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SiteSkipper > Arts > Writers_Resources > Software
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» AcroWizard - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered.
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» 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.
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» Avenir - Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X]
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» Biography Software Corporation - The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools.
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» ClipWords - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics.
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» Copyscape - Search engine to locate duplicated materials on the Internet.
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» EaZy Paper - Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats.
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» 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.
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» eMediaAdmin - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
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» 123Ezine - Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites.
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» 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.
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» Great Dialogue Software - Shows how to write dialogue, whether comic or dramatic. Gives techniques, and examples.
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» 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.
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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.
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» Intellectus Enterprises - Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
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» Liquid Story Binder - Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups.
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» Manuscript Studio - Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» Newnovelist - Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel.
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» NoTypos.com - Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» Readability Software Online - Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet.
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» Recipes for Word - Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available.
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» RhymeZone - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» Story Wizard - Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places.
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» Storybase - Provides a dictionary of narrative writing prompts that can be personalized by each user.
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» StyleEase - From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations.
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» Textalyser - An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts.
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» WareFore Analysis - printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows]
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» WordNet-Online - Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences.
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» WordWeb Pro - Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder.
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» The Working Writer - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck.
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» 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.
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» The WritePro Corporation - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software.
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» Writer's Blocks - Assists with the development and organization of written material.
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» The Writers Store - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software.
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» 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.
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» WriteThis - Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria.
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» Writing Help Tools - Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing.
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» WritingLinks.com - A portal of writing software resources, links and information.
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