YWriter

If you are like me, you prefer to flesh out your first drafts without any sort of planning, overhead, or even sense of direction about which way your novel will turn the next day. For that, I prefer to use Microsoft Word or some comparable word processor because it allows me to proceed with insane pace and reckless writing.

But for the editing process, there is naturally a good bit of overhead and hindsight planning that needs to take place, and YWriter is the best software I have used to handle that minutia. It has detailed scene breakdowns, POV tracking, timelines, storyboarding, and a whole ton of other features.

Spacejock Software - YWriter

If you have older versions of Microsoft Excel

Thanks to one of the forum posters over at NaNoWriMo site (Penhaligon29), I got this handy link - if you want to use some of my spreadsheets but I've jumped over to Excel 2007 and you're still on 2003. Hopefully this works for you. If it doesn't, I will try to do "Save As" for you on some of the stuff once I've got the bugs worked out.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

Novel Workplan Spreadsheet

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From quick word count calculations all the way through final editing process, this is a year-long planning tool to take you all the way through editing. I'll most likely be making some changes myself as time goes on, but it's a bit of an outgrowth of the old word count schedule spreadsheets. This sheet has a writing count, but then walks through various stages of a revision process with the schedule and helps to keep you on track with weekday or every day scheduling capabilities, etc. Hope you enjoy it. As always, leave any comments you have if you have questions or find bugs. Format is Microsoft Excel 2007 .xlsx file.

Bell peppers!!!

Some of the blooms falling off now and leaving small peppers behind. Here they come!!!

Harvest - Tomato

Got our one tomato off the vine last night. It's a little bit green still, but good enough to finish ripening on the counter instead of outside where the bugs can get to it.