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hey guys my name is Iasmina and welcome back to my channel I make weekly videos

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button and today's video I'm going to show you 10 more awesome writing tools

now about a year ago I made a video about best writing tools which I will

link up here and down in description of course if you haven't checked that out

please check that out because I won't repeat the tools that I mentioned that

video that video has also been getting constant views ever since it was first

uploaded so I guess you guys really like me talking about writing tools so here

are 10 more awesome tools that I found since making that video the first

awesome tool that I want to talk about today is actually sponsoring today's

video which is very exciting I was planning on talking about this app

anyway and when they reached out to ask if I want to collaborate that was

perfect timing so the first tool that I'm gonna talk

about is campfire so what is campfire campfire is a writing tool meant for

organizing your story and it is especially useful if you're writing

something like fantasy or science fiction we have a lot of world-building

and a lot of moving elements and it's sometimes I know pretty difficult to

keep track of everything and campfire is perfect for that the awesome thing about

it is that it has all of these tools that help you organize your story so

character sheets character arcs and time lines are one of the most useful things

in my opinion so you can create time lines for each of your character and

each of your plots for each of your character and then move them around and

make sure everything works as expected the magic system creator inside the

world building Pakistan toxic it really helps you think about your magic system

and create really cool magic systems and as well for languages it helps you

create languages it helps you create sort of magical items characters

creatures anything you can imagine this tool has it now the UI is very

clean and simple but it does take a little bit of getting used to in my

opinion to figure out where things are but if you use it for a while that I

think it makes perfect sense and you can find the things that you need straight

away so chem fire is a one-time purchase of $49.99 usually and the world-building

