![]() You can fill in names, descriptions, bios, any notes, goals, and even pictures. The depth to which you outline is up to you and yWriter allows you to be as detailed or as vague as you like.Īlthough Scenes is the default, there are other things you can view in the center screen-including Characters. I take note of my ideas and try not to let my perfectionist personality bark at me for not having every last chapter wrapped up in a pretty bow with exactly so-and-so many scenes. So some chapters have no scenes at all while some have several. You can fill in Content with your writing, Description with what you want to happen during the scene, Characters who are present, Location, Items you include, as well as Scene Notes and Goals.Īs much as I would like to have every scene planned, my brain doesn’t seem to work that way. You have more freedom with scenes than with the chapter descriptions, though. The scenes are in a list in the center of the screen. Since I outline my chapters in paragraphs, this allows me to see my map for each chapter, where the story is going, and who’s in it with as little effort as it takes to look to my left. In the bottom left is a box in which the chapter description is visible. The project is the main hub where the chapters, scenes, characters, and notes are kept.Īt the top in the tab titled Chapters is the option to “Create New Chapter.” I called each one “Chapter Fifteen, Chapter Sixteen…” and so on until I realized that on the left sidebar all I could read was “Chapter, Chapter…” So I went back and changed them to “Fifteen, Sixteen.” You can set up projects for all of the current novels you’re working on. YWriter allows you to create different folders for each of your novels called Projects. Character charts, chapter outlines, summaries, taglines, and of course, those notes that don’t fit into clean categories…where to put it all? yWriter offers a solution. Having my outline as well as the finite details of my writing project in one place is liberating! I’ve struggled with how to organize my writing. But as I began to customize it to my WIP, I became a fan. Honestly, for the first ten minutes, I didn’t care for it. Since it was free, I decided to download it. I thought I wasn’t techie enough for special “writing software.”Ĭlick here to download your free version of ywriter Weiland first mentioned it in Outlining Your Novel.
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