Making the Most of WriteItNow 4 - Softcover

Entsminger, Gary Lee; Elliott, Susan Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982156146 ISBN 13: 9780982156148

Publisher: Pinyon Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

WriteItNow 4 is the ideal writing software for novice and experienced writers. "Making the Most of WriteItNow 4" is your key to effective, efficient use of the software.WITH state-of-the-art writing tools (chapter, scene, character, location, event, note, and idea editors, spell checker, and thesaurus), creativity-promoting features (idea generators, graphs, prompts, add-ons), and classy formatting/export options, WriteItNow 4 takes you from first idea to final manuscript with ease.MAKING THE MOST OF WRITEITNOW 4 enables you to optimize your writing experience. You'll quickly learn how to use WriteItNow's essential tools and features. You'll get advice from established authors, while being encouraged to let your personal writing style come out. Step-by-step examples of all major features show you WriteItNow in action.INSTEAD of squandering your time surfing software and learning by trial and error, let Making the Most of WriteItNow 4 be your guide and enhance your writing experience.IN THIS BOOK, you'll learn how to: (1) Write and store complete novels; (2) Edit and rearrange chapters with a Story Board; (3) Create background details and personalities for characters and graph their relationships; (4) Establish reasonable Writing Targets; (5) Fine tune your writing with word counts, readability tools, a crossword capable theasurus, and numerous Web Tools; (6) Create Web, File, and Research links; (7) Use, Create, and Edit Prompts Sets; (8) Generate characters and background notes; (9) Manage reference and submission data; (10) Prepare manuscripts for submission or publication; (11) Navigate WriteItNow menus, dialogs, Tree and Tab views; and (12) Import stories into WriteItNow that you've started in another program.

About this title

From the Author

GARY LEE ENTSMINGER is a naturalist, computer programmer, and poet. He has written a novel, nine programming books, over 100 scientific/technical articles, and computer software that helps scientists understand patterns of biodiversity.

SUSAN ELIZABETH ELLIOTT is a writer, ecologist. and artist. She studied botany and French at Humboldt State University and has a Ph.D. in biology from Dartmouth College. This is her 3rd book.

Review

'Making The Most Of WriteItNow 4' is a new book from Pinyon Publishing. Its aim is to help writers make effective, efficient use of WriteItNow 4. WriteItNow 4 includes extensive help which describes each of the program's functions. This book doesn't duplicate this information. Instead it provides practical tips and help from a writer's perspective which describe how to use the software when writing a book.

The book has 112 large pages, each clearly laid out with extensive diagrams...

The book is split into three main sections: "WriteItNow Essentials", "Create & Develop A Story" and "Exporting & Tips".New writers will find the first section particularly useful, especially the chapter describing essential tasks. Every writer knows that developing a story is hard and this is where the main part of the book concentrates. For example, Chapter 3 "Begin Your Story" has a very clear section helping writers get organized.The final section has tips, keyboard short-cuts and information on exporting.

Anyone who has bought WriteItNow 4 will find this book a great help. Newcomers will find it very instructive and even experienced users will still find plenty of interest. --Ravenshead Services, May 2010

Edition details

• Publisher: Pinyon Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0982156146
• ISBN 13: 9780982156148
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112