Tools and Resources for Writing

help for writers writing Software, articles, and other help for writers  If you are looking for software to help with your writing projects, look at our writing tools.  If you like to read about writing, see the articles and ebooks in Writing Books, Writing eBooks, Writing Articles, Marketing Your Writings, Copywriting, Writing Tips, Writing Screenplays, and Your Writings - Stories, Essays, Poetry.
 

Book Writer™ – Word Processing for Writers

Are you writing a book?   Are you a student?   Are you researching?
If you are writing a book, or you have chapters, notes, papers, or any writings spread across multiple files, you can use Book Writer™ to free your creative mind from your computer.

Version 5.50:  Now you can keep records on People, Places, Events, and Notes with your writings!

help for writers writing
  • Combine related files into a project for easy management.
  • Merge individual chapters into a single manuscript for submissions.
  • Open all files in a project with a single click.
  • Move from file to file by clicking notebook tabs.
  • Find any word or phrase in all project files, opened or not.
  • Copy or move all files at once.
  • Zip all files in a project for backup or emailing.
  • Think of the right word easily with Active Thesaurus™.
  • Eliminate needless business functions from your word editor.

If you are a writer—not a business person or secretary—try this word processor made for writers!

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Selected Articles and Stories

My Favorite Expert Advice on Writing the Stories of Our Lives, Gleaned From My Favorite Books on the Subject
This outline is adapted from a handout I give to my lifewriting students.  The points made here apply to writing in general as well as to writing our life stories in particular.  I.  Why should we write?
The Importance of A Website Copywriter
A website copywriter has several jobs.  They will need to provide the information, the words, and the persuasive text that is used within any site that is visited.  For many individuals, this means that they will need to know the products, understand the site owner’s needs, and to be able to draw customers into the site by providing interesting and informative information.
Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones!
Years ago at a presentation at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, I promised an audience to teach them to conquer this beast once and for all.  Later, another instructor approached me and said “why did you say that to those people?
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author: Tip 1
Any good work of fiction has a basic set of components.  Without these various elements, your book will be unsatisfying, or worse, unreadable.  Many new authors make the mistake of copying or 'aping' an existing writer's style, or a popular genre - this can result in formulaic or cliched stories that probably won't be easy to sell to agents and publishers.
Organizing Your Data to Write Better Copy
Last quarter I talked about interviewing / gathering data.  So now you’ve got several thousand words of notes, hopefully digitally recorded.  What comes next?  GETTING ORGANIZEDI suggested organizing your interview questions into 4 groups.
How To Handle Writer's Block
Do you ever sit down to write and feel as if you're plodding through mud to get even a few words down on paper?  Do you wonder if you'll ever come up with a useful idea again?  You may be suffering from writer's block.
Ten Tips on Writing and Creativity
1.  Don't think.  Creating a story or book has little to do with the intellect or language when we first begin.  Our best ideas will emerge as a spark or image.  Like dreams, they will make little sense.
Using Research to find Writing Topics
Through research you can find topics, subjects and ‘seeds’ for stories.  Pick five different topics that interest you, and research them on the Internet, or through your local library.  These topics can be virtually anything, as long as they interest you, and information is available.
 
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