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Agora is a writing community where writers draft, share, and discuss their craft. It lets users connect with other writers, browse a forum, track writing progress, and receive anonymous feedback. It is described as suitable for novelists, students, copywriters, poets, and anyone creative.
Rarebit is a free, open-source webcomic template built in HTML and vanilla JavaScript. It uses a single HTML page for all comic pages and offers toggleable navigation, per-page titles and author's notes, and an automatically updating archive. It supports splitting one comic page into multiple image files. The template requires no extensions and little coding experience.
Manuskript is an open-source writing tool for writers. It offers an outliner for organizing thoughts hierarchically, a distraction-free mode with word-count or time goals, and a novel assistant that uses the snowflake method. It includes tools for characters, plots and world-building. The page states the software is still in development and in need of extensive testing.
Languageisavirus.com is a writing site intended to cure writer's block and inspire creativity. It offers interactive writing games, story writing activities, poem generators, writing prompts and creative writing exercises, including a haiku generator, visual poetry, a cut up generator and a Shakespearean sonnet generator.
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine for telling interactive stories with words, images and sounds on computers and mobile devices. It covers visual novels and life simulation games, using an easy to learn script language and Python scripting. It is open source and free for commercial use, with supported platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Simple stories can be made without writing code, and stories can be extended with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS and JavaScript. Twine publishes directly to HTML, and creations are free to use, including for commercial purposes. It is available as a desktop app or in a browser.
