Like I said before, I don't even use 80% of the novel writing features in the software. It's also nice to be able to see how many days you actually worked on a file by going into the backup folder and looking at the individual backup points (stored in individual folders). This means you're always able to go back and see exactly where something was on a particular date. The software automatically creates a backup file each time you open a “Book” in yWriter. The other powerful feature I love is the backup system. If you ever choose to move to a different platform, your files will still all be usable. It works as a database, but the RTF files can be opened by any modern word processing program. yWriter uses RTF files to store all the information you put in. One of the biggest features for me how everything is stored. The organizational structure lets you prepare information for courses, research, news, and makes it remarkably easy to find what you've stored. I know the software isn't focused on being a personal database, but that's exactly what it is for me. I organized it into several yWriter books, with chapters and scenes. On that first day, I also went through most of the Word Documents I was using to store information from the web and other sources. Now, instead of trying to write the book from the beginning to the end, I was able to race to the computer when inspiration struck, and write scenes from different parts of the novel out of sequence. It was now incredibly easy to open the file, and be at the exact spot in the exact scene I wanted to write on in only a few seconds. The first day I started using yWriter, I could see an instant transformation. I stopped using Word Documents for writing that very day I've never used those tools, but instead focus on the things that work well for me. It has areas where you can describe your locations and characters. Writing was going slow, and so I started searching for a different solution.Īt first, yWriter seemed like overkill. That helped a bit, but I found I would sometimes get into that old Word Doc issue of having to open up five documents in order to find the place where I wanted to write. I tried splitting up my book by chapters. The book started out as ideas in a Word document.Īs the file got longer, I found it hard to find my place whenever I wanted to add to my draft. I started using yWriter when I was writing my motivational fable, Diamonds and Silver back in 2008. Up until I found yWriter, I felt like I kept running up against a wall every time I sat down to write. This is breaking news for me, but it turns out that the newest software was released in July 2015. yWriter is the software I've used to write all of my books. I was happily surprised to find out that Simon Haynes, over at Spacejock Software has released yWriter 6. For some reason I felt like checking to see if there were any updates to one of my favourite pieces of software.
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