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Storylines and Writer's Cafe: software for writers.

A creative writing tool designed to help writers create great story characters. Newsletter available.

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.

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.

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.

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.