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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.
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
http://www.personalauthor.com/800/indexns.cfm
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
http://www.editorsoftware.com/
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
http://www.reedmedia.net/software/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
http://www.online-utility.org/english/index.jsp
Readability tests: detect frequently used words, complicated vocabulary.
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
http://www.intellectusenterprises.com/
Idea Tracker, for customizing, organizing, sorting, filtering ideas, thoughts and notes. Free trial available. [Windows only]
Liquid Story Binder
http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com
Designed for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and screenwriters. Features include: spellchecking, thesaurus, document indexing, checklists, image gallery, notes, multiple backups.
Manuscript Studio
http://www.manuscriptstudio.com
Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.
McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme
http://www.bryantmcgill.com/Free_Rhyming_Dictionary/
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.