Writer's Resources - Downloads
Since I posted a list of writer's resources (that I find useful/am using) over at the Hamilton, Ontario NaNo forum, I thought I would share it here as well. All are free and easy-to-use. Note, most of these features lists/descriptions are from their respective websites. It's abit long, sorry.


YWRITER download

Features:
Organise your novel using a 'project'.
Add files to the project, each containing a chapter.
Add a summary to each file, showing the scenes in each chapter.
Print out summary cards, showing the structure of your novel.
Display the word count for every file in the project, along with a total.
Saves a log file every day, showing words per file and the total. (Tracks your progress)
Saves automatic backups at user-specified intervals.
Allows multiple scenes within chapters
Viewpoint character, goal, conflict and outcome fields for each scene.
Storyboard view, a visual layout of your work.
Re-order scenes within chapters.
Move scenes from one chapter to another.
Automatic chapter renumbering.


Languages included:

Castellano (Spanish) Deutsch (German) Français (French) Galego Enxebre (Galician) Italiano (Italian) Nederlands (Netherlands) Ðóññêèé


*TIP While there is no formatting option in Ywriter, if you would like to make words italiac, put an underscore around it

ex. Oh my _gosh_!

That way, when you export your file into another word processor, you can just search and replace words with _ on either end ;p

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ROUGHDRAFT download

RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, 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.

RoughDraft has the following features:

* Special modes for plays and screenplays which make formatting easy.
* A side panel that makes common operations quicker and more convenient.
* Instant backup of all open files to the device of your choice - a very convenient way to make sure you don't lose your work.
* Automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts.
* Automatic insertion of user-defined words - for character names or commonly used words.
* Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs.
* Importing of files in Word 6.0, Word 97 and HTML formats.
* Up to 100 files open at the same time.
* Spellchecking. British and American English dictionaries are included. Dictionaries for many other languages can be downloaded.
* Live spellchecking that underlines misspelled words in red as you type.
* A custom spellchecking dictionary so you can add your own words.
* A 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).
* Comprehensive text and paragraph formatting options.
* Saving of files in the popular Rich Text Format (RTF), meaning they can be opened in just about any other word processor.
* Full find and replace, including the ability to list all the matches in the current file or in a number of files.
* Font styles for quicker formatting.

RoughDraft is not designed to compete with major commercial word processors and does not provide the following features:

* A full page view for editing (although it does have a full page view for print previewing).
* Indexes and tables of contents.
* Tables.
* Pictures.
* Footnotes.
* A grammar checker (eeurch!)

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GOOGLE NOTEBOOK download

Google Notebook was created to give you an online "notebook" where you can organize all your research, add personal notes to it, and share it with others. Google Notebook surfs along quietly with you as you browse, letting you clip and annotate whatever text, images, and links that help answer your question, all without ever leaving the webpage you're on.

You can download a Firefox plugin (Don't know what Firefox is? Get with the times and DL it! MSIE is ruining your browsing experience!) for Google Notebook which keeps it at your fingertips (mousetip?) at all times. Easy shmeasy.

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WRITELY download


With Writely, you can:

* Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.
* Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.
* Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.
* View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.

Plus, since its online, you can:

* Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.
* Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
* Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
* Post your documents to your blog.




ps; now is the greatest time for me to of gotten sick. I HAD NANO PLANS TO MAKE DAMN YOU COLD GERMS!