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20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools for Novelists

The software featured in this article is designed to meet the specialised needs of a budding novelist.

novelibre is a novel organizer for writers who use LibreOffice or OpenOffice.

WareWoolf is a minimalist novel-writing system and rich text editor built specifically for fiction writing.

NovProg tracks daily and total word counts for novels, charting writing progress against goals in a desktop application for Linux.

Scriptorium combines manuscript planning, scene-based writing and publishing with story elements, structure, preview, and EPUB export.

Bibisco is a novel writing environment for developing characters, settings, narrative strands, chapters, scenes, revisions and exports.

FocusWriter is a distraction-free word processor with themes, daily goals, live statistics, spell checking, timers, and session management.

Manuskript is a structured writing environment with outlining, character and plot tools, the Snowflake method, focused editing, and export.

Quoll Writer is a desktop writing environment with chapters, assets, notes, outlining, goals, statistics, focused editing, and export.