About Mythistoria
Why Mythistoria?
Mythistoria is designed to be an all-in-one creative writing and world-building application built for novelists and storytellers alike to manage their process end-to-end in one project file for writing, worldbuilding, planning, plotting, organizing, and finally exporting in a distribution-ready format.
Game Development & Interactive Fiction
Organize your game world’s lore, narratives, plot, and the characters your players experience through your next interactive experience, whether it's a video game or an interactive novel.
Traditional Publishing Submission
Work through agents and publishers for a traditional publishing process with ready-to-use and distribute export formats.
Self-Publishing & Indie Authors
Work through self-publishing distribution with export formats required for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) standard format and universal EPUB format for your own self-publishing distribution.
What Mythistoria Offers:
A Dashboard for tracking your progress and planning the next steps of your writing journey
A Library for organizing each work in your series at a project-level
A Manuscript editor for writing your story
A Character Compendium for managing and organizing your characters across the entire project
A Bonds Web for visualizing the connections and relationships between your characters and factions
A Lorebook Compendium for managing and organizing the lore of your project across pre-built and custom types
An Annotated Map panel for visualizing and mapping out your story your imported maps
A Dedicated Research File Explorer for organizing project-specific reference files and keeping them readily accessible within the tool
A Revision Panel for tracking revision sessions
An Export Panel to take your stories out of Mythistoria in ready-to-use and distribute formats
Dashboard:
The dashboard helps you track your project while also monitoring the progress of each individual book (or equivalent creative work).
You have:
Book Progress (for tracking individual works called 'books' within the tool)
Monitor progress and statistics, track publishing readiness, and stay on schedule with your book.
Project Timeline
View writing streaks, word goal, projections, and how much more you estimate that you have left to write and prepare.
Project Statistics
Review statistics for your entire project.
Planner
Use boards and a calendar to create actionable plans and set reminders.
Receive updates and reminders daily (or at an interval of your choice) as you use Mythistoria.
Library:
The Library is the top-level view of your entire project, divided into each creative work you have added. The app calls these books, regardless of what type of work they are. These can be any type of creative work your writing is for.
You have:
Books: every book as a cover card to organize them throughout Mythistoria visually.
Series Bible: shared reference for the project as a whole condensing a summary of your project or series.
Series Overview: a look at how each book as you plan larger series regardless of how they look. A video game trilogy, a novel trilogy, or to maintain any other type of episodic creative work.
Manuscript:
The manuscript editor in Mythistoria has a typical document editor that we call the Writer View, but it also includes a Plotter View for plotting and Outline View for outlining.
Like other writing-centric software, Mythistoria includes a Typewriter Mode and Focus Mode to accommodate the writing styles of our writers.
Characters:
Mythistoria contains a character compendium where you can store information about your characters in a guided fashion, but with complete creative freedom to organize and restructure it to meet your needs and desires.
Our view is that the better a writer understands a character, the better chance they have of convincing the reader, user, consumer, etc. that they are a believable, unique character in a living world that they can get lost in.
Bonds:
Bonds is a visual relationship web for characters and factions. You have the ability to visualize the relationships of these two within your stories with project-level, book-level, and custom relationship webs.
Lorebook:
The Lorebook is your world-building reference library. By default, you have pre-built default types, but we also make it easy to add your own custom types or restructure the existing ones.
A writer shouldn't be locked into a pre-defined box or have to spend a bunch of extra money to have the same feature duplicated a dozen times with slight adjustments just to store their worldbuilding in an easy-to-use and access format.
Every writer has different needs, and the intention behind Mythistoria's lorebook is to allow you maximum creativity to meet those needs.
Maps:
The Maps Panel works as an annotated map tool. You import as many pictures as you'd like to represent the layers of your map and you can move those around, easily annotate them, and define the journey visually for your brain or even as an insert for your published media.
Our view was to make an efficient solution of annotating a map to visualize your character's journey instead of being locked in a clunky photo-editing software solution trying to do similar.
Research:
The Research Panel contains a mimic of a Windows-style file system, so that you can self-contain your project research. By default, several parts of the tool will place their files into this section as well for viewing and easy access.
The point of this is to self-contain your project files while in the project, so you don't have to go hunting through your file system, tab-in, tab-out.
Canvas:
The Canvas Boards work like a freeform canvas that you can place any number of objects on and organize as you please. It's essentially an infinite corkboard and mind mapping suite. Create mood boards, plotting structures, organize research, pictures, flowcharts, etc.
Inspired by more traditional enterprise business software, the canvas is 'yours' to make the most of for a writing process in mind.
Revision:
Revision is what you'd expect. It's a tab geared towards managing your revision passes and importing annotated .docx from your editor, beta readers, etc. Least fancy tab in Mythistoria, but exists purely to aid you in your story's revision.
Export:
Mythistoria exports your manuscript here in five formats:
.DOCX
.ePUB (E-Book Formats)
.PDF
.TXT (Plain Text)
.MD (Markdown)
.docx Exports in three different versions:
Manuscript Format Intended for sharing with agents, publicists, etc.
Editor Format For sharing with an editor to edit and review before returning to you.
Book / KDP Format For formal publishing, especially for self-publishing. It follows traditional KDP formatting.
Wiki:
Mythistoria has an in-built wiki, the same one we'll host on our website, to maintain knowledge of our tool and prepare you for success as you use the tool to craft your story. If you ever feel lost or want to learn more about how your tool works, we'll update and maintain this wiki to ensure your ongoing success through each new update.