Providing useful resources such as character questionnaires and plot templates.Plotting and planning out the structure.Offering guidance on how to write a good novel.‘Novel writing software’ is a bit of a nebulous term, and there are many aspects of novel writing that software could help with, for example: Some people swear by old school pen and paper, writing everything out longhand.īut increasingly, writers are turning to specialised tools to help them write novels more efficiently and effectively, and in most cases, that means novel writing software. I’m talking about how you get the actual novel from your head and onto a sheet of paper (even if that’s a digital sheet of paper). Now a teacher of English to speakers of other languages at beginner level, Rowena is now exploring the joys of picture books but will no doubt return to the wonderful world of the novel in the near future.There are many ways to write a novel – and I’m not talking planners and pantsers right now. Rowena Tayler-Henry wrote the user documentation for Simon Haynes' indispensable program for writers, yWriter, so that other authors could get the full benefit of yWriter's many useful features. If you believe you can help, please see the Contributors Page.Ībout the author of this guide, Rowena Tayler-Henry: Some of the links still need fixing and there are many places where the documentation needs updating. Therefore, I've converted the PDF to HTML and have pasted the entire file here so that contributors to the wiki can update the information. The original file was a PDF, and my efforts to obtain the HTML source were unsuccessful. This Quickstart guide was written by Rowena Tayler-Henry in 2008, and was based on an early release of yWriter5. Version 1.1 converted to HTML and uploaded here by Simon Haynes Version 1.0 By Rowena Tayler-Henry (2008) When creating a new page, please ensure it's created under the Quickstart Guide page.Ĭut the content from the main page, paste into the new page, tidy it up and then update the link from the main document so that it points to your new page. We can always include links to other parts of the Wiki.

information on Simon Haynes, anything explaining what yWriter was designed for, etc. This means removing any information which is already on the Spacejock website. The guide should be updated to focus purely on getting started, setting default options. Replace any outdated images or information. Just change the text to say (as shown) instead

Update the text so it doesn't say (as shown left) when the image is below, above, etc. They all appear together at the top of each section. Drag/drop images into the correct location in the text.

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