Timeline - help needed

[marshwriter]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a template/ program in which to make a timeline of the world of Airthai - one which I can keep on adding to as the world keeps on growing.

Does anyone know of a good template to use? I have one in Excel that's halfway doing the job, but it cannot handle a couple of thousand years of history, never mind a number of kingdoms, etc...

Thanks in advance,
Marsh

[birdnerd]

I, being a low tech sort, would use a notebook or ... as one of our colleagues suggested, notecards in a file box or in sleeves in a binder.

[catofninetales]

May I suggest yWriter? You can put in your details as you sketch them out, all the way up to fully drafted text. There are a lot of graph-style visual aids, notekeeping spaces, and tools for managing your content during revising.

You can do some interesting side items such as rating your scenes for things like conflict, humour etc. to generate graphs which give you a visual of your story's arc and rhythm.

www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html

[marshwriter]

Oooo... that program looks very interesting! I at last went the low-tech route and made one in MSExcel - so far so good! ;D

[morganlbusse]

I'm a visual person and find the computer screen too small to draw out time lines. So I go low-techie (ooo, I like that word ) and use large poster boards.

[Kristen]

Morwena -- clearly, you need a bigger monitor.

Marsh, I use Excel for timelines also. Since you're dealing on the scale of millennia, it might be easier to have separate sheets in your workbook for each major time period. For example, if I were doing a timeline for the Bible, I might put the OT on one sheet, then the intertestamental period on another, the NT on a third... you get the idea.