Arts - Writers Resources

Arts - Writers Resources - Software

Idea Fisher - Idea-generating tools and techniques for business and creative writers.
Ashleywilde Publishers - Plots Unlimited, software program that helps fiction writers generate solidly constructed story plots and outlines.
StoryCraft Writer's Software - Story development software. Also online writer's courses in novel and screenwriting.
eZine Assistant - A free application that manages and formats eZines and email newsletters.
The WritePro Corporation - Free professional advice and resources for writers, fiction and nonfiction. Free creative writing tutorial software.
WriteExpress Corporation - Writing tools for amateurs and professionals.
Character Naming Software - Includes first and last names. With extensive search capabilities such as starts with, number of syllables, origins, and themes for first names.
Perfect Keyboard - Type paragraphs, quotes, phone numbers, names, addresses, credit card numbers, URLs or email addresses with one keystroke.
The Working Writer - Software that tracks the business of freelance writing from query letter to paycheck.
eMediaAdmin - Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.
Clip Words - Search, edit, combine, or cut and paste entries and move them into any Windows or Mac software application. From Epigraphics.
Character Pro for Writers 2.0 - A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available.
Xerotron - 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.
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 of StyleWriter software.
Biography Software Corporation - The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools.
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.
Writer's Blocks - Screenplay outlining program that duplicates the popular index card system on your PC. From Ashley Software.
StyleEase - From Guilford Publications. Formats text and pops in references in MLA style. For term papers, journal articles, theses, and dissertations.
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.
Autobiography Software Program - Oral histories, life stories, family histories written and preserved using a word processor. Creates a family heirloom document.
AcroWizard - AcroWizard can create a database and table of acronyms from your document in about 10 seconds. Free trial version offered.
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.
NoTypos.com - Medical spell check software for MS Word and Corel WordPerfect. For transcription, notes, reports, and anything medical. Free trial version.
Writer's Software Ranked - Listing different types of writer's software.
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.
MasterFreelancer - Web store for writers and creative professionals.
The Sandbaggers - Automated manuscript management software for DOS.
FlashLog - A web-based application that automatically publishes, designs, and distributes customized opt-in newsletters, ezines, web content, and targeted email marketing campaigns for writers, publishers and original content owners.
WordWeb Pro - Find words and make anagrams with this powerful thesaurus/ dictionary software.
RoughDraft - Freeware word processor. It has features specifically designed for writers of novels, short stories, articles, poetry, plays and screenplays.
The Writers Store - For screenwriting software, creative writing, TV movie script and screenplay production software.
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.
BrainForest - Flexible text-based Palm OS program for brainstorming, outlining and structuring information and ideas. Can also be used for "to-do's"; has an "Action" mode which allows the user to specify what percentage of a particular task has been completed. One important feature: This program can sync with a desktop version in either Windows or Mac.
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.
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.
Final Draft/AV - A formatted word processor specifically intended for writing video scripts -- whether feature programming, advertisements, or documentaries. The basic format is two columns: audio in one panel and video in the other.
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.
Active Publisher - A self publishing software package that makes it easy to design and publish your own book on the web or desktop publishing.
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.
WriteItNow - Record all your story characters, events and locations. Display charts. Generate characters and ideas.
Intellectus Enterprises - Products for organizing ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
Spacejock Software - Developer of many programs appropriate for writers. Windows95 or above.
How to Use MS Word Grammar Check - Ron Scheer explains how to customize this error prone function into something partly useful.
Do Grammar Checkers Work? - Critical report on the effectiveness of Grammatik V based on samples of essays by EFL students. Paper presented at EUROCALL.
Machina Sapiens - Software company specializing in linguistic engineering. The Bilingual Grammar Checker, El Corector, CorText, programs for French, English, and Spanish, for Linux and Windows.
Verbix - Software for conjugating verbs in modern and extinct languages, including English. Free to use online or pay for the downloadable version.
Computer Grammar Checkers and Teaching ESL Writing - Evaluation of WordPerfect Grammatik for English as a Second Language courses.
Grammarian - Casady and Greene's Macintosh grammar checker program runs in interactive or batch mode, gives statistics, expands or creates contractions.
Grammar Slammer - Grammar reference in Windows Help file format. Shareware.
LexSaurus Software - Spelling, reference, and thesaurus toolkits for multilingual applications. Windows 3.x/95/NT DLLs support 11 languages.
iFinger Electronic Reference - Software for Windows, which provides direct offline access to various commercial dictionaries and reference sources. Demos, detailed product information, online ordering.
WordWeb Developer - WordWeb Developer's COM object allows you to add thesaurus/dictionary functionality to your applications.
Wordz Toolbar - Free, instant, one click access to dictionary and thesaurus definitions and spell checking from a toolbar on your web browser. Free software that contains no adware or spyware. By Socket Software.
As-U-Type - Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 program to correct spelling and expand text on the fly. Trialware from Fanix software.
