Built for a whole book
Chapters are separate, ordered and drag-and-drop reorderable, with a word goal for each and for the book, a history of every version, and a read-through of the entire manuscript.
Google Docs for writing a novel
Fable Tracker and Google Docs
A free, general-purpose online document editor.
What Google Docs is
Google Docs is a flexible document editor many writers start with. It is easy to share and to edit with others, and it works for almost any kind of document.
Fable Tracker is a private writing studio and lore wiki for novelists and worldbuilders. You draft chapters, build your world’s history, and link the two together.
Your world, not a pile of documents
Instead of scattered notes, keep a linked wiki with a timeline, maps and relationships, connected to the chapters.
A quiet place to write
Focus mode, typewriter mode, page settings, tidy tools for quotes and dashes, and gentle style suggestions, without the clutter of a general office suite.
When Google Docs may suit you better
- You mainly need real-time editing with many people at once.
- You write short documents rather than a long, connected body of work.
Moving over, or trying both
In Google Docs, choose File, Download, Microsoft Word (.docx), then import that file into a manuscript here. Fable Tracker imports Markdown, plain text and Word (.docx) files for chapters, and exports everything as plain files, Word and EPUB, so moving never locks you in.
Writing, lore and export are free, and paid plans only add capacity. See the plans.
Also see: World Anvil · Kanka · Scrivener · Notion · Obsidian
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