If you need help with organizing or desire an easy way to sort out scenes, characters, and chapters, then feel free to use software for that. I’m not even sure he would have recommended any of the packages currently available if he’d had a chance to try them. No, Shakespeare didn’t use writing software, just the ‘wetware’ within his skull. What these software packages will (or can) do is help organize thoughts, keep information readily available to minimize searching for it, measure your progress (word count), and do the sort of low level, background stuff that you wish some assistant would take care of. Those are the hardest parts of writing fiction, and no software will do those things…yet. It won’t think for you it won’t come up with engaging characters, clever plot twists, or vivid settings. By itself, the software won’t improve your writing. Do not purchase or use writing software with the idea that it will make you a published author. My overall point here is to set expectations. If you have good ideas for your story in your head and the patience to answer the questions, I’m sure the software would prove useful. In my brief exposure to Writer’s DreamKit, I found that the software asks you an enormous number of questions before you can get going. I think yWriter would be quite useful for a complex novel. Since I do much of my writing while away from a computer using an ancient method involving a ‘pen’ and a ‘pad of paper,’ I was pleased with yWriter’s ability to print reports that could include my characters, scenes, items, and notes. It was a good way to organize notes, characters, etc.
For a short story, yWriter has far more features than I needed. I used yWriter5 for one of my short stories. It has a storyboard feature it includes a word usage feature to see if you’re over-using certain words and it keeps track of your daily word count in a log. It keeps readily available all the information about your characters, scene locations, and significant ‘items’ (objects) in your story. YWriter5 is free! It allows you to organize your novel by scenes, then chapters. I don’t blame the Writer’s DreamKit software I was able to explore around in it and get a feel for it, but I had problems when I restarted my computer the next time.
I also was given a disk with Writer’s DreamKit, but it reacted badly with my computer for some reason, and after restoring things I haven’t been brave enough to try it again. However, I did try out yWriter5, so I can comment on that one. When I thought of the idea for this blog post topic many months ago, I had intentions of test-driving at least two or three and giving you a comparison of those, at least. I don’t have the money or time to buy, test, and rate software packages, (though that would be interesting). Would you like a nice analytical comparison of all those writing software packages to help you choose the best one for you? Again, sorry, wrong blog post.
I mean software designed to help you write fiction stories, software packages like Liquid Story Binder, Marshall Plan for Novel Writing, Master Storyteller, MyNovel, Power Structure, Power Writer, Scrivener, StoryBlue, Storybook, Stor圜raft, StoryWeaver, WriteItNow, Writer’s Café, Writer’s DreamKit, WriteMonkey, and yWriter5. Wow! There are a lot of writing software packages available!īy writing software, I’m not talking about word processors like Corel Write, Microsoft Word, TextMaker, WordPerfect, etc.
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