WriteItNow - Creative Writing Software Here's a piece of software that I came across and a very comprehensive and useful program it is too. There's an impressive list of features including: 150,000 word thesaurus, spell-checker and word count. Each character can have their own profile, each location and even objects that are pertinent to the story can have theirs which you can edit and enlarge as the plot develops and are always handy when you want to check details. (Does she have blue eyes or grey?) It will produce charts showing relationships between characters and a timeline of events. You can generate links within the story between characters and events. Imagine you're describing the heroine of your story and mention her childhood home. A link between the two can be set up. You can then link to her husband and any other character to show how they all relate to one another. Version 5. Ravenshead, the publishers, have now brought out Version 5 with a much improved graphical interface and lots of added goodies. There is more on that than I have room for here, but to find out more on these Click Here There is so much more to this program than I have room for here, but you can download a free demo version to try it out yourself. You've seriously got to take a look.  Click here

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The Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear The app highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red. Adverbs are helpfully shown in blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead. Phrases in green  have been marked to show passive voice. You can format your text with the toolbar. Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button to compose something new. You can utilize a shorter word in place of a purple  one. Mouse over it for hints. Check it out HERE

Can you really write a novel in just a month? Well, after putting it to the test, my personal answer is 'Yes' if you stick with it. I purchased this eBook at the beginning of July a few years ago. The author, Dan Strauss, who has written a number of books for writers, gives a plan on how to tackle, what to many, would seem an unlikely task. He writes in an engaging and upbeat way and lays down exactly what you should be doing from Day 1 to the completion of your book. His premise is that by the end of a month you can have your book ready to send to a publisher. I had a children's book in my mind which I wanted to get down on paper, and by following his plan and his methods I set about writing it. The plan, and all his other tips and shortcuts, were easy to follow, and I actually enjoyed the process which before had seemed onerous to say the least. And the result? After starting at the beginning of July the book was done by the end of the month! But... Was my book ready for a publisher at this point? Well, actually, no. Why? Because I had not stuck entirely to the time schedule Dan Strauss sets out. Lost some Brownie points there, I know, but still, I kept going and did all the revision, corrections and so on. This took me another two months so that by the end of September my book was ready to send out. Being a children's book it was shorter than your average blockbuster too, weighing in at just over 54,000 words.