Software Writers Resources

Software Writers Resources

Computer software geared to helping writers keep track of submissions and write stories and articles. Look for other kinds of software in Computers/Software.

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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.
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.
AcroWizard - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered.
The Sandbaggers - Automated manuscript management software for DOS.
WriteExpress Corporation - Writing tools for amateurs and 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.
WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment - Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment.
Character Pro for Writers 2.0 - A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available.
Copyscape - Search engine to locate duplicated materials on the Internet.
eMediaAdmin - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
The Working Writer - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck.
Manuscript Studio - Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.
Writer's Companion - Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program.
Textalyser - An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts.
Spacejock Software - Free software designed to help authors put together the snippets, outlines, fragments and chapters that go into a finished novel. Also offers stock charting software, an ebook reader, a mp3 and ogg player, text to speech, and stock market data.
Writer's Blocks - Assists with the development and organization of written material.
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.
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.
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.
Story Wizard - Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places.
NoTypos.com - Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version.
Readability Software Online - Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet.
MasterFreelancer - Web store for writers and creative professionals.
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.
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.
English Language Online Tools - Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary.
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.
WordNet-Online - Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences.
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.
Storybase - Provides a dictionary of narrative writing prompts that can be personalized by each user.
Anthemion Software Home - Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers.
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.
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.
WordWeb Pro - Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder.
StyleEase - From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations.
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.
The Writers Store - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software.
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.
WritingLinks.com - A portal of writing software resources, links and information.
Liquid Story Binder - Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups.
Recipes for Word - Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available.
The WritePro Corporation - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software.
ClipWords - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics.
Avenir - Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X]
StoryCraft Writer's Software - Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting.
WriteThis - Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria.
Ars Lexis Software - Expandable and adaptable dictionary and thesaurus designed for use on Palm-platform handheld devices. The base dictionary has 122,000 words defined. The programs are memory-efficient.
WareFore Analysis - printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows]
EaZy Paper - Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats.
Intellectus Enterprises - Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
RhymeZone - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
123Ezine - Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites.
Newnovelist - Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel.
Writing Help Tools - Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing.

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