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SOFTWARE

Ad Writing: Hitting Your Mark

Freeware ad creation program. Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, WinZip.

The Art of TV Writing

Scroll down to "Script Formatting Software" and you can download a free Word for Windows template as a zip file.

Celtx

Celtx is Pre-Production software for film, video, theatre, and animation. Available for: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux. Downloads.

START YOUR STORY. Use the Celtx Scene Details and Character Background forms to create dynamic story lines. Add sound files, pictures and video clips to help create a media rich Outline.

WRITE AWAY. Celtx has a full industry standard screenplay editor that includes all of the features writers need to keep their fingers moving, like intuitive formatting, text auto-complete, pagination, script styles, CAPS selection, scene management, spellchecker, embedded notes, find and replace, PDF generation and other export options. Celtx also supports writing plain text documents so you can write a poem, music lyrics, or your complete Novel.

SO YOU CAN PRODUCE YOUR PROJECT. Complete a media rich breakdown of your project, tagging key items like props, and actors and special effects with notes and pictures and even sound files to help give shape to your Story. Use the built in Calendar and Reports features to keep your Project organized and to help keep track of any production requirements by scene or character or dialogue or action or any number of other ways that Celtx makes possible.

WHILE YOU COLLABORATE WITH TEAM MEMBERS. Celtx has a secure, built in Collaboration feature that lets you share your entire Project scripts, breakdown files, budgets, schedules, location forms etc. with team members. Use the Celtx Collaboration feature to help keep track of their progress and to maintain a common vision among your team.

Cut N' Mix

Cut N' Mix is a freeware four-track text re-assembler to be used as a tool for creative writers. It breaks plain text files down into word fragments and then re-assembles them randomly. You can have up to four different text files open at the same time. The audio mixer analogy is used to provide control over the degree to which each track's word pool appears in the output file. Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

E-zine Publisher's Secret Handbook

A free ebook that helps the Online marketer discover the secrets of effective and profitable e-zine publishing. Learn the basics to the advance strategies of electronic publishing. Requirements: Windows 3.x/95/98/Me.

Film Files

Includes links to a number of free screenwriting templates.

Final Draft

Download a free demo of this screenwriting program.

Free First Steps Writing Course

A free program that helps you learn the basics of creative writing. Requirements: Windows (all).

Literary Machine 2000

Literary Machine 2000 (free) gives you a place to put all of those pieces of information that float around on your desk, and helps you organize all of those random thoughts that pop into your mind throughout the day. This program can be used as an author's outlining and word processing tool, a personal information manager, and as a dictionary or thesaurus. Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT, 32MB RAM.

Magic Letters

A free program that helps you learn how to write effective advertising copy for your webpage. Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, WinZip, Internet Explorer 4.0.

Movie Magic Screenwriter

Download a free demo of this screenwriting program.

Pages2Stage

Download a free demo of this screenwriting program.

QuickPlot: Organize and develop stories quickly and intuitively. - ZDNet Downloads

A free program that helps you organize and develop stories quickly and intuitively. Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

RoughDraft

RoughDraft is a donationware word processor for PCs. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for writers of novels, short stories, articles, poetry, plays and screenplays. It's designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use.

Some of RoughDraft's highlights are:

Comprehensive text and paragraph formatting options.
Importing of files in Word 6.0, Word 97 and HTML formats.
Side panel - making common operations quicker and more convenient.
Up to 100 files open at the same time.
Spellchecking (in British or American English) of the whole text or of individual words, plus a custom dictionary so you can add your own words.
Dictionary and thesaurus facility (provided by Anthony Lewis' WordWeb program, which has to be installed separately; it's not required to run RoughDraft, but strongly recommended).
Automatic insertion of user-defined words: for character names or commonly used words.
Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs.
Special modes for screenplay writers and playwrights which make formatting easy.
Instant backup to a floppy disk -- a convenient way to make sure you don't lose your work.
Saves files in the popular Rich Text Format (RTF), meaning they can be opened in just about any other word processor.
Can create HTML files of your work for publishing on the web.
Can automatically generate cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts.
Font styles for quicker formatting.
Shortcut keys for just about everything.
Comprehensive help system.
Free

RoughDraft is not designed to compete with major commercial word processors. If you need features such as tables, graphics, indexes, outline numbering, cross-references or footnotes, you'll have to look elsewhere. If you want a no-nonsense writing tool, RoughDraft may provide what you need.

