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Like Sarah, I was reluctant to try writing software, stymied as to how it could help me. For example, if you don’t want to work in English, you can switch over to everything from Spanish and Hebrew to Russian or Chinese. It also has bunches of little bonus tools (discussed further below) that you won’t find with a lot of other software.
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And by free I mean FREE: it costs nothing and has no ads, popups, unwanted toolbars, or other annoyances to interfere with your work. YWriter was developed by an author/programmer, and it’s a PC-based freeware alternative to Scrivener (that will, according to the creator, “also run on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X using Wine”). Of course, there’s other software out there, so today I’m going to share my experiences with another option- yWriter. In December, QueryTracker Blogger Sarah Pinneo talked about why she uses the Scrivener writing software.