Using a new writer's tool

This year YT will be trying out some new tools and techniques to stay organized and on track. One tool that looks like a sure thing is yWriter3, novel writing software created by a real novelist. It's free, oriented toward scenes and characters, and reasonably compatible with other word processors. It has several nice features that look like they were inspired by NaNoWriMo: progress toward daily word count, storyboards, places for scene summaries and goal-conflict-resolution notes.

YT will have more to say about yWriter as the month progresses.

Novel Blurb 2007

Since this has been posted on the NaNoWriMo Michigan regional forum, why not here? Here are the vague mumblings of the previous post, crafted into a polished elevator pitch. GTC is starting to take shape.

GENRE: Satire

WORKING TITLE: Grand Theft Cambridge

BLURB: During the dot-com boom of the 1990s, new companies using the Internet to get big fast were followed by companies that did just enough to go through the motions of success. Carter Hayes and his handpicked MBA buddies at E-Style have a foolproof business plan: do a little work to make their software "shopping assistant" real enough to get noticed by big retailers, then ride their stock options to riches when some big, old-line company opens its wallet. What they don't realize is that all the other E-Stylers have their own extra plans, from Suresh and Ganesh, their tame MIT engineers, to Leticia Tamara, the admin who takes a lot of notes, to financial angel Silvio, who runs his venture capital business out of a strip club.

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Okay, YT admits this is cribbed somewhat from The Producers, Microserfs and all of those "new ways of doing business" books from the era that turned out to be completely wrong. But, hey, anything this author can dream up won't be nearly as bizarre as stuff that actually happened.