The Sandbaggers

S.A.M.M. (Sandbaggers' Automated Manuscript Manager for DOS and Windows) was designed to help with some of the "housekeeping" chores that writers face. You can store information about your manuscripts -- when you submitted them, to whom, and their response -- for easy retrieval and reporting. All of the information in S.A.M.M. is easily searchable. The results of those searches (along with everything else in S.A.M.M.) can be printed. And it's free.

ScreenTalk Software Store

A place to purchase ScreenTalk screenwriting software and obtain free templates.

Screenwriting Software Introduction

Reviews and selected links and files for screenwriting with conventional word processors.

Screenwriting Software and Writing Links

Links to free and commercial screenwriting software, along with writing links and references.

Script Maker - Microsoft Word Screenwriting Template

Script Maker is a Microsoft Word screenplay writing template that helps format scripts to Hollywood standards. Script Maker works with Word 2000, Word 2001, Word 2002 Script Maker might also work with older versions of Microsoft Word.

ScriptMaker

ScriptMaker is a tool for script-writers and directors. It allows you to develop your script as well as format it properly, by integrating the process of story development with script writing. Story-planning is done using "virtual index-cards." ScriptMaker knows which parts of your script are linked with which index-cards, so if you alter the order of the cards the corresponding parts of the script get swapped around too. The descriptive version of the script is kept automatically up-to-date in step with the shooting script; because of the way ScriptMaker stores "2 scripts in 1." Trialware version. Downloads as a ZIP file.

ScriptMaker

A freeware program for authoring screenplays for film. Index-card feature. Maintains outline and detailed synopsis text, which is used to navigate the script using a treeview. Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Scriptware

Download a free demo of this screenwriting program.

SLang

SLang is a story-creation tool, primarily of interest to writers. SLang stands for "Story-Language". It is a story-creation tool, similar to an index-card tool but much more sophisticated. It allows you to break your story down into "events," each of which will have a block of text describing the event. Freeware. Downloads as a ZIP file.

Sonar

A free program that helps you track your short story submissions. Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

Sophocles Screenwriting Software

Sophocles is a new screenplay software program that emphasizes the writing process. While other script writing software puts the focus on margins and page breaks, Sophocles was conceptualized from the start as a story creation tool for screenwriters. By allowing you to easily navigate and manipulate your story elements, Sophocles helps you craft a tighter, smoother flowing screenplay. (Windows version only.)

StarOffice

Download StarOffice 5.2, Sun Microsystems' free multi-platform office suite that includes a word processing program.

StoryBoardHC

StoryBoardQK© is a print-based QuarkXpress template. It's quite simple but the grunt work is done for you.

Storyboard Tools

Storyboard Tools is an organizational tool, primarily of interest to directors. Images from various sources may be used to build up an entire storyboard project on the computer screen. Storyboard Tools stores text along with the images. Once a project is complete this text can be used to automatically generate tables of information, which can be used when filming. In addition, a web page can be generated from the project, at the click of a button. Storyboard Tools has its own drawing tool with specialized features for storyboarding. A "visualizer" program lets you view images in sequence, and play around with a number of editing effects including fades and dissolves. Shareware. Downloads as a ZIP file.

Treepad: PIM, outline text editor, database

Free intuitive database program, outline text editor and Information Manager.

Word Templates and Macros for Fiction Writers by Vanessa Grant

Free downloadable macros and templates for novelists, short story writers, and non-fiction authors. Requirements: Microsoft Word 2, 6, 7, 95, 97, or 2000 (for PCs only).

Write That Down!

Record every detail of your submissions, screenplays, screenwriter, agent, contest, and company contacts and never have to search through thousands of e-mails again.

Writer's Database

A free program that helps you keep track of potential publishers with this database for writers. Requirements: Windows 95/98NT, Visual Basic 6.

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