I’ve discovered yet another cool piece of free writing software. My brother mentioned it to me the other day, and it sounded familiar. I think I’ve heard of it before. It’s called yWriter, and it’s an organizational tool for writing novels.
I downloaded yWriter a couple of days ago and started playing around with it, importing some scenes from one of my half-finished novels (seems like they’ve been half-finished for a long time now). The sheer number of features and tools in yWriter is nothing short of astonishing. I can’t believe this thing is free software.
Basically, you create chapters, and within those chapters you create scenes. You can add as much or as little information for each chapter and scene as you want. You can write a summary (or description) for each chapter, and also for each scene within each chapter. Read the rest of this entry »
Catching the Wave (Google Wave, that is…)
November 25, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Software, Technology, Writing by faltarego | 2 comments
(Don't skim. Read the whole post. There's a surprise later.)
Just over a month ago, my friend Asheyna sent me an invite to the preview of Google Wave. Since then, I've been going to the site nearly every day, playing with features, catching up on some of the public waves I'm following, and generally just checking things out.
First off, Google Wave is cool.
No doubt about it. It's like a discussion groups forum with document editing and formatting features and bit of instant messaging.
But it's much more than that. Read the rest of this entry »
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