Writing Software

Designed for Writers - Helpers & Alternatives - Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office

Designed for Writers

Writing Software

Liquid Story Binder is a word processor designed for authors, poets, and screenwriters and includes a document tracking system.
http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com

Final Draft includes all the features that screenwriters require.
http://www.finaldraft.com

Wizards for Word is a writer's software tool suite for Microsoft Word.
http://www.recipes4word.com

WriteItNow novel writing software for PCs and Macs.
http://www.ravensheadservices.com

Writer's Café is a set of power tools for all fiction writers.
http://www.writerscafe.co.uk

Writers Software Supercenter includes a variety of writing software products.
http://www.writersupercenter.com

Submission Tracking Software

The Working Writer manuscript tracking software would be of real benefit to any writer who regularly tries to place a lot of freelance work.
http://dolphinsoftware.bc.ca/software/writers

Idea Tracker offers an easy, customizable and effective method to organize, sort, filter, and print your ideas, thoughts and/or notes.
http://www.intellectusenterprises.com/IdeaTracker.html

Agent Wizard generates simultaneous submission packages to multiple literary agents.
http://www.recipes4word.com

Write Again! is an affordable and powerful writing management and submission tracking software for professional writers and freelancers.
http://www.write-again.com

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Helpers & Alternatives

Word & Name Databases

MuseNamesis probably the largest database of names and meanings you'll find commercially available.
http://musecreations.ca/names.htm

WordMaestro is an all-in-one thesaurus, English dictionary, word finder and anagram solver for Windows with over 1,800,000 related words and phrases.
http://www.wordmaestro.net

Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office

OpenOffice.org is a free office suite that is compatible with all other major office suites, including Microsoft Office. This open-source product is free to download, use, and distribute.
http://www.openoffice.org

"Using Open Office for Novel Writing" is a blog entry that may help you evaluate using OpenOffice.org for writing.
OpenOffice.org Templates include book, screenwriting and invoices to name a few.
OpenOffice.org Extensions add functionality or slight tweaks.
Writer's Tools is a set of utilities designed to help OpenOffice.org users back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, keep tabs on document statistics and more.

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
http://www.abisource.com

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