You can instantly access and drop these details into your story to add authentic background and color to your tale. "WriteItNow" incorporates a database of hundreds of details about major events in society, culture, and politics, classified by historical periods. That last is unique to this software program, and useful for anyone writing historical or period fiction. 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. 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. ![]() Well, then, "WriteItNow" is probably for you. 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. Yes, there are a number of useful creative-writing programs, and they'll all help you organize and get your story down on paper. 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. 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. ![]() 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. I'll add a few more comments to the end: - I've been working for a long time to develop a fresh new thriller series. Everything I said here is still applicable to the new version 5 - and even more so. ![]() I wrote the following review in 2011 for WriteItNow version 4.
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