I’m starting a project to create a web-based novel planning application, and I plan on using this blog to post about the various technological hurdles I find myself jumping over while working on it.
My idea is that all the information you need to write your novel – chapter/scene outlines, characters, places, research information – should be easily findable so that it distracts you from your writing as little as possible.
At present I won’t be providing the facility to actually write the novel in the application, but maybe in a future version.
Technologies I’m planning on using:
- Ruby on Rails (or maybe Django)
- CouchDB
- JQuery
- OpenID
PS: Pardon the mess while I get WordPress set up.