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.