Comments on: Software for Writers: yWriter 4

By: Ryan Fellows-Fitts

Ryan Fellows-Fitts — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:39:34 +0000

I am a story writing fanatic! I love writing stories! When somebody told me about this software at school, when I got home, I whizzed to the computer and downloaded it! That was actually just today, on the 12/10/2010 and my birthday is this Saturday 16/10/2010 and this was a perfect gift from my friend! Best of all, it’s free!

By: frootbat31

frootbat31 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:47:54 +0000

I love how YWriter is free, but I find its a bit clumsy with the interface. Out of the writing software I tried out, this one offered the least amount of time to learn the bells and whistles.
I found spending way too much time organizing and not enough time writing. I can see the program offers much to a more organized mind, or writers who want free writing software to help organize their novel.
After fiddling with it, I ended up going back to MS Word with the Chapter by Chapter program.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:27:29 +0000

???

Blogging is, by definition, writing. There are no bloggers who don’t write.

I’m not a noveist (yet>). I write non-fiction — two books so far, one in Word, one using Buzzword. And any number of articles, mostly in Word or Buzzword. For blogging, I use Windows Live Writer, except for this blog, where I’ve used Buzzword so far.

Any suitably powerful piece of software is going to have a learning curve — that’s just a fact. Liquid Story Binder (or Scrivenir on the Mac) have great numbers of fans, and once learned, are supposed to be great at working on long documents like novels.

By: Enisstjohn

Enisstjohn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:19:36 +0000

Of all the bloggers in all the world there seem to be those who write and those who talk about writing. I want to write and I need a software that will allow me to do that with the least interference. Has one been developed?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:01:54 +0000

enisstjohn ,

I’ve written up Liquid Story Binder on this site, which is expressly for writers, but there’s a pretty steep learning curve. Also, look up my series on using Word 2007 — there’s a lot of tips that apply to 2003 and earlier versions, too. And, to be fair, I like yWriter, a lot, though I don’t really do the kind of writing it’s geared towards.

By: enisstjohn

enisstjohn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:01:47 +0000

I am using Word 2007 as a platform on which to write a novel, and I find that I’m spending more time chasing the software than I am writing. What software is user friendly to write with and edit?