You can even define scenes as “used” or “unused.” If you wish to leave a scene out of an exported project, all you have to do is change it to “unused.” This ability comes in particularly handy if you have scenes you wish to leave out of agent and publisher submissions, but you want to keep those same scenes in your eBook version. Relocating a scene from one chapter to another is, of course, a quick and easy operation in yWriter5. The organizational difficulties he experienced after moving a scene from one chapter to another (and back) are what prompted him to create yWriter5. He had saved the chapters of his first novel as individual files (as I did).
The logic behind organizing a project by scenes is readily apparent from Simon Haynes’ own example. yWriter5 can automatically split your scenes with asterisks, pound signs or your own custom characters when you export the project. When pasting your documents into yWriter, you’ll copy and paste one scene at a time. In our critique group documents, we tend to mark scene changes with asterisks or the like. This means when you create a chapter, you have to create scenes within the chapter before you paste in your text. Chapters in yWriter5 are simply the upper level folders in which scenes reside. In yWriter5, the building blocks of your novel are scenes. After editing the first thirteen chapters of my novel in yWriter5, I have some useful tips. The basics of yWriter5 were covered in Ron Heimbecher’s “ Mapping, Trapping and Zapping” class at the 2011 Colorado Gold conference. If you find this program to be beneficial, you can make a donation or click the links on the donation page to spread the word about his software on Google, Twitter, or Facebook. You can download and use it for free, with no time restrictions or ads.
yWriter5, created by author Simon Haynes. When you have gathered all the pieces and are ready to start assembling your puzzle, it’s time for a specialized editing tool. Standard word processors such as Microsoft Word and Open Office Writer are ideal for composing your pieces. The scenes and chapters that authors write are pieces of a puzzle.
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