By Atlantafan1087 on

I am planning on creating a Drupal site for creative writing. My vision is for users to be able to create short stories, novels, poems, etc... and publish them to the rest of the community when they like. There will also be a library feature where you can view all works that you "follow" from other users and created yourself. I am very new to CMSs and doing my research it seems that Drupal 7 may be a good for me to use. I say 7 because it looks like their are more modules for this version since it has been around longer.

I need to do a lot more research since I have never done a project like this before. I see that Drupal has a Book Module but I am not sure it is intended to be used the way I would like it.

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paulmckibben
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Hello @Atlantafan1087,

You could certainly use Drupal 7 or 8 for this. For new projects, my rule is always: assume Drupal 8 until you find there's something you can only reasonably do in Drupal 7. In your case, 8 seems like it should be fine.

The Book module is a good way to organize content (nodes) in a hierarchy. So you could use that module as a way to organize a book with several chapters, each chapter being a node. Is that what you had in mind?

--Paul

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Atlantafan1087 commented

Yes, I want users to be able to have a working copy of a short story, book, or poem (really any form of literature) and be able to "publish" it out to the community when they desire. I want to have a feature that keeps all of your works in a sort of a library feature that you go into and can open anyone up.

Thanks for the tip on Drupal 8. I will look into it. This is for a project at school so I have somewhat of a short time line (7 months) and I know what I want the website to do, just trying to figure out how to create it (pretty much no website developing experience). I hear Drupal has a slight learning curve but you can do a lot with it.

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You might enjoy working through the book "Using Drupal" to get yourself up to speed on how the whole thing works. Its mostly written from a site-builder's perspective, and will give you handle on Drupal's way of doing things.

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Atlantafan1087 commented

Thanks for your input! will look into that book. I have been browsing the internet and watching Youtube videos trying to see if I have enough time (7 months for my project) to learn Drupal and create my site.