I do not know if any of you know what Ywriter is, but it is the most amazing program for writing that I have ever found. (And it makes editing easier after WriMo.) I will link to it since we were talking about it tonight during the Write In and someone suggested to me that they were interested in checking it out. I am suggesting it to all you lovely people.
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
Go to the page, check it out, take a few minutes to get accustomed to it and it will change the way you write. No more fear of writing something that doesn't fit because you can move it ANYWHERE. Highlight things you might want to delete later so it doesn't affect your word counts. It's AMAZING.
enough pimping- back to writing!
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There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 20 27
I started using it for my Wrimo project and definitely agree that it's an excellent program. Just the ability to easily keep track of notes, characters, locations, what pov I'm using from scene to scene makes it well worth the cost... of nothing.
That being said, I'm still typing the actual scenes in Open Office. Right now, everything else is going into yWriter.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 06 30
Open Office rocks my socks!
I've found that typing things out in Office and then putting them in Ywriter is counterproductive for me, personally. The extra move makes things difficult for me. It's much easier just to type out an entire scene and then move to the next. With the synopsis tool I can quickly figure out what's where in my novel, move things where I need it, and then when it's time to back up my novel, I just export it to an RTF and post that on Googledocs! Easy Peasy!
I think it helps that the program was designed by an actual writer. Thank goodness he also knows programming.
----------There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.
38,024 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 08 48
That's pretty much what I've been doing. As I finish a scene, I start a new Open Office file and move on to it.