What is Writer's Blocks?
Writer's Blocks is a Windows program created to assist you with the development and organization of written material. Screenplays, books, speeches, and research papers are just a few examples of what you can develop with Writers Blocks.

Writers Blocks provides you with text blocks that you can use to develop the structure of your written material.

We all know it is far more effective to organize a document's information before we actually begin to write. But traditional word processing programs that only display information in a linear fashion provide little support to the organization process.

Writer's Blocks unique design - part word processor, part spreadsheet - solves this dilemma. The program manages information in a series of sizable blocks that can be arranged in columns representing separate topics. When compared to traditional word processors, Writer's Blocks allows you to more quickly capture, visually organize, and evaluate far more information, both under a given category (down), and in different categories (across). Whether you write complex documents or just work with large amounts of related text information, Writer's Blocks will revolutionize the way you work!

Enhance Your Productivity
Simply put, a Writer's Block is a container that holds text. Each block can be used to enter an idea, scene, point, etc. Like using electronic note cards, Writers Blocks allows you to easily and efficiently manipulate ideas. Unlike ordinary paper note cards, Writers Blocks lets you easily edit, arrange, re-number, and print your blocks.

Story Development Made Easy
Writer's Blocks will help you develop and organize your story ideas faster than ever before. With Writer's Blocks you enter each scene or story element on a separate Writer's Block. Arranging your blocks with drag and drop ease, you can quickly and easily organize your story into a coherent outline.

Powerful Yet Simple
While Writer's Blocks is powerful, its also very easy to use. Its intuitive and consistent interface means you'll be productive from the start. Whether you're writing a screenplay, novel, article, stage play, speech, or research paper, you'll be more productive with Writers Blocks!

Organize your Story with Ease
Brainstorm in a free form style then organize your story. Develop your story structure by arranging your story elements under user defined column headings. Set Block font and color attributes for each block. Set the column attributes too.

Features to Simplify your Life
Writer's Blocks powerful features such as Auto Arrange let you concentrate on getting your story out of your head and onto the page. Use the AutoCenter feature to pan the currently selected block to the center of the viewing area automatically. Use the Auto Number feature to renumber your story outline every time you rearrange your blocks

The Power Panel
Edit the title and body for each block directly on the block or in the Power Editor. The Power Panel with its Power Editor and Power Tools allows a magnified view of the currently selected block for quick preview or editing, even if the block is not visible in the viewing area.

Flexibility to Fit your Style
View and edit your blocks in either the Block or Outline Modes. Print a "blue print" of your story. Export your story outline to most popular word processors in standard ASCII format.

The Right Tool For the Job
Customize Writer's Blocks to fit your writing style. Set and save default title, font, and color preferences for blocks and columns. Whether you outline by the scene, page, or chapter Writer's Blocks can accommodate your personal style.

New Features in Version 3
Writer’s Blocks was originally designed as a place to start writing. You would create your outline and then export the outline to your word processor where you would complete your project. Writer’s Blocks 3 is now the place to start and finish your project with the addition of a built-in word processor.

New Manuscript Panel is a full-fledged word processor
With the addition of the Manuscript Panel, you can now complete your project with your notes available, all a single program. By selecting the new option to Convert Blocks to Manuscript, your block information is converted to a word processing format. You can then split your screen and see your blocks on the left and your manuscript on the right. There is an adjustable vertical split screen bar that lets you control how big the block and manuscript panels are.

Your manuscript contains Blockmarks that are links to your original blocks. If you like, you can work only in the Manuscript Panel and reference your original block text by double-clicking on the Blockmarked text. Click anywhere on the Blockmark to have your original block pop up in a small text window.

The Manuscript Panel includes many popular word processor features such as bullets, numbering, tables, borders, grid lines, page breaks, text highlighting, as well as headers and footers.

Blocks-to-Manuscript Conversion
After you complete your outline, you can transfer the contents of your blocks to the manuscript panel and begin writing. The title and text of each block is transferred to the manuscript panel. The title of each block becomes a Blockmark indicating a separate section of your manuscript.

Manuscript-to-Block Conversion
You may also convert your manuscript into blocks. The function is useful with importing information from other programs.

Blockmarks
Link blocks to sections of your manuscript using Blockmarks. With AutoScroll on, clicking on a block scrolls the manuscript to the corresponding section. Conversely, clicking on a Blockmark in the manuscript pans the corresponding block to the center of the block display area when AutoCenter is turned on.

Synchronize manuscript
Rearrange your manuscript simply by rearranging your blocks. Blockmarked sections of your manuscript can be re-ordered based on the new locations of your blocks. Turn on AutoNumber to renumber your Blockmarks each time your manuscript to synchronized.

Blockmark pop-ups
When editing your manuscript full screen, double-click on a Blockmark to display the contents of the corresponding block in a small window over your manuscript.

Format individual words/text
You can now format individual words or characters within a block. Each paragraph within a Block can be left, right and center justified. You can also set margins for each paragraph within a block.

Column Insert and Delete
You can now insert and delete columns in your Writer's Blocks documents. There is also a new 'Select All Blocks in Column' function to help you move blocks from one column to another.

Greater control when adding new blocks
You can now add a block to a particular column by clicking on the column heading before adding a new block. Holding down the Shift key when adding a new block will allow you to drag the new block to a new location immediately after adding the block.

Greater block capacity, greater text capacity
Writer's Blocks now allows you to create hundreds of blocks each containing several pages of text.

Power Panel displays formatted text
The Power Panel now displays fully formatted block text.

Delete multiple links
You can now continue deleting links until you are done.

Mouse wheel scrolling
You can now use your mouse wheel to scroll through your document. Rotating the mouse wheel pans the display area horizontally. Depressing the mouse wheel while rotating the wheel will pan the display area vertically. You can also scroll vertically by holding down the Control key while rotating the mouse wheel.

Right mouse click functions
Right clicking over the text area in a block will display the Edit menu. Right clicking over the border of a block will display the Block menu. Right clicking over the display area will display the Display menu