Reading might feel like a bit of a pain because you’ve only got one scene per window and it’s not continuous: This way, I don’t lose any of my writing even though I’m not going to use it. For instance, I’ve got one chapter in Thanmir War that I’ve marked as unused, with a bunch of scenes that I wrote that I never used in the book: I can toggle a scene or even a chapter as unused. I’m also a person who writes a lot, and then tosses it out. I can run a report to find out word count per character. I might be writing a scene and decide to throw something in, and realize it might fit better in one spot than the other, or just dragging and dropping scenes from one chapter to another, yWriter makes that easy. The drag and drop ability to move scenes around is what got me the most. For instance, here is a view of Thanmir War: Phase two, I start breaking them into their own chapters. Phase 1, I just do it by putting it in the scene name:

I try to keep consistent chapter word counts, so this helps when I start figuring out how to group them together. It gives me a word count for each scene and whose POV it is. This is a glimpse of my current project to give you an idea: Since my natural method of writing is to write whatever I have in my brain, I just create a new scene, set the POV character, give a one-liner of what the scene’s about, drag to where I think I want it, and go. I mark my POVs as major (thus they appear darker) and the other characters I’ve defined as minor. I use yWriter for my larger projects because of the way I write: I have multiple points of views and I write scenes as I visualize them.įirst off, I can define my POVs (along with other of my numerous characters): (Click the pictures to view larger versions.) Here it is for all of you! Why I like yWriter (with pictures) She requested I post it to a more shareable platform, aka my blog. Others chimed in how much they liked Scrivener.īut that little “Thoughts?” part ending her inquiry made it hard for me to leave it at that. I quickly piped up that I loved it and used it for my big books. My friend Angela had asked our local Treasure Valley NaNo Facebook group if anyone used yWriter or something similar and what their thoughts were about it.

I had intended to post this last week, but illness struck the Town’s End (again), and I completely spaced blogging while I instead cared for my kiddos.

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