"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story".
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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Creating a whole new story is never easy. For this reason, you will need several resources to organize your ideas. Also, it will be very necessary to find more examples and models on the Internet, just to guide yourself throughout the process of brainstorming and writing. And guess what... WE HAVE THEM ALL IN HERE! Scroll down and you will find very nice webpages that may be a super convinient help for you and your storytelling.
Extremely convenient in terms of usability and pretty decent learning curve, with very good potential to allow students to make their ideas more easily shareable. This website has its own workshop mounted on its in-browser version so that when people decide to use it they don’t have to install or subscribe anywhere, since the memberships are not mandatory in order to take advantage of the actual application to build mind maps. Speaking of the app, it can produce mind maps that can be converted easily into PDF format, or be shared via Google Drive. The website also enables keyboard short-cuts so that using the interface gets easier with time, rather than harder. Perfect for Brainstorming in a tidy fashion.
Not entirely focused on mind maps, but also many other tools that make learning and processes quite more practical and simpler. It’s a beginner-friendly interface that allows people to discover the best way to both learn and track learning rhythm. There are quizzes, graphs, flash cards, slides and mind maps all at the disposal of any student or teacher who seeks tools that simplify and make the learning curve more enjoyable. Free sign up is available. Another impressive part of this application is the fact that it’s available in a Mobile Version.
Much more focused in the graphic and eye-pleasing aspect of mind-mapping and scheming, this website has many more features than its two predecessors and through a fast registration process allows for students and teachers to modify the aspect and structure of their ideas so that colors and shapes speak miles about the ideas themselves. Tools such as speech bubbles, Facebook covers, photo editing and more are supplementary assets of the discipline of shaping your learning process, and your academic grinding.
This amazing and yet simple application is perfect for people who are learning how to develop a new story, be it short or long. By simply copying and pasting whatever piece of text has been written into the app, it can highlight phrases using different colors and associating each phrase to a different kind of error, be it a misuse of the passive voice or an overdependence on adjectives and metaphors. This app truly does it all by keeping it simple, keeping it colorful.
http://www.tapnik.com/brainstormer/
An innovative application that allows students to find authentic inspiration from nothing but an interactive mini-game, rotating “contest-roulette” wheels with random concepts and ideas that merge together to make wonderful plot proposals. A wonderful alternative to counter the infamous writer’s block of which anybody will suffer time and time again, this application has also got variations of it that focus on the development of characters and backgrounds.
http://www.plot-generator.org.uk/
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A free application that can be used… You guessed it! To build and create a plot from the ashes where there was none. Since genuine arguments that keep people interested in the story are hardly ever simple to come across with, this app aims to provide sufficient sources of inspiration for beginner writers to start shaping their newly thought worlds. But that’s not the only part of it, it also helps to create the lyrics of any potential songs and poems that young creative minds are putting into motion.