Free Programs to help the Newer Writer's...

[sadangel]

Okay. Here are a few of the programs. ALL are FREE! Most of us can't afford some of the much better programs. These can help to get you organized. They were designed by an author who also does this in his spare time. Worth checking out. I've been using yWriter5 for a few days and already find it invaluable to me.

PS: If you all know of one that you think is helpful to writers, please post them. I'm going for the free ones because I know that many new writers in particular cannot afford the really, really good ones. I'm going to include one's that have a trial time, like Liquid Story Binder. It has 30 free uses. It's not overly expensive and the usage time is not consecutive 30 days. It's actual 30 uses. I'll add the link later.

yWriter 5

it's a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. It does help you keep track of your work, leaving your mind free to create.

Sonar3

Sonar is a manuscript submission tracking program, and I wrote it because I was going nuts keeping track of short story submissions. This program tells me which market has each story, whether a story has been sold or rejected and which stories are gathering dust instead of earning their keep. If you decide to use it, you will be able to view a list of all your stories and then filter them in various ways (e.g. only show stories which are available to send out). You can add markets, stories and submissions

yEdit2

Last year, like every year, I used yWriter on my PC to keep all the bits and pieces of my Nano project together, and I bashed out my daily word count on the laptop. Unlike previous years where I wrote in Word or OpenOffice, this time I used a new tool called yEdit, which has a countdown word counter. (You put in 1700 as the starting count and start hammering out the prose until you see '0') I found it easy to set it up with 500 words and then type as quick as possible until I'd done them all. Music on the headphones helped, and Nano 2007 was the easiest I've ever done.

Edit to add this one: (Thanks Thee)

Open Office

 

[arielsgoddess]

Great threads, SadAngel

Thank you for the post...I hate surfing for useful things--it's always nice when someone makes such threads

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks, Angel.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

yWrite is great, have used it since version 2 now on version 5. Wrote 2 ebooks, now on sale, with it.

Currently have four more in progress. I love this program.

 

[JackLuis]

Sweeeet! I downloaded the yWriter and think is will be the tool to finish someof my more ambitious projects!

sadangle-

 

[kromen]

Oooh, I love presents. Thanks a bunch.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm using Open Office right now. Sorry, no link.

 

[sadangel]

I'm using Open Office right now. Sorry, no link.

Open Office
I have this too. I use it when I would have used Notepad or Wordpad.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Another yWriter fan here. Used it for NaNoWriMo three years now. Expect it will be four.

Normally I just use Notepad++ Tabbed easy replacement for notepad. I add the GNU Aspell spellchecker libraries and the Notepad++ spellchecker plugin. All free, stable as can be, and very powerful.

 

[Gusset_Gourmet]

yWrite is an outstanding tool! Downloaded it yesterday and really getting into it today.

Hat held way high to Simon Haynes.

 

[Saucyminx]

thanks Angel!