#booksky

When I was six I hid inside a stage between our school gym and the lunchroom during recess. I had no friends, so I read books. I then started doing this all the time, one I read was Clive Barker “Thief of Always”. I did this until I got in trouble. It’s a fond memory. #booksky #memories

🔥 Kindling v1.0.0-beta is live!

Free, open-source writing app that keeps your outline visible while you draft. Import from Plottr, Markdown, yWriter, Obsidian.

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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WriterSky #AuthorSky

You spent 40 hours building character sheets, timelines, scene beats, a world bible.
Then you open a blank doc to write and... none of it's there.
This is fixable. Working on it.

Something that took me too long to learn:
Your outline isn't a contract. It's scaffolding.
It's there to support your draft, not imprison it.

Building a writing app that does one thing: brings your outline INTO your drafting space.
Scene beats become expandable prompts. Characters auto-surface when relevant.
Free, open source, no subscription. Just trying to fix my own workflow honestly.

The problem with most writing software isn't features.
It's that your outline and your draft live in completely different universes.
All that planning work, then you start from scratch in a blank doc anyway.

Curious how other plotters work:
When you sit down to draft, where's your outline? Another tab? Printed next to you? Do you just try to remember it?
(No judgment, mine's chaos)

The blank page isn't a creativity problem. It's a context problem.
Your outline exists. Your character notes exist. But when you open your writing app... it pretends they don't.
Why do we accept this?

Ever spent weeks building a beautiful outline... only to stare at a blank document when it's time to write?
You're not broken. Your tools are.
(Building something to fix this, actually)