Writing Software

Hi all I thought I would tell you about some cool software you might try to help you when you are writing. All of these are free, and don't have any expiration date. They are not shareware, or trialware. All of these programs are either freeware or open source.

1. Scribus-- an excellant opensource desktop publishing program. I use it for several things. One of the things I like to use it for is to format content for webpages.
I do my formatting in Scribus and then I save it as a PDF file then I use another program called "Some PDF to HTML converter" to convert it to an HTML file before I post it online

http://www.scribus.net/

2. Some PDF to HTML- a great program that converts PDF files into HTML files.
It works great and accurately preserves the formatting of layouts

http://www.somepdf.com/some-pdf-to-html-converter.html

3. Open Office- why pay hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Office ,when you can have a wonderful Office suite for free

http://www.openoffice.org/

4. FreeMind- an awesome open source program to use to explore ideas with mind maps. If you dont know what mind maps are go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map to get Freemind go here

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

5. WikiPad- a nice program that's like a Notepad on steroids- it's still light and easy to use too. The feature that I love about it the most is that it allows you to link your pieces of writing together like webpages on the web are. That makes it easy to organize information. Wikipad is also very good at helping you make outlines

http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/

6. Ywriter- I dont use this one, but I've read good reviews on it. It is a word processor designed for writers who like to write stories. It does automatic backups, has text to speech capability, word counts and statistics and much more. I haven't tried but it might be useful for managing large collections of poems too.

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

7. Mobysaurus Thesaurus- I just found this one and it is an AMAZING thesaurus.
It's an offline program, so you dont have to be connected to the web, and it contains over 2,500,000 synonyms.

http://download.cnet.com/Mobysaurus-Thesaurus/3000-2279_4-10573589.html

8.Rough Draft- This is a program similar to Ywriter but it is designed for general creative writing projects and not just stories.


9. ReadingRater- great program for finging out the reading level of a given piece of text. This is useful if you like to write for children, or want to make sure that your writing isn't hard to understand

http://softwarebybrian.com/cms/content/view/15/2/

10 Q10- A no thrills word processor that let's you concentrate on writing creatively ,and doesn't have alot of junk to get in the way of you and your beloved piece of writing.

http://baara.com/q10/

download the portable apps one that is 896 kb
I've yet to find another one on that page that installs

Well that's it for now, talk to you later.