It’s a shame more people didn’t take advantage of this software so it could continue to be updated and offered.
WriteWay will be available for free for only a while until the developers stop paying for the web site, then I may offer it myself until updates to operating systems make it obsolete.
While there are parts of WriteWay that are clunky, and it has one ugly 1990’s style interface – WriteWay encourages you to keep writing in a way Scrivener doesn’t. Now that it’s free, I suggest you look into it as a tool for story entry, then export it over to Scrivener for editing.
Why do I suggest this? WriteWay has a big circle on the task bar that shows you the percentage of completeness you’re currently at. Scrivener has the one for word count for the day – WriteWay has one for how complete you are in the BOOK.
I know that the Scrivener progress indicator shows the book progress as a color bar that changes – but there’s something about seeing “4%” change to “4.1%” then “4.2%” AS YOU WRITE. You begin to write to the indicator. “4.3%”, “4.4%”, “4.5%” as you write. You end up writing a LOT MORE than you planned to!
I’ll say this – I want to write in Scrivener. It’s the ultimate writing tool. But switching to WriteWay and just plugging away produces very satisfying results.
It’s a PAIN to reorganize a story in WriteWay – certainly Scrivener does it better. A possibility could be to enter the words into WriteWay, then copy and paste into Scrivener at the end of the writing day.
I wouldn’t say that WriteWay is a viable replacement for Scrivener. And with all development ceased on it, it is eventually doomed to the land of “non operation” eventually (I will say I own a program I bought for Windows 95, and it still works in Windows 8.1).
But if you get a story idea and you can see the whole thing in your mind and want to get the whole 85,000 words DOWN in as short a time as possible, because you’ve got another project starting in 5 weeks…
Try WriteWay.
