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

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.

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.

Create outlines, tracks characters, allows editing, revision and annotation of sections of text, and tracks submissions. [Mac OS X]

The personal author system combines biography and genealogy research tools along with biography writing and publishing tools.

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.

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.

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.

Software for publishing online magazines and newspapers. Creates article webpages, table of contents and chronological archive webpages using customizable templates.

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.

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.

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.

Technology for writers publishing their own work or presenting a finished manuscript to publishers, periodicals and agents.

Web store for writers and creative professionals.

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.

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.