'After 20 years in the IT business I've gained a deep appreciation for programs that set out to do a specific job, then do it better than anything else. The essence of genius beyond sweat is simplicity. Right now, I'm looking at 842 pages, no wrestling with 'feature glut', just so many headaches gone. In the last six months, I have a finished work.

'After a long struggle with Word, I downloaded yWriter & yBook, and I just want to say 'thanks' for a set of tools that think the way writers do.

Thanks a million for creating something so user friendly, and then for offering it to us gratis.' J.L.

I must have shaken my head in wondrous disbelief five times today, as I used this software - 'What?! I can just drag the characters and locations into the scene?!' 'Wow - from what I just typed, that detailed story board just created itself?!' Love it, love it. I ended the day with a highly organized project, a definite sense of where I'm going and an enormous amount of confidence that I can see this book through to its end. After trying a few other writing programs that just didn't click with me, I installed yWriter5 and started organizing my myriad ideas into concrete chapters and scenes. 'Wow!! This program is AMAZING! I started the day overwhelmed, with a million notes in different places on my laptop and iPad, a million ideas in my head and no idea about how to corral it all into a cogent manuscript. When it comes to editing, simply drag and drop chapters, scenes, characters and locations to re-organise as you see fit!' The 12 Best Writing Apps It also tracks your changes by saving daily log files.

' becomes VERY useful as your word count starts to climb higher and higher.

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