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1. YWriter, a free Spacejock program (available at ) is the quintessential organizer for writers. It allows you to see yo.
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3. Novel-writing software. YWriter allows you to write and edit your novel on the go. Unlike a word processor, yWriter displays your novel in chapters and scenes, making it much easier to keep track of everything. And its not just for novels - yWriter is also handy for note-taking, using the chapters as categories and scenes for separate files. YWriter is the official Android port of the popular.

There are dozens of tools out there that are designed to help make the writing process easier, a lot of which are targeted towards non-linear writing. Today, I’d like to dive into yWriter and Scrivener, both of which are exceptional tools in this space. Both tools allow building of scenes and being able to arrange them on the fly or tag them. You can also track your word counts and progress in both tools, but they have a few differences. If you just want a raw comparison, here you go:

That is the broad overview of the comparisons, but feel free to read on for the deep dive on each.

How To Use Ywriter

Scrivener (/ ˈ s k r ɪ v ən ər /) is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata.This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.).

Scrivener Overview

Scrivener, made by Literature and Latte (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php) is a fantastic tool that I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog already. It is highly evolved and targeted initially towards Mac users (although they do make it available to Windows users as well).

• Everything works from a single text “unit” that can be labeled as a scene, a character bio, a location, or anything else. This creates a lot of flexibility. Do you need to track magic spells available for whatever reason? Just start labeling the documents that way and add icons.
• The arrangement of scenes (or “texts”) is very intuitive and easy, built on a folder structure (which, incidentally can also contain writing). It’s very drag-and-drop friendly to arrange your scenes both from an order perspective as well as a hierarchical perspective. You also can add color coding to an outline view to give yourself detailed looks at content.
• The cork-board view expands the concept of moving things around and arranging them where you like them. It really lets you get the feel of organizing notecards (which can also be color-coded and labeled) to decide where you want. Even aside from that, you can view your scenes in a single browser, compare scenes to each other in the same windows, and get lots of ways of looking at the data.
• Keywords and Metadata attributes can be assigned to each scene (document). For instance, you could create a metadata field entitled “Location.” On each scene, you’d have the ability to type in the location and populate. Likewise, you could create a list of characters using keywords (with each new character having its own keyword). You then could assign a color-coded character to your scenes to make life fast and easy when scanning scenes to see who is in it.

You can get Scrivener for $40 USD, but if you time your purchase around one of the Nanowrimo events, you can pick a copy up with a discount, making it a great buy.

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yWriter

Erlang for mac. yWriter by Spacejock software (http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html) is another great tool, and also has the added benefit of being completely free. A few of its highlights:

• While it lacks some of the flexibility and customization on its units as Scrivener, it has hardcoded several elements including Scenes, Characters, Locations and Items. These have their own properties and unique traits. This lets you add a lot of meta-information about them that are unique to that type of thing. Beyond that, you can see how these things relate to one another, and perform detailed analytics on those relationships. IE: Pick a character and see how many scenes that character appears in… How many scenes that character is the POV character for (which is just another thing that is hardcoded and thus can be reported on).
• If you’ve ever read Dwight V Swain’s book Techniques of the Selling Writer, you’ve seen how he breaks apart scene structure as Action/Reaction and goals. This helps make sure that your scenes are actually bringing content to your story. Yes, I recognize that it is oversimplifying things, but it’s a great tool to use. A great reference book to read as well if you haven’t (heavy read though!).
• Reporting and metrics are better. You can see in a quick window your word count per scene/chapter/section/etc. You can see your words per minute while typing. Everything is tracked and highly visible. Is this necessary? It’s a personal preference, but I know I like to see if I can keep my WPM up on a first draft to ensure that I am getting some writing done. By the same token, you also can track (and graph) attributes you’ve defined based on each scene, such as comedy, intensity, villain redemption, etc. Coupled with the graph, you can make sure your peaks and valleys are where you’d expect them.

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All in all, both are great tools and worth looking at. Which do you prefer? Something else all together?

