[Hitch]

Originally Posted by lordmax

Thanks, really, for your response





Yes, this is my first problem
The workflow works, no doubt, but's too much complex and dispersive.

So my ask for help in this thread

I've used ywriter and found it a little hard to use.
And now I've more and more need for a multi device software, I'm always more often outside home and in need to work with smartphone and tablet (sometimes not mine) so software like ywriter, scrivener (that I can't understand why someone want to use), writer's café and so on became a problem with they're proprietary files type.

libreoffice doesn't exists for mobile.
office online is not meant for book, no way. It can be used yes, and I use it obviously, but save in html it's a kinde of horror's film

At now the only thing I found usefull is a markdown txt file imported and exported in libreoffice (the only plug in found for office doesn't work well and doesn't work online). When it's time I convert the file in an epub with writer2epub (that's really good) and adjuste in Sigil for final version.

I will give another chance to ywriter for timeline.

thanks

FYI, YWriter is available for Android and iOS, too.

The thing with YWriter is like all software that does a LOT--it looks intimidating and not immediately intuitive. There's nothing really "hard to use" about it; it's actually pretty dead simple--it can be as powerful or simple as YOU want.

If you just want to write scenes, great--write scenes. (I find the ability to "think" and organize in scenes or, for my non-fiction writing, sections, just GREAT.) You want timelines? In the Scene popups (you click the scene and the main "scene" panel pops up), you can set the Day/hour/minute that the scene begins, and how long it lasts. Do that for each scene, and it automatically calculates, over the narrative, the timeline FOR you. I simply love that.

If you follow Swain's method, (Action/reaction), you can set Goal, Conflict and Outcome for Action Scenes, and Reaction, Dilemma and Choice, for Reaction scenes. You can set your scene as plot or subplot; you can format blocks or lines of text as COMMENTS, so that you can note them whilst working--but not see them in final exported content.

And as I said, on the other hand, hell, you could just slog through your scenes, and not use ANY of that. (Although, the timeline obviously won't work if you don't tell it who is in what scenes, and the start time and duration of each.)

Honestly...I've seen software that really "does it all," like Power Structure, but even it doesn't do everything that Ywriter does. Of course, Ywriter was created BY an actual writer...so, that explains a lot of it.

HTH.

Hitch