| 123Ezine: Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites. |
| AcroWizard: AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered. |
| Anthemion Software Home: Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers. |
| 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. |
| Avenir: Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X] |
| Biography Software Corporation: The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools. |
| Character Pro for Writers 2.0: A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available. |
| ClipWords: Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics. |
| 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. |
| EaZy Paper: Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats. |
| 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. |
| eMediaAdmin: Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates. |
| English Language Online Tools: Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary. |
| 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. |
| Great Dialogue Software: Shows how to write dialogue, whether comic or dramatic. Gives techniques, and examples. |
| GRiM Software's Musings: A tip-of-the-day style program that presents the user with inspirational quotes about writing, as well as creative writing exercises to awaken the muse within. Can be downloaded from this site. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Intellectus Enterprises: Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only] |
| LeftMargin Pro: Designed to allow a person to write a novel - from concept to publication - within a single application. |
| Liquid Story Binder: Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups. |
| Manuscript Studio: Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents. |
| MasterFreelancer: Web store for writers and creative professionals. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Newnovelist: Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel. |
| NoTypos.com: Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Projx Online: Free online text counting, metric and currency editing and invoicing web application. |
| Readability Software Online: Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet. |
| Recipes for Word: Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available. |
| RhymeZone: Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Story Wizard: Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places. |
| Storybase: Provides a dictionary of narrative situations. |
| StoryCraft Writer's Software: Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting. |
| StyleEase: From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations. |
| Textalyser: An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts. |
| The Sandbaggers: Automated manuscript management software for DOS. |
| The Working Writer: Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck. |
| The WritePro Corporation: Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software. |
| The Writers Store: For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software. |
| WareFore Analysis: printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows] |
| WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment: Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| WordMaestro: Thesaurus, English dictionary, anagram solver and word finder for Windows. |
| WordNet-Online: Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences. |
| WordWeb Pro: Find words and make anagrams with this powerful thesaurus/ dictionary software. |
| WordWeb Pro: Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder. |
| WriteExpress Corporation: Writing tools for amateurs and professionals. |
| 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. |
| Writer's Blocks: Assists with the development and organization of written material. |
| Writer's Companion: Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program. |
| 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. |
| WriteThis: Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria. |
| Writing Help Tools: Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing. |
| WritingLinks.com: A portal of writing software resources, links and information. |
| Zentalis: Makers of Pot Boiler, software to assist authors in planning and writing novels. Windows, Mac or Linux. |
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