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If you are sick of Word/Pages for writing in, and you are using Mac OSX then I highly recommend a programme called Scrivener. You can download a 30day trial from Literature and Latte
for free, and the programme costs about NZ$50. It is ann excellent programme, and I don't know how I lived without it.
If you are using a PC then there are other programmes available that do the same job, I used one called Aviner for a little while which was ok, and I think it was duel platform (But no promises).
I think the website above points you to alternatives if you're a PC user.
Anywho, hope someone finds this useful.
RedFox :)

I have heard great things about Scrivener. It makes me want to get a Mac. I use a combo of yWriter and SuperNoteCard on the PC at the moment.

No Excuses. Just Write.
SoCNoC - Untitled Chick Lit
Freeing the Flame - 30,065/40,000 words rewritten for May

I have to agree with the wonderfulness of Scrivener. I just discovered it myself a few weeks back, downloaded the trial, used it for a while and it then became the first piece of software I've ever bought. (and that's after 2 years of owning my own computer)

Heh, I use a plain old text editor. Seeing as I use one of them for most of every day, I find I can do what I want in it so don't really need any extra bits and pieces.

Besides, I can always program my editor to do what I want it to :-)

Andrew Chilton - http://kapiti.geek.nz/
SoCNoC 2008 - Unknown and Untitled

Scrivener looks awesome... but I don't have a Mac, *sigh* Oh well...

I usually end up writing my NaNo on plain text editor, it keeps it simple and helps me to turn off the inner eddy. I DO have yWriter on my computer, but it's a bit too twiddly for me to really write with, so I haven't really used it at all so far.

Mostly, I just write on Word and hope all my scenes aren't a mess =)

I love ywriter 4.
I used to find the extra bits on it annoying but now I am using them I am finding I can track things so much more easier.
I have tried several other programs and most just had to many things to play with and I did not write. I have stuck with ywriter and it has paid off for me. Just like everything it takes time to adjust.
Main thing I like about ywriter is I dont get in the loop of changing font or colour or constantly checking the word count. Which I do in Word.
But whatever works best go with!

My idea of hell is being trapped in a room with no books!

I keep meaning to try some of these programmes and just never seem to get around to it. I just use word and it works for me, as long as I can see my word count I am happy lol, it used to slow me down always having to check but with the new version its right there in the corner so I always know how I am going.

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I've just used Word...but found recently, while doing NaNoWriMo when my novel, which I was writing as just one document, got to about 40,000 words that the Spellcheck just gave up. Writing a fantasy novel meant a lot of made-up names and places which come up as mispelt and I didn't bother adding them to the dictionary or correcting the spellcheck. So when I reached the 40k (ish)mark, Spellcheck couldn't cope with all those misspelled words and stopped checking or underlining any misspelled words.

Anyone else, experienced this?

I decided to give ywriter a go and it is cool. I normally just use word and a separate file for characters etc but this is far more organised.
About the spell checker in word. I correct as I go and it doesnt overload. The trick is to only a a few underlined words each chapter. You can always choose to ignore some misspelled words. You can also save odd placenames in a special dictionary and select that for the novel. Hope this helps.

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NaNo winner 2006, 2007
SocNoc winner 2007,
WWWwace 2007, 2008!!!
Easter challenge winner 2007
Body count: 1 Institute heads, 4 professors, 2 postdocs, 2 PhD students, 2 sequencing technicians and numerous bad guys...
Oh I wish I could put that on my CV.

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I've had that as well ricobarnez. If you add the words to the dictionary it's fine. I hit this at about 70K on a fantasy novel I was working on last year.

I'm sure I'm not using half the cool features in yWriter, but it's working well for me anyway.

No Excuses. Just Write.
SoCNoC - Untitled Chick Lit
Freeing the Flame - 30,065/40,000 words rewritten for May