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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..

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. 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 - Search engine to locate duplicated materials on the Internet..

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..

English Language Online Tools - Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary..

123Ezine - Creates a newsletter template, any newsletter design or format, text or web. Creates and manages back issues together with uploading to web sites..

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..

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].

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..

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..

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..

Readability Software Online - Web based readability software that compares your writing with how often the words appear in the Inernet..

Recipes for Word - Software for the fiction, nonfiction and student/ scholars. Grammatical style checker, literary agent database, are available..

RhymeZone - Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus..

The Sandbaggers - Automated manuscript management software for DOS..

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. Also offers stock charting software, an ebook reader, a mp3 and ogg player, text to speech, and stock market data..

Story Wizard - Writing software feeds the imaginative mind with ideas for plot lines, characters and places..

Storybase - Provides a dictionary of narrative writing prompts that can be personalized by each user..

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..

WareFore Analysis - printMSS - manuscript processing software for the professional writer. [Windows].

WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment - Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment..

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..

WordNet-Online - Free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences..

WordWeb Pro - Thesaurus and dictionary for Windows with word and anagram finder..

The Working Writer - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck..

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..

The WritePro Corporation - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software..

Writer's Blocks - Assists with the development and organization of written material..

Writer's Companion - Brainstorm, organize, edit and publish your ideas in one program..

The Writers Store - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software..

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..

WritingLinks.com - A portal of writing software resources, links and information..

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ODP - Open Directory Project

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