Looking for an application to help you with writing that perfect novel? Have a budget of near zero to spend on such endeavors? Check out yWriter and see if it’s for you.
This Windows-only application was written by a guy who’s a novelist and a programmer who tells us…
… yWriter is the result of 3 or 4 years of development. I really struggled over my first novel because I wrote whole slabs of text into a great big word processor file and tried to make sense of the whole thing at once. I then tried saving each chapter to individual files with great long descriptive filenames, but moving scenes around was a nuisance and I couldn’t get an overview of the whole thing (or easily search for one word amongst 32 files) In the end I realised a dedicated program was the way to go, and yWriter is the result. It may look simple, but as the author of three books written with this tool I can guarantee it has everything needed to get a first draft together.Best of all, yWriter is free.
If you give this a test drive, please let us know how it worked.
Alas, it is a Windows application, with no Mac version for me to play with.
Wow. I’ve been playing with this most of the day. This is a NICE little program. I can easily see how it would help with organizing a book.