WriteItNow 4

by WriteItNow

Product Features

• Write, organize, and store complete novels
• Word count, spell checker, thesaurus, readability, submissions tracker, targets
• Generate names, ideas, timelines, characters, and character relationships
• Visualize layout with the Story Board
• Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Mac OSX

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.2 x 5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• ASIN: B002PRIT0O
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 16, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #81 in Software > Education & Reference

Product Description

WriteItNow is the ideal writing software for NOVICE AND EXPERIENCED WRITERS of fiction and nonfiction. The software is compatible with Windows 7, XP, Vista, and Mac OSX. With abundant personalized options, WriteItNow has perfected the art of allowing the writer to CUSTOMIZE the interface to fit his or her writing needs. ORGANIZATION is key in WriteItNow. You can: (1) Drag scenes, chapters, events, and ideas to new locations; (2) View character relationships in web diagrams; (3) View story events in a sleek timeline; (4) Visualize layout with a flexible Story Board; and (5) Keep track of manuscript submissions.

Writers using WriteItNow STAY MOTIVATED with writing prompts, writing targets, character and name generators, and places to store ideas. EDIT your story with WriteItNow's state of the art word count, spell checker, thesaurus, and readability assessment. Use EXPORT options to produce a neatly custom formatted manuscript. Keep your document BACKED UP with automatic saves. With WriteItNow, you eliminate the organizational hassles associated with writing in a traditional word processor. WriteItNow lets your creativity soar!

Fawn Germer (Bestselling Author): "I've finally found the software that sorts out the chaos in my brain."

J.R. Lankford (Novelist): "WriteItNow will enhance, rather than interfere with, the growth of a writer's instincts and skills."

Robb Lightfoot (Lecturer): "I intend to recommend WriteItNow to ALL my writing students."

Jules Carlysle (Political Humorist): "I wrote my first book in Microsoft Word and it was an organizational nightmare. Now I've got everything in WriteItNow, research notes and all and I'm a much happier person."

Top Ten Reviews ranked WriteItNow #1 among the seven leading writing software programs. "Great character and story development combined with unique organizing capabilities."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best value in novel-writing software, January 11, 2010

By 

Robert Bidinotto "Robert" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WriteItNow 4 (CD-ROM)

I've been working for a long time to develop a fresh new thriller series. But I've also been at wit's end over the overwhelming cache of research and background materials for the first novel I've been writing, using Microsoft Word.

In desperation to make faster progress, I've spent several days comparing the benefits and features of a score of the most popular and highly rated creative-writing software packages. My conclusion?

For the host of impressive, comprehensive features and benefits it offers writers, I think "WriteItNow" is simply the best value on the market.

Yes, there are a number of useful creative-writing programs, and they'll all help you organize and get your story down on paper. But if you're a typical writer, and on a shoestring budget, I assume that you want to get the most for your money: a program that delivers a host of useful tools, can conform to the way you write and work -- but at the cheapest price.

Well, then, "WriteItNow" is probably for you.

A worthy competitor, which provides a dazzling array of features and benefits to structure and organize your story, is a program called "Power Structure." However, that impressive program costs three times as much. Or you might consider "WriteWayPro," another excellent novel-writing program that costs exactly the same as "WriteItNow." But while "WriteWayPro" provides many fine features for structuring and organizing your novel, including a graphic storyboard, "WriteItNow" has all of that, too -- PLUS:

* an ingenious story timeline, automatically generated from your plot events

* charts and "Mind Maps," to help you graphically visualize character relationships

* a host of creativity generators, which can help you get past "writer's block" to produce fresh ideas, character names (from a vast database), and even character personality types (based on three different "archetype" systems, including Myers-Briggs and Joseph Campbell); and

*a database of historical period details.

That last is unique to this software program, and useful for anyone writing historical or period fiction. "WriteItNow" incorporates a database of hundreds of details about major events in society, culture, and politics, classified by historical periods. You can instantly access and drop these details into your story to add authentic background and color to your tale.

I can't begin to imagine how much more that great writers could have produced, if only they had had access to this easily affordable, extraordinarily helpful software technology. And if the sheer, daunting organizational tasks of writing a novel have deterred you from starting or finishing your own story, perhaps "WriteItNow" may be the key to unlocking your creative potential, and joining their ranks.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Authoring Software, November 21, 2009

By 

P. Keefe "mediaXpert" (Under the sea.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WriteItNow 4 (CD-ROM)

I've used all the major writing products on the market and none of them even come close. WriteItNow allows you to keep a novel bible that is easy to use and extremely comprehensive. Each chapter can be broken down into scenes and characters, events, and other items can be linked to your text for easy reference. I would never have been able to write a full-length novel without it. Also, the company is very good at responding to new feature requests and bug fixes.

No other program will get you from start to finish and then allow you to track your agent/publisher submissions as easily as WriteItNow. Plus, it's really less than half the price of its competition, a no-brainer.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long-term Fan, September 23, 2009

By 

Anna Van der Castle - See all my reviews

This review is from: WriteItNow 4 (CD-ROM)

I've used this program (mainly for short story writing) for years. I love the latest version (4), particularly the storyboard feature, which makes it easy to visualize and reorganize scenes and chapters. The writing targets feature is great for keeping you motivated, and I also use the name generator a lot, to come up with authentic-sounding characters.

These are just three of the many tools in WriteItNow, but it is the flexibility of the software that makes it a winner for me.