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Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting. www.writerspage.com/ The WritePro Corporation Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software. www.writepro.com/ WriteExpress Corporation Writing tools for amateurs and professionals. www.writeexpress.com/ The Working Writer Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck. dolphinsoftware.bc.ca/software/writers/index.html eMediaAdmin Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates. www.reedmedia.net/software/emediaadmin/ ClipWords Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics. epigraphics.com/ Character Pro for Writers 2.0 A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available. www.characterpro.com Editor Software StyleWriter, the plain English editor. The Electronic Writing Course and an Electronic House Style. Information and advice on writing in plain language plus a free trial. www.editorsoftware.com/ Biography Software Corporation The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools. www.personalauthor.com/800/indexns.cfm WordDog Plain English Editor Searches Word documents for wordy phrases, redundancies, ambiguous words, outworn expressions, formal language, cliches, and suggests crisp, clear plain language alternatives that everyone can understand. www.worddog.com Writer's Blocks Assists with the development and organization of written material. www.writersblocks.com StyleEase From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations. www.styleease.com AcroWizard AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered. www.acrowizard.com/ WordCounter Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use it to find keywords, or just to see what words you overuse. Free to use online, not a download. www.wordcounter.com NoTypos.com Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version. www.notypos.com Self-Publishers Affordable System Explains the home based publishing system which allows everyone to produce their own professional book inexpensively and in any number they want. Sample books on display. geocities.com/cguyspage/ MasterFreelancer Web store for writers and creative professionals. www.masterfreelancer.com The Sandbaggers Automated manuscript management software for DOS. www.sandbaggers.8m.com/dossamm.htm The Writers Store For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software. writersstore.com/ Power Structure Provides several different views allowing the writer to organize and study his work from the perspective of plot, character, and other customizable settings. www.write-brain.com/power_structure_main.htm Willow Tea For and about writers, with book recommendations, software, and suggestions to improve writing. Submissions are accepted, upon approval, for inclusion and representation of good writing. adwt.com Hi-Note Outline and brainstorm on the go. Create notes and subnotes, similar to topics and sub-topics used in other programs, on your Palm Pilot. Easily incorporates graphics as well as text. cyclos.com/hi-note.htm Ars Lexis Software Expandable and adaptable dictionary and thesaurus designed for use on Palm-platform handheld devices. While comprehensive (the base dictionary has 122,000 words defined) the programs are memory-efficient. arslexis.com/ WriteItNow Write and store complete novels. Keeps track of characters, events, locations, and ideas. Provides timeline charts, spell checker and manuscript submission tracker. PC and Macintosh computers. www.ravensheadservices.com/ Intellectus Enterprises Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only] www.intellectusenterprises.com/ Spacejock Software Free software designed to help authors put together the snippets, outlines, fragments and chapters that go into a finished novel. Same site has a freeware submission tracker too. members.iinet.net.au/~simonh/spacejock/ Textalyser An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts. textalyser.net/ WriteThis Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria. www.theprint.dk/writethis.html Manuscript Studio Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents. www.manuscriptstudio.com Writing Help Tools Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing. www.writinghelptools.com 123Ezine Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites. 123ezine.com Newnovelist Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel. www.newnovelist.com EaZy Paper Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats. www.eazypaper.com Great Dialogue Software Shows how to write dialogue, whether comic or dramatic. Gives techniques, and examples. www.greatdialogue.com RhymeZone Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. www.rhymezone.com/ Mindola Software Miss Lonelynotes helps manage writing projects using a simulation of 3x5 note cards. Includes character tracking and plot references. Windows SP/200 and Mac OS X Panther. www.mindola.com/ Anthemion Software Home Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers. www.anthemion.co.uk/ WriterScreen Software A writer-friendly program that retain all your story writing in one place. Keeping your thoughts free and organized as you develop your story. www.digitizedi.com/writerscreen/writerscreen.htm ScholarWord An MS Word integration which facilitates writing in MLA, APA, CBE or Chicago styles, rapidly citing sources, and accurate editing. Download free trial for Mac or PC. scholarword.com/product.htm Liquid Story Binder Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups. www.blackobelisksoftware.com Writer's Companion Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program. www.writerscomp.com/ Projx Online Free online text counting, metric and currency editing and invoicing web application. wc.projxonline.com Avenir Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X] returnself.com/ Copyscape Defend your rights online, fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you. www.copyscape.com/ FictionFixer Service involving software analysis which tracks 250 characteristics of bestselling novels to define a model of what readers desire. Corresponding aspects of one's manuscript are matched to this paradigm or to a specific work. www.fictionfixer.com/ Zentalis Makers of Pot Boiler, software to assist authors in planning and writing novels. Windows, Mac or Linux. www.zentalis.com/ WordWeb Pro Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder. wordweb.info WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment. www.whitesmoke.com/ Story Wizard Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places. www.storywizard.co.uk IdeaMason Assists in the creative and technical aspects of writing, including idea and source management, bibliographical citations in APA, MLA and Chicago, composition organization, and research administration. www.ideamason.com WareFore Analysis printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows] www.warefore.com/ McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme Free software version of this 14-volume authoritative reference work, offering a subset of the publication's entries in order to encourage and popularize poetry. www.bryantmcgill.com/Free_Rhyming_Dictionary/ English Language Online Tools Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary. www.online-utility.org/english/index.jsp WordNet-Online Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences. www.wordnet-online.com/downloads/ Recipes for Word Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available. www.recipes4word.com PageFour Word processing package designed for writers. It emphasises features used by creative writers, while ignoring the business oriented functionality of the larger word processors. www.softwareforwriting.com WordMaestro Thesaurus, English dictionary, anagram solver and word finder for Windows. www.wordmaestro.net Readability Software Online Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet. readability.online-web-software.com WritingLinks.com A portal of writing software resources, links and information. www.writinglinks.com Storybase Provides a dictionary of narrative writing prompts that can be personalized by each user. www.storybase.net/ Other Search by Software
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