#Feedback on writeitnow 5 how to
#Feedback on writeitnow 5 software

file searching: Ctrl+F quickly brings you to what you want to find.version control: Google Docs has version control allowing you to view previous versions.Very useful to manage and review edits in one log. comments: MS word and Google Docs allow to input comments which can be resolved.outline: an outline at the left (or right) side helps with navigation and can be clicked to easily switch between chapters and see how the chapters are linearly organized.Alternatively, use pen and paper to take notes and log difficulties.

#Feedback on writeitnow 5 software

You could use project management or note taking software (e.g. my-book-edit-20180201.doc or my-book-edit-ch07.docĬonsidering you would need about two months to edit everything you should treat it as a project.

less messy: only need one file which has all chapters.

On the other you may get distracted faster.

less effort: you don't have to open multiple files, searching and looking back is faster.

I would use one document to re-edit all chapters, all 502 pages. That said I am rewriting a draft and seeing how having the whole thing in one file goes and if that helps me deal with the cons I ran into.

#Feedback on writeitnow 5 how to

(still trying to sort that through and wondering how to change what ended up a series of short stories into an actual novel.) Some chapters I seldom bothered to look at so ended up weaker.

At least for me it got to be very long (again dealing with short stories of varying length) and I had like 20+ 'chapter' files with no idea how long the total piece is or how to fit it in a cohesive unit.

(this came to be a huge con for me when reviewing, reading over the whole thing.) Instead of reading what would be a novel I was reading what turned into a series of short stories.

Because you're only looking at a single chapter, you may be tempted to write each as if they are their own separate story or run into continuity problems if you're not looking at the whole thing as a single unit.

(The 2nd one was what drove me into trying this method, back in the days there were those 3' floppy disks and one of them corrupted my word document and left computer code and formatting inconsistencies scattered throughout the whole thing.) If the file gets corrupted or something happens, it will only affect that chapter and not the whole thing.It is easier to find your place and manage when editing.

You manage smaller files and are not dealing with the entire story.This may not answer your question, but it is something I have done.