See also:
- 123Ezine - Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites.
- AcroWizard - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered.
- Anthemion Software Home - Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers.
- 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.
- Avenir - Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X]
- Biography Software Corporation - The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools.
- Character Pro for Writers 2.0 - A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available.
- ClipWords - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac application. From Epigraphics.
- 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.
- EaZy Paper - Formats your new and existing papers in the Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style formats.
- 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.
- eMediaAdmin - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
- 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.
- GRiM Software's Musings - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intellectus Enterprises - Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
- LeftMargin Pro - Designed to allow a person to write a novel - from concept to publication - within a single application.
- Liquid Story Binder - Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups.
- Manuscript Studio - Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.
- MasterFreelancer - Web store for writers and creative 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.
- 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.
- Newnovelist - Breaks down the process of writing into manageable chunks, to help experienced and novice writers complete a novel.
- NoTypos.com - Medical spell checker for Microsoft Word. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version.
- 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.
- Projx Online - Free online text counting, metric and currency editing and invoicing web application.
- RhymeZone - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
- RoughDraft - Freeware word processor. It has features specifically designed for writers of novels, short stories, articles, poetry, plays and screenplays.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Story Wizard - Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places.
- Storybase - Provides a dictionary of narrative situations.
- StoryCraft Writer's Software - Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting.
- StyleEase - From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations.
- Textalyser - An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts.
- The Sandbaggers - Automated manuscript management software for DOS.
- The Working Writer - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck.
- The WritePro Corporation - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software.
- The Writers Store - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software.
- WareFore Analysis - printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows]
- WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment - Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - Find words and make anagrams with this powerful thesaurus/ dictionary software.
- WordWeb Pro - Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder.
- WriteExpress Corporation - Writing tools for amateurs and professionals.
- 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.
- Writely - Free web word processor which lets you share and collaborate your work online.
- Writer's Blocks - Screenplay outlining program that duplicates the popular index card system on your PC. From Ashley Software.
- Writer's Companion - Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program.
- 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.
- WriteThis - Small freeware tool for writers. Generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria.
- Writing Help Tools - Reviews of writing tools on the Net for letter writing, resume writing, business writing, and general writing.
- Z-Write - 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.
- Zentalis - Makers of Pot Boiler, software to assist authors in planning and writing novels. Windows, Mac or Linux.