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Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers.

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

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.

Search engine to locate duplicated materials on the Internet.

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.

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

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.