Writers Cafe v1.28

Writer's Café is a software toolkit for all fiction writers, whether experienced or just starting out. The heart of Writer's Café is StoryLines, a powerful but simple to use story development tool that dramatically accelerates the creation and structuring of your novel or screenplay. Designed by published novelist Harriet Smart, it also includes a notebook, journal, research organiser, inspirational quotations, writing exercises, and a 60-page e-book, "Fiction: The Facts", distilling 20 years of writing experience. Writer's Café is designed to be a playground for the imagination, making writing fiction fun and fulfilling. Writer's Café, a fun-to-use writing environment with notebook, journal, StoryLines drag-and-drop structuring tool, writing quotations, scrapbook and more.

StoryLines Features

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>> Drag and drop cards Arrange your ideas graphically in cards, along as many tracks as you wish >> Enter as much or as little as you like Each card holds a description, plus optional information: time, location, annotation, dialogue, and an image. >> Dialogue highlighting as you type If you're typing a play or screenplay, StoryLines can colour your dialogue, understanding elements such as cues, action, and transitions (Windows only). >> Text import Import existing text, and rapidly create new cards from selected paragraphs. >> Instant reports As soon as you have made an edit, a linear version will be updated in the Report window; you can choose from a selection of report styles, each with its own preview to help you see how it will format your project. >> Outline view You can see an outline tree view to the left of your tracks window, for quick navigation >> File export Export your project in report form to your favourite word processor or screenwriting software, in OpenOffice writer, plain text or HTML format >> Make HTML Help books Export your project to Windows HTML Help format (on Windows) or cross-platform HelpView HTML Help (all platforms). >> Story details StoryLines provides fields for you to fill in important aspects of your story, such as genre, concept, pitch and so on. >> Character profiles Add details about each of your characters with the Character Profiles tool. >> Story locations Describe each of your locations with the Story Locations tool. >> Copy and paste Copy or cut a card or several cards, and paste to the appropriate place in your project. >> Spelling checker Check for typos with the built-in spellchecker, available in a number of languages. >> Pockets Store cards that don't yet have a home in a Pocket, for placing on a storyline later. >> Undo/Redo Undo/redo your major edits, all the way back to where you last saved the project >> Online help Comprehensive online help is supplied, as well as tooltips and context-sensitive help for dialogs. Check out the Quick Tour for a bird's eye view of StoryLines. >> Highly customizable Tailor the way your project looks by changing fonts, colours and even use bitmap tiles for the tracks window and cards; hide windows that you don't need >> Keyboard shortcuts for high-speed editing Use keyboard shortcuts to make editing your projects fast and natural

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Writer's Café Desk Features

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>> Getting Started Guide A friendly 10-page guide to Writer's Café to read on-screen or print out. It's illustrated with screenshots and includes tables of shortcuts for Writer's Café Desk and StoryLines. Print it out, or view it on-screen using Adobe Acrobat. >> Notebook Instantly record your ideas in the ever-present notebook: use as many pages as you want. No time-wasting filename choice is required, unless you wish to have multiple notebooks. >> Journal The journal opens at today's date and like the notebook, is always available for you to record the day's ideas. >> Scrapbook The scrapbook is where you can keep your research and random ideas: notes, pictures, document and web links, and collages. With a collage scrap, you can add coloured shapes with text or images, and connect them with plain or arrowed lines. On Windows, use auto-paste to quickly paste scraps by copying text, graphics or web links twice in succession in any other application. >> Writing Cookies Enjoy a collection of Harriet Smart's favourite writing quotations: one a day, or click to view further random gems. >> Writing Prompts Exercise your writing muscle with writing prompts: you get a random subject and (optionally) a time limit. Paste this into the notebook or journal and get writing. Great for beating block. >> Fiction: The Facts Harriet Smart's distillation of 20 years' writing experience, in an e-book that you can either browse on-screen or print. The chapter titles are: Introduction, Beginnings, What If, Characterisation, Genre, Point of View, Setting, Conflict, Shape and Structure, Troubleshooting Your Story, Getting Published, and Final Thoughts. Click here for more information. >> Bookshelf The Bookshelf allows you to browse Writer's Café manuals and Fiction: The Facts from within Writer's Café desk. >> Slideshow Shows your image and collage scraps in succession, in a window or full-screen. >> Backup Facility The File Manager tool gives you an easy way to back up your precious files, without resorting to an additional tool. Specify File Sets that include all files of a given type, and create a backup with just a few clicks. You can also easily restore files from a backup archive. >> Slideshow Shows your image and collage scraps in succession, in a window or full-screen. >> Café Menu Access to more tools and applications is available via the Café Menu tab. You can add your favourite writing applications here too. >> Forty Thieves Best-selling British novelist Georgette Heyer used to dream up her books while playing patience. We've provided a patience game for you, too. >> A thesaurus at your fingertips The excellent 'Aiksaurus' thesaurus is bundled with Writer's Café, and you can quickly invoke it from the Help menu or using a shortcut. >> Customizable Specify notebook and journal font styles and sizes; and brighten up window backgrounds with the supplied textures, or your own. >> Also on the CD-ROM The CD-ROM also contains OpenOffice.org for Windows, Linux and Mac, and Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading and printing Writer's Café documentation. OpenOffice.org is a capable open-source office suite, compatible with StoryLines.

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