Fiction.Tools – A Toolbox for Fiction Authors

I've always loved the submissions for new writing tools here on HN, so I've kept a growing list of my favorites for a long time. When I needed to learn React, I built Fiction.Tools to make all those tools searchable and filterable for everyone else.

I've also made the site open source (at https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/) so anyone can add their own favorites to the list. The data is all available in structured JSON blobs (https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/tree/main/src/da...) for anyone that wants to use it other ways, too. :)

Obviously there's no one-size-fits-all "writing process", but I did my best to organize them according to a common flow: tools to help you build a fictional world, to help you write within it, to help you revise what you've written, and finally to help you publish or share your work with others.

There are a lot of struggling authors out there (myself included!) that I think could benefit from a tool or two to help ease them through the tougher (or just less interesting) stages of this process, so I hope organizing the tools this way makes it easier for someone in need to find the right tool at the right time.

Also, each tool is tagged with hoverable attributes that explain what platforms they run on, how much they cost, whether they have ads, subscriptions, whether there are discounts for educators, etc. If you click the "Highlight tools" button in the bottom-right, you can toggle between simplying highlighting tools in the larger list or filtering every tool out except those that match the attribute(s) you're looking for.

As I said above, the site is fully open source and I would very much appreciate any tool suggestions, feedback, or PRs you have for other tools that might be helpful to writers; using new tools in my writing has kind of become a passion of my own, so even if you don't think something would fit in the list I'd still love to try it out myself. :)