So for the past three years I used word processors only to write out my NaNoWriMo novels. First two years was Microsoft Word. Last year I used OpenOffice, but the word count it gave was slightly higher than normal.
However, it made it easy for me to create PDF files.
This year I am trying something different:
yWriter5.
It's free novel writing software!
To quote from their website (http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html)
- 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.
It will be interesting to use software that focuses on writing scenes. In fiction workshop, we always talk about balancing scene and summary, so I can focus on that with yWriter.
Again, it's free!
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