Open Directory - Arts: Writers Resources: Software
See also: - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered. - Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers. - A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available. - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics. - Search engine to locate duplicated materials on the Internet. - Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats. - 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. - Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary. - 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. - Shows how to write dialogue, whether comic or dramatic. Gives techniques, and examples. - 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. - Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only] - Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups. - Web store for writers and creative professionals. - 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. - Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel. - Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version. - Word processing package designed for writers. It emphasises features used by creative writers, while ignoring the business oriented functionality of the larger word processors. - Provides several different views allowing the writer to organize and study his work from the perspective of plot, character, and other customizable settings. - Minimalistic and clean full screen word processor. Features auto-correction, spell checker, live text statistics and notes. - Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet. - Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available. - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. - 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. - 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. - Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places. - Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting. - Provides a dictionary of narrative writing prompts that can be personalized by each user. - Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations, - An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts. - Automated manuscript management software for DOS. - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck. - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software. - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software. - Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment. - 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. - Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences. - Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder. - Writing tools for amateurs and professionals. - 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. - Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria. - Assists with the development and organization of written material. - Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program. - Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing. - A portal of writing software resources, links and information. - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