Sans-Faute - Macintosh grammar and spell-checker for French and English languages. Shareware from BCDL-Hexacom.
Free English Spell Checker - Check your web page or type in text.
The Word Services Suite - Protocol for MacOS and BeOS that allows any application to link to a spelling checker, grammar checker or other text service as if built-in. Listing of many server and client programs using it.
Excalibur - LaTeX aware spelling checker for the Macintosh. Free.
Spellink - Multilingual spell-checker software. Check spelling for English, German, French, Spanish in any Windows application. Dictionary: business, science, humanities, medical and technical.
Spell Checker for Edit Boxes - Checks the spelling of any edit control in almost any application under Windows 3.1/95/98. Dictionaries available in several languages. Free for private use, shareware for businesses. From Michael Quinion Associates.
XDE Spell Checker - XDE's Spell Check Server may be installed on NT IIS, Unix derivatives such as Linux and Solaris web sites, the Java applet client may be used by HTML and dynamic page(s) on multiple browser platforms.
Fornada Software QuickSpell - Windows 95/98/NT desktop spell checking utility. Shareware.
SpellCatcher.com - Casady and Greene's Spell Catcher programs for Windows and Macintosh. Interactive or batch mode, multi-language, English dictionary and thesaurus lookup.
Wintertree Software - Linguistic products for software developers: Sentry spell check engine, ThesDB thesaurus engine, dictionaries, grammar checkers. For MFC, ANSI C/C++, Office, VB, Delphi, Java, Web, and ASP.
AutoSpell - Multiple spelling checker programs for web masters, Windows users, and Active X developers.
Spellex - Spell checking software for the medical, pharmaceutical, legal, bioscience, dental, and scientific and engineering fields, integrated with Word or WordPerfect.
Spellswell Plus - Works with Macintosh applications that support AppleEvents as if built-in. From Working Software, Inc. HyperCard and BeOS versions available.
SpellCheck.net - Free online spell checker, copy and paste a word or document up to 5000 characters to check and correct it online.
Checking Out Three Freestanding Spell Checkers - Applelinks.com reviews Excalibur, Spellswell Plus, and Spell Catcher for Macintosh, giving 3, 3, and 5 stars respectively.
Aspell Spell Helper - Enter a misspelled word, and the site will consult a dictionary to suggest the correct spelling.
ActivSpell Server Side Spell Checker - Checks the spelling of text boxes on web sites. Spell Check interface purely html/java script, spell checking full server side.
JSpell Spell Checker - Java and HTML spell checker. Works with JSP, ASP, CGI generated web pages as well as oracle forms and java applets. Software designed exclusively for the web.
Alcoda Software - Editors and spell checkers for users and developers, for Windows, Oracle, and InterDev, with multiple language dictionaries, thesaurus and definitions.
XMLmind Spell-Checker - A Java spell-checker engine.
Björn's Online Spellchecker - Provides an online spellchecker for English, German and Latin language.
Darmstadt Technical University - French, German, and British English dictionaries available for download [.tar.gz files].
Dictionaries for Ispell - Dictionaries for Ispell in 17 different languages
Ispell - An interactive spell-checking program for Unix. Dictionaries are available for a large number of European languages.
Norwegian Ispell Dictionary - Background information, instructions, and downloadable .tar file.
Swedish Ispell Dictionary - Installation instructions and .tar archive file.
Russian Ispell Dictionary - Package contains a list of Russian words and an affix file.
Dansk - The concise Danish dictionary.
GNU Aspell - An open source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell.
Final Draft - Screenplay formatting, screenwriting, script development.
Hollywood Screenplay - (formerly Movie Master) includes downloadable demo, online sales.
HollyWord - SideBySide multicolumn scripting software for writers of TV commercials, documentaries. Both format scripts automatically. Simon Skill Systems.
Screenplay Outliner - Includes online tutorials.
SceneWriter - Screenplay formatting tool with a scene-by-scene approach to screenwriting.
Script Werx - Customizes Microsoft Word into a tool kit for writing scripts in several different versions of both screenplay and multi-column video formats.
Script Buddy - A free web-based screenwriting program.
Screenplay Systems, Inc - Movie Magic and Dramatica Software: story development, screenwriting, scheduling, and budgeting software.
ScreenStyle - Screenwriting software, books, and videos including Final Draft, ScriptThing, Scriptware, and MovieMagic Screenwriter. Free books, magazines, and online articles on writing for the movies.
Sophocles Screenwriting Software - A word processor for writing screenplays and other dramatic scripts. Download the trial version and start writing immediately.
Scriptware - All you need to type your script are your pinkies and the Tab and Enter keys. Full featured word processor with spellcheck and formatting.
Page 2 Stage - An advanced screenwriting word processor (software) for scripts, screenplays, etc. Available in 30 languages.
Dreamascript - Script development software. Screenwriting program with interactive step by step guides, formatter, resources, advice.
Drakkon - Script formatting software allows to store often-used scenes and characters. Program features, demo download, and support documentation.
StoryView - Screenplay outlining program that works directly with the most popular screenwriting software programs available.
SwiftTrack - Submission tracking software for writers from SwiftTech Software.
Write Again - Writing management tool. Helps writers, poets, freelancers and other literary artists manage their projects, markets/contacts, submissions, deadlines and finances.
Acta - An original outlining software written in 1993 for Macintosh computers, now available for free download (Mac only). The site provides interesting background on the program and its uses.
MacFlow/WinFlow - Extremely adaptable and intuitive flowcharting program. Lets you import an existing outline from text directly into diagram mode. Allows for "nested" diagrams, i.e., placing shapes within shapes. Free trial download available.

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