Use the option Tools - Backups - Restore Autobackup. Just select your last known good full backup from the list, tell it the folder to restore to (NOT a folder that already contains a yWriter project!), and it will restore a working copy of your project.

NOTE: You can also use this to create a clean copy of your project without all the old backups.

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Sometimes, though, you may be able to recover a corrupted project without going back to an old backup. Here are the steps to try.

Manual troubleshooting and restore:

1) Close yWriter. Chromecast for mac safari.

2) Find and make a safe copy of your log.txt file so that you can send it to Simon if he needs it. On a Windows XP system, it will be in (drive letter):Documents and Settings(your user name)Application DataSpacejock SoftwareyWriter5. On Vista or Win 7, it will be in (drive letter):Users(your user name)AppDataRoamingSpacejock SoftwareyWriter5.

You may want to look at it in a text editor to see if you see an obvious reason for your project file becoming corrupted. (For example, if someone accidentally deleted or renamed your RTF5 folder in your project, it will recreate the folder with nothing in it, and there would probably be a log entry for that.) Note that you can display it from yWriter option Tools - Debug - View Log, if you have yWriter set so it doesn't reopen your corrupted project.

3) Before doing anything else, make a safe copy of your project folder and all of its contents. You don't want to make any changes to the copy, just keep it so you have something you can copy back in and start over with if your first recovery attempt is unsuccessful.

4) Open your project folder and see what's in it. There should be 5 folders and 2 files.

The folders are Autobackups, Export, Images, Logs, and RTF5. The files should be (your project name).yw5 and (your project name).yw5.bak.

If there's a .lock file, it means that yWriter either has the project open or that it crashed while the project was open. In a recovery situation with yWriter shut down, it shouldn't be there. Make absolutely certain that yWriter isn't running (check for the yWriter5.exe task in Task Manager if necessary), and then delete the file. If you have a missing or incorrectly named folder, you can correct the problem. Make sure you understand why the corruption happened before you open the project in yWriter, so that you don't just recreate the problem.

5) If there's nothing obviously wrong in the project structure, compare your .yw5 to your .yw5.bak file. The .bak is a copy of the .yw5 from before the last time you opened it. If you've only opened your project once (see DO NOT #1), the .bak may be good, if your project became corrupt when you opened it. Often when a project becomes corrupted, you'll see a .yw5 file that's 2 KB in size (like a new, empty project) and a .bak file that still contains all your project data from before the corruption. If that's the case, you can recover the project simply by renaming, moving, or deleting the corrupt .yw5 file and replacing it with a copy of the good .bak file. Before you open it, you still need to determine why yWriter corrupted it (for example, the 5.1.2.2 beta that created an incompatibility in any .yw5 files it saved), but at least you have your project back. Microsoft lync for mac os.

6) If the .bak file is corrupt, the next step is to find the most recent good .yw5 file in the Autobackups folder. The names of the folders under the Autobackups folder are dates. Start with the most recent. There should be a file in it named (your project name).yw5_Latest.zip. If there isn't, it means you didn't open the project on that day. If not, look for a file named Full Backup of (your project name).zip. If there isn't one of those, either, you'll need to work back through the dated directories until you come to either a yw5_Latest or a Full Backup. Once you find one, drill down through the directory structure in the zip until you reach the .yw5 file.

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Extract it and you should have a good project file again. WARNING: Any changes you made other than scene contents after the time this backup was made will be lost. Contents of new scenes can be recovered by opening their RTF files and copying out the contents, but anything else is lost. This is why that .bak file is so important, because it normally is up to date as of the last time you closed the project.

If it's still corrupted

IF AFTER YOU REPAIR YOUR PROJECT YOU OPEN IT AND FIND IT'S STILL CORRUPTED, either your backup was already corrupted or there's a problem causing it to corrupt when opened. The only known instance of the latter occurs when you open a yWriter project saved with beta 5.1.2.2 in a later version. There are instructions in the discussion archives for correcting that. If your problem is that your last backup was bad, try the one before it. It should always be possible to recover, with the understanding that work done since the last good backup may not be retrievable.