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Are you writing a book ? (self.books)

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

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Recently I decided to start writing a science fiction novel. I reserved a desk in my room for this purpose, I also picked up an old Thinkpad X200 on which I installed Lubuntu 24.04 and plugged in a gaming keyboard for night writing. I chose to install a minimum of applications in order to stay focused.

My main writing App for the moment is Joplin

And you?

Are you writing a book or have you already written one?

What type of tool do you use to write?

Do you have some advice to share?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Currently on the worldbuilding/outlining phase.

I’m using a customized self-hosted Semantic MediaWiki installation, and can’t imagine doing it any other way—it’s like Wikipedia with the added ability to aggregate and live-update information from related pages. For instance, I can create a story event page with the place, date, and list of characters involved—and just from that, each character’s page has a map of all the places they’ve been, a timeline of all the events they’ve been present at, and a list of all the characters they’ve met; and it all gets updated whenever I add or edit an event.

Plus it’s on a web server, so I can access it from any device with an internet connection.

[–] xiao 0 points 2 months ago

self-hosted Semantic MediaWiki installation

Sounds like interesting, I need to look into it !