yWriter5 5.0.6.7

yWriter5 5.0.6.7 is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. It  helps you keep track of your work, leaving your mind free to create.

This software is designed for Windows XP, Vista and beyond. Windows 98 and ME users should be able to use it, but those operating systems are unsupported.

yWriter is free to download and use!

Why does yWriter focus on scenes instead of chapters?

• A scene is a pleasant chunk to work on - small and well-defined, you can slot them into your novel, dragging and dropping them from one chapter to another as you interleave strands from different viewpoint characters and work out the overall flow of your book. You can also mark a scene as 'unused' if you've written yourself into a dead end, which will keep it out of the word count and exports without deleting the content.
• Of course, you can't just write a bunch of unrelated scenes. You need an overall design goal ... your plot. yWriter will generate a number of different reports from your scene and chapter summaries, from a brief scene list to a comprehensive synopsis. If you update the 'readiness' setting for each scene it will even generate a work schedule showing what you have to do to meet your deadline for the outline, first draft, first edit and second edit.
• yWriter also allows you to add scenes with no content - just type a brief description and you can pretend you've written it. This is great for the parts you're not ready to write yet, or for when you get blocked. Skip over that part and come back later! Unfinished scenes, rough ideas ... it's so much harder to keep track of them when they're all pasted into one long word processing document.

Major Features:

1. Organise your novel using a 'project'.
2. Add chapters to the project.
3. Add scenes, characters, items and locations.
4. Display the word count for every file in the project, along with a total.
5. Saves a log file every day, showing words per file and the total. (Tracks your progress)
6. Saves automatic backups at user-specified intervals.
7. Allows multiple scenes within chapters
8. Viewpoint character, goal, conflict and outcome fields for each scene.
9. Multiple characters per scene.
10. Storyboard view, a visual layout of your work.
11. Re-order scenes within chapters.
12. Drag and drop of chapters, scenes, characters, items and locations.
13. Automatic chapter renumbering.

Enhancements:

• There are lots of usability tweaks such as drag/dropping.
• Full screen editor.
• Automatic daily zip of the entire project.

Requirements: Dotnet 2.0 Framework

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