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In fact, I'll even plug his books, the Hal Spacejock series of funny science fiction novels. As you can see, I like yWriter a lot, so much so that I went ahead and donated some money to Simon Haynes, the developer of yWriter. I also use yWriter to keep track of my blog posts for Write Anything, to write and keep organized interviews and guest blog posts that I've done, and to do NaNoWriMo, of which "Goodbye Grammarian" is an example. Other chapters are for conventional short stories (~4K), poems, song lyrics, non-fiction pieces and other items. I use a new "chapter" for each year's FridayFlash stories, with each story being a new "scene". It's easy to make background notes on characters, places and objects, to map out plotting notes and to identify which scenes are at the stage of rough draft, 1st edit, 2nd edit, line edit or completed.Īlmost all of my short stories are written in yWriter. I can edit each scene's text and instantly see how long each scene & chapter is. Each chapter has multiple "scenes" - the stories themselves. The file for "Blood Picnic and other stories". So how do I use it to write my short stories, blog posts and novel(s)? Pictures are worth a thousand words (click on any of them to enlarge): (See here for an explanation of why the developer made if free).
Also, the program is free, as in beer the download is the full program, with no registration, no time limits, no expiry. It does almost everything I need, helps to keep me organized and would even help me to be more productive and a faster writer if I used all of its features. (Although yWriter was designed for novels, enterprising users have created their own translation files to customise the program to work with plays, non-fiction and even sermons.)I love yWriter, and I guess I'm one of those "enterprising users", since I use it for a lot more than novels. The only time it uses the internet is if you use the inbuilt 'check for update' routine (in which case yWriter simply reads the latest available version number from ), or the 'backup to ftp' feature (in which case you have to provide the server address and login details.) It doesn't need or use an internet connection, and all data is stored on your own computer. YWriter is a standalone application which runs on Windows PCs. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. YWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. Here's the brief introduction to the yWriter software, from the developer's website: After my blog post last week on story order in assembling an anthology, I had some comments specifically about yWriter.
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