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• - Web store for writers and creative professionals.
  
• - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A writer-friendly program that retain all your story writing in one place. Keeping your thoughts free and organized as you develop your story.
  
• - A personal online workspace for writers to develop and track both creative and business efforts and goals.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Shows how to write dialogue, whether comic or dramatic. Gives techniques, and examples.
  
• - Oral histories, life stories, family histories written and preserved using a word processor. Creates a family heirloom document.
  
• - Software to aid in generating new ideas. Ideal for inventors, teachers, writers, students or anyone with an active, creative mind searching for new ideas. Built-in dictionary-thesaurus.
  
• - Software to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel.
  
• - For the professional writer.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts.
  
• - Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program.
  
• - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck.
  
• - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
  
• - A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Free online text counting, metric and currency editing and invoicing web application.
  
• - Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers.
  
• - Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting.
  
• - Story Bones - assists in constructing a story. Provides a framework for developing the plot, builds character profiles, scene details and reporting. [Windows]
  
• - Medical spell check software for MS Word and Corel WordPerfect. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version.
  
• - 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.
  
• - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software.
  
• - The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools.
  
• - Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.
  
• - From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Newsletter software. Create a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues and automates uploading to your site.
  
• - A free application that manages and formats eZines and email newsletters.
  
• - Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
  
• - 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 of StyleWriter 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.
  
• - Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria.
  
• - A smart word processor that makes organizing text a breeze. Create sections in the lefthand frame, enter the text in the full-size page area on the right. Navigate through large documents by inserting named bookmarks via the utilities menu.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Find words and make anagrams with this powerful thesaurus/ dictionary software.
  
• - Idea-generating tools and techniques for business and creative writers.
  
• - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software.
  
• - Plots Unlimited, software program that helps fiction writers generate solidly constructed story plots and outlines.
  
• - Provides several different views allowing the writer to organize and study his work from the perspective of plot, character, and other customizable settings.
  
• - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac software application. From Epigraphics.
  
• - Freeware word processor. It has features specifically designed for writers of novels, short stories, articles, poetry, plays and screenplays.
  
• - Writing tools for amateurs and professionals.
  
• - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Tracks 250 characteristics of bestselling novels to define a model of what readers desire. Corresponding aspects of your manuscript are matched to this paradigm or a specific work.
  
• - Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups.
  
• - Screenplay outlining program that duplicates the popular index card system on your PC. From Ashley Software.
  
• - Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats.
  
• - Automated manuscript management software for DOS.