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