yWriter Comprehensive Help File

This document was recovered from the lost yWriter google sites page, and is still a work in progress

SCHEDULING YOUR WORK: How do I?

? create a work timeline/schedule for outlining scenes?

A modern novel contains between 80 000 ? 125 000 words at about 250 words per page, as much as 40 'scenes? and many more 'beats? depending on your definitions. You could create a chapter called 'Time line? and then create a scene for each day of writing. THIS DEADLINE SECTION NEEDS MORE WORK Project>Project settings

? establish my daily word count target

Fore a very clear explanation go to http://sites.google.com/site/yWritersj/q/extra-tools

? know how many words have been written?

At the bottom of the scene editor page you get the following information: Chapter title (number): Words in all scenes; Number of words in this scene
RTF number

? track my daily word count so I know how many words I've written each session?

At the bottom left of the main screen you can see the total number of words in your novel and the total number of words added that day;
At the bottom of each scene window, you can find out how many words you have written for that scene.
If you really want to track it properly, at the end of each session put the total word count in a spreadsheet. Then you can calculate the words added in each session, average them if you like, make pretty graphs, or whatever suits your fancy.