc Tools:

• 🆓Dan Koboldt: a blog about getting the science right in Fantasy and Sci-Fi
• 🆓Food Timeline: shows what what people ate in history
• 🆓Tennessine Flag Maker: a free flag maker
• 🆓📺“5 Tips for creating believable bureaucracies in fantasy worlds! “
• 🆓COAMaker: Coat-of-Arms maker

I am a bit of a cataloger when it comes to writing resources, so here are some of them. I haven't tried all of these myself, so please let me know if I get anything wrong. If people find this helpful, I have world building and editing related ones I can share too.

• 🆓yWriter: It is not the most sleek looking program, but it works.
• 🆓Google Docs
• 🆓Slugline
• 🆓Highland
• 🆓 Wavemaker
• 🆓 Joplin: The cloud hosting does cost money. Open source alternative to Evernote.
• 🆓 Only Office: This one is good for people who want a private cloud-hosted alternative to Google Docs. It is open-source.
• 🆓 Obsidian: I have started using this for world building, but many authors use it for writing. Within it, you can create your own wiki, and view connections in a cool graph. It has many plug-ins you can add.
• 🆓Anytype: The program is free and private, but for the cloud, you have 1GB of storage, then you’ll need a plan for more.
• 🆓 Manuskript: I haven’t tried this one, but it looks similar to yWriter, but with some different features
• 🆓 Bibisco: A writing and note organizer program with timelines, mind-maps, and more.
• 🆓 Reedsy Book Editor: It is online(not self-hosted/a program download)
• 🆓 SmartEdit: a MSWord alternative for writers that is supposed to have several helpful editing features.
• 🆓 Quoll Writer: Open-source, and has several unique features, such as “warm up session.”
• 🆓 Trillium: Self-hosted and open-source.
• Plot Factory
• 4thewords: It turns writing into a game, where you send your game character on a monster-fighting quest by writing.
• NovelPad:
• Plottr:
• Living Writer:
• Squibler:
• Notion: Free limited version
• Scrivener:
• Atticus:

Programs/Apps

• 🆓 Hemmingway App
• 🆓 Consistency Checker
• 🆓 Draft
• 🆓 After The Deadline: No longer maintained, but can be self hosted
• Grammarly: Free limited version
• WritingProAid: Free limited version
• AutoCrit: Free limited version
• Smart Edit
• Perfect It
• Master Writer
• Word Rake

Editors and Beta-Readers:

• 🆓The Ultimate Guide to Working with Beta Readers
• 🆓Working with a Freelance Book Editor
• 🆓How to Find an Editor as a Self-published Author

Misc:

• 🆓Gestures
• 🆓Word Help
• 🆓Text-to-Speech
• 🆓Diversity Style Guide “The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity.”
• 🆓RhymeZone Helps you find rhymes, synonyms, adjectives, descriptive words, and more
• 🆓Power Thesaurus

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