(this item first appeared in our January newsletter)
It seems a bit of an oxymoron, automation for creative writing, but hwy not? I’m sure Shakespeare would have welcomed the typewriter, so why not software tools and Apps?
Simon Haynes is a writer and a programmer who has brought both skills together to create a free software tool yWirter. It’s 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.
yWriter allows you to add scenes with no content - just type a brief description and you can pretend you've written it. This is great for the parts you're not ready to write yet, or for when you get blocked. Skip over that part and come back later! Unfinished scenes, rough ideas ... it's so much harder to keep track of them when they're all pasted into one long word processing document.
Features:
Organise your novel using a project.
Add chapters to the project.
Add scenes, characters, items and locations.
Display the word count for every file in the project, along with a total.
Saves a log file every day, showing words per file and the total. (Tracks your progress)
Saves automatic backups at user-specified intervals.
Allows multiple scenes within chapters
Viewpoint character, goal, conflict and outcome fields for each scene.
Multiple characters per scene.
Storyboard view, a visual layout of your work.
Re-order scenes within chapters.
Drag and drop of chapters, scenes, characters, items and locations.
Automatic chapter renumbering.
If you would like to try it out for yourself, this is the link: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
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It seems a bit of an oxymoron, automation for creative writing, but hwy not? I’m sure Shakespeare would have welcomed the typewriter, so why not software tools and Apps?
Simon Haynes is a writer and a programmer who has brought both skills together to create a free software tool yWirter. It’s 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.
yWriter allows you to add scenes with no content - just type a brief description and you can pretend you've written it. This is great for the parts you're not ready to write yet, or for when you get blocked. Skip over that part and come back later! Unfinished scenes, rough ideas ... it's so much harder to keep track of them when they're all pasted into one long word processing document.
Features:
Organise your novel using a project.
Add chapters to the project.
Add scenes, characters, items and locations.
Display the word count for every file in the project, along with a total.
Saves a log file every day, showing words per file and the total. (Tracks your progress)
Saves automatic backups at user-specified intervals.
Allows multiple scenes within chapters
Viewpoint character, goal, conflict and outcome fields for each scene.
Multiple characters per scene.
Storyboard view, a visual layout of your work.
Re-order scenes within chapters.
Drag and drop of chapters, scenes, characters, items and locations.
Automatic chapter renumbering.
If you would like to try it out for yourself, this is the link: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
Click to read all Writer's Tips Blog posts