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Power Writer Software
by ScriptPerfection Enterprises Inc.
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Description
Based on Power Structure's award-winning
development tools, Power Writer focuses more heavily on the actual manuscript,
allowing you to write anything from a short story all the way up to a full
novel in one powerful, easy-to-use program.
And its integrated Story
Development & Outline Tools finally lets your writing proceed as one
continuous act of creation from first idea through to final manuscript.
Outlines, notes, ideas, character arcs, and much more are always in synch with
the actual text regardless as to how much you edit or rewrite... and they're
right at your fingertips with a simple click of the mouse, or can just as
easily be hidden so you can focus purely on your prose.
Power
Writer™ is the first of a new breed of program for the creative writer,
one which takes you from first idea through to final manuscript as one
continuous act of creation.™
It erases the line between story
development and story writing by fully integrating the outlining and
development tools directly into the word processor. What this means to you is
that your outline and story development data always remains up to date and
useful, even through the most grueling rewrite.
The
Convergence of Organization and Creativity™
Power
Writer's unique work environment allows you to jump from outline to manuscript,
from research to character development then back to your manuscript again all
without ever losing a beat.
Get rid of all those scribbled notes,
discarded outlines and mislaid half-written scenes. With Power Writer
everything is all in one place, right at your fingertips, but at the same time
out of your way so that it never intrudes on the flow of your writing.
Power Writer™ Interface
Power
Writer is designed to work for you, not the other way around. A standard,
familiar interface means you can jump in and be comfortable almost immediately,
while the power under the hood lets you really make the program yours: with
draggable toolbars, user customizable keystrokes, a powerful built-in Macro
language and much more.
Power Writer's normal Word Processing screen
probably looks very much like the one you're used to seeing. However, hidden on
the left and bottom of the main screen are the Outline View and Story Tools
frames respectively, which can be slid out with a simple mouse click or
control-key press. [
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IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE that you can
work in Power Writer with any combination of the three frames shown in the
animation above open (even all three simultaneously); they all can be opened or
closed with a single mouse click or control-key press, and they are all
resizable to fit your needs and the capabilities of your monitor.
How does Power Writer™ differ from
Microsoft® Word?
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Simplicity of use -- although
extremely powerful, Power Writer is not trying to be absolutely
everything to everyone as are most modern word processors such as
Microsoft® Word. This means that you spend your time
writing, not fighting with it.
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Designed to handle anything from a
short story to a multi-hundred page novel with all your notes, research, online
references and more all in one document.
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Integrated Outlining that
dynamically stays in synch with your document as you write and edit gives you
the ability to step back and view your story from a structural perspective,
allowing you to easily "see the forest for the trees."
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Integrated Story Development
Tools means that Power Writer gives you more than top-notch word
processing power; it gives you the tools to help you use your own skills as a
writer to keep your story in focus and on-track. Story Tools data is
always synchronized to the manuscript, so that at any place in your work you
can ask yourself insightful questions about how that moment is advancing
your story, teaching your characters, or solving expositional issues. Or
use them to develop bigger themes, Act and Character arcs or track an unlimited
number of Must Accomplish Items.
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Fully editable Outline View means
that you can restructure your story in the outline view and the
manuscript will automatically be updated to conform to the revised
order.
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Three kinds of Notes cover all
your research/rewriting needs: Global Notes for basic story research,
Embedded Notes for on-screen reminders, and Referenced Notes
which are notes that are referenced to a specific piece of text and which
dynamically pop-up the text of the note when you position your cursor over
it!
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On-screen Dictionary-style Word
Definitions are built into the integrated Thesaurus, and the spell
check offers optional real-time auto typo correction and onscreen underlining
of misspelled words.
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Integrated Character Name Bank
with thousands of character names sorted by male, female and family
names.
How does Power Writer™
differ from Power Structure™?
Although they both share
a common philosophy of giving you, the writer, the tools to better use your own
skills as a writer to create the best work you have in you, they do have a
difference in focus. Power Structure gives you most tools and views for the
deepest structural analysis, while Power Writer gives you far superior word
processing and manuscript handling capabilities. [
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Is it hard
to learn?
Absolutely not! As you can see from the graphic below,
the main interface was designed to look very much like the Windows word
processor you are probably already using. If you can type in that, you'll find
it even easier to type in Power Writer. [
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Don't confuse ease-of-use with
stripped-down, though. It's called Power Writer for a reason, giving you all
the pertinent word processing features you could ever need. Sure, it doesn't do
mail merges or spread sheets or fancy tables... but it also won't ever change
your font or layout simply because you backspaced one character too many!
 Power Writer's Outline
View, although probably less familiar, is also drop-dead simple to use.
Normally hidden out of sight, the outline view can be slid out simply by
clicking on the drag bar on the far left edge of the screen.
- Add New Items simply by
clicking on the buttons labeled NEW... and then typing in your new
text. It will be added both here and in the main word
processing (manuscript) frame automatically!
- Reorder Items with a simple
drag'n'drop -- and the corresponding text is automatically reordered for you in
the manuscript frame!
- Navigate to any Item in the
manuscript frame simply by double-clicking on it in the Outline
View.
Like the Outline View, Power Writer's Story
Tools remain conveniently out of sight until you want them. Then just click on
the bottom drag bar and it slides upwards, ready for action. With six easily
accessible arenas (General Story, Acts, Chapters, etc.), it is a snap to keep
all your development data in easy reach. [
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But I already have a
lot of writing in another program!
Great, bring it on over into
Power Writer! Power Writer supports cut & paste from any other well-behaved
Windows program, in addition to being able to read and write RTF (Rich Text
Format) files created by virtually any program, including all the popular word
processors such as Microsoft® Word, Corel® WordPerfect and all major
Script Writing packages such as Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ and Final
Draft®.
I'm pretty set in my ways; am I going to have to learn
to work the way the guys who designed it do?
Absolutely not. Power
Writer is designed to be completely flexible; regardless as to if you're the
type of writer who starts with the most detailed research and outline possible
before ever setting ink to page, or if you start by writing full-out the final
scene then working backwards... or if you're anywhere in between.
Power
Writer totally supports you working your way... but lets you do it in a work
environment like you've always dreamed of.
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Power Writer Software
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