pack is an extra add-on but I highly highly recommend it again and have a

discount code for you guys of course down in description so make sure you

check that out if you're interested in the software and yeah honestly guys I

really like comfort I've used it before they contacted me to sponsor my video

and I would highly recommend it especially if you're writing fantasy and

science fiction alright let's move on to my second recommendation for writing

tool and that is pro writing it the best editing tool I've come across I've used

grammerly I've used Hemingway editor both of which I mentioned in the last

video that I did but since then I've used pro writing aid and honestly

nothing compares pro writing 8 is just amazing at editing it catches so many

things and it has so many settings Pro writing 8 and editing tools in general

are not a substitute for professional edit not close but in the beginning in

the beginning stages of editing and just so you can get better at your own

writing before professional editing it is fantastic oh my gosh it catches

everything there is a plugin for word and for Scrivener I'm pretty sure and

for many other sort of popular word processors there's also a browser

version of it so yeah it's just if you want if you're looking for a good

editing tool and you use grammarly and Hemingway editor and things like that

any heavens try it out Pro writing aid it will change your up if you change

your writing life I'll just say it that way next writing tool I want to mention

is Red Sea and now Red Sea is not just writing tool it's just like a an empire

it's a fantastic resource for so many different things if you want help with

your stories if you want help with formatting if you want to help find

editor's covered designers proofreaders anything like that there's so many

things you can do on receipt that I don't have time to cover it in this

video so obviously I'm just going to leave a

link in the description so you can browse to your heart's desire because

honestly it's super helpful it just generally has useful writing information

if you just want to find out about a specific thing like copywriting your

book or you know editing formatting your book for a specific self-publishing

platform really has everything you can imagine all in one platform so totally

recommend checking that out next up is a more specific writing tool and it's a

raining tool for formatting your books and that is a vellum now I fell in love

with --velum --velum has a free version that you can use indefinitely however

you cannot you cannot compile the final files to then use you know if you're

gonna self publish or even you know just if you want proofs of your work so you

can do ebook formatting for all types of eBook formats and also paperback and

hardback so print formatting and it's so clean and easy and beautiful to use it

does have some limitations because you know it only has a certain amount of

fonts for example it only has a certain amount of things but it is still highly

highly customizable and I was using this offer for such a long time and I I told

myself oh it's it's a bit expensive so I told myself oh I really you know it's

too expensive I'm gonna try some free tools I'm gonna talk about some next but

you know I was trying to format in Word and Scrivener because these programs

already have built in sort of formats and capabilities but they're really

really a pain to use and vellum is just so beautiful and so one day I bit the

bullet and I bought it and honestly no regrets it's just fantastic so if you're

looking for formatting your books seriously check out the vellum it's

again it's a one-time purchase so you know you can pay professional for

matters to format your book but they're usually pretty expensive anyway and if

you're gonna you you know you're gonna write and publish

multiple books then you know investing and something like vellum is a one-time

thing and then you can create as many books as you want so you're kind of

saving money in the long term in that sense but since we're on the topic of

formatting your books and one free resource I want to talk about and this

subject is draft2digital now again like Reed C Draft digital is

many things in one so draft2digital is more like a self

publishing platform but it has a ton of tools that you can use for free like

formatting your ebooks and print books so if you're looking for a free

alternative to formatting your books and you don't want to spend time trying to

figure it out in Word and Scrivener and things like that then check out

draft2digital the next tool is useful for editing purposes and it's called

natural readers comm and it's basically a text-to-speech program now you can

find these if you have Scrivener there Scrivener actually has a built-in

text-to-speech but if you don't have Scrivener and you're looking for

something like that then check out natural readers comm you can copy

chapters of your book in and then it'll read it out to you in a natural voice

they say but basically hearing your text read aloud is super super useful for

editing purposes so I highly recommend doing that when you're self editing at

some point in the self editing process and obviously sometimes it's hard to

read it yourself or it takes a lot of effort I know so use something like this

and it's actually pretty useful and it's like they say it is sounds pretty

natural in my opinion and the last three tools I want to talk about are all about

actual writing apps and productivity apps the first one is called scribbler

or dangerous writing app so I think you've heard maybe of writer die it's

kind of the same thing but writer dies UI is atrocious out I'm sorry it is

scribbler is the clean nice alternative of that so it's basically it's an online

app where it's free you go and you start typing and then you can set a limit on

how much you want to type so say 15 minutes and if you don't finish in 15

if you don't type in 15 minutes then all your work just disappears it's quite

stressful but if you're struggling with procrastination of your writing then try

something like this just try it once and see if it's if it all works for you of

course you don't have to use is just something that might be helpful to some

writers that are struggling with procrastinating on their writing I've

been there I know the next one is called stay focused this is again it's a Chrome

extension and it might be for other browsers I'm not sure I use Chrome it's

a Chrome extension and it basically you can select sort of sites to block while

you're focused on your task so say okay I want to write for the next 30 minutes

and I don't want to be distracted because again I know it's so easy to be

distracted in today's age by YouTube Facebook reddit Twitter on and on and on

so you can block these sites for a limited amount of time while you're

focused on your task so you cannot access them and the final tool I want to

talk about is called calmly writer and is an online word processor it is so

clean and so smooth and so when you first open it it's like you're kind of

expecting something to pop up or something to happen because it's just

like it's almost a blank screen and that's it then that's all you need to

really start writing and so you can write in it it'll it has cloud saving

Casey it saves your work and like Venice cobbler that deletes your work if you're

not fast enough but it's just an online word processor that is super super clean

and again sort of has this idea of no distractions just right I like that

wasn't the last one I cannot count apparently the last one is called word

counters comm and this is a useful site I found when I was searching up sort of

different word counts for different genres of books so I made a video about

how long your novel should be a link up here where I showed this tool so

basically if you go on it you can see sort of word counts of very famous books

you can search up specific books to see their word counts just so you can get an

eye do what the standard in a specific genre

is the stunt the standard in the genre that you're writing is you know if

you're just curious that what a book that you've read how long it actually is

in word count because as writers we know that we measure things in word counts

and not in page length because that can be easily easily manipulated and so this

is just a super useful resource I have found randomly one day when I was

searching up things about word counts in famous books and I thought I should

share because I think it's great but there you have it those were the 10

awesome writing tools that I found so if I made my last video and I wanted to

share with you guys today so I really hope you guys found this

video helpful again of course I'll leave links to everything I mentioned in

today's video down in description and do let me know what other tools you guys

have used but I haven't mentioned in today's video and the other video that

you think are interesting and useful and that I might check out for myself and

then maybe in the future I'll make another video with even more awesome

tools if I find any more but that was it for me today guys thank you so much for

watching I will leave links to other similar videos at the end of this video

so I hope you guys enjoy today's video and I hope you have a great day

and have a grade writing date and just write those words okay write all the

words right see you guys next week in a new video bye

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