(Yes, this is the "write" place. Get it? Write... haha... Yeah, I know. Shut up.) :P

This discussion actually came up in another thread a while back, and it seems the general consensus here is that there is no such free or readily available program to do such a thing (except for the one in Neverwinter Nights; that program is actually very nice, but it's integrated into the game and cannot be used separately).

Eventually, I think I'll make my own open source application to do just what the writing community and I are asking for (I program as well as write), but it'll be a while until then...

For now, I just keep all of my writing in Word documents within organized and properly named folders. It kind of is a pain with larger projects, I know, but that's just how it is. :( Someday...

Personally, I've used a wiki in the past with a fair degree of success. It allows you to have one page per character, or per place, or per major event, and everything is very easily crosslinked.

I used to run OpenWiki on my PC, mainly because it's ASP-based and as such I could run it on Windows XP Pro without having to download and install any web servers or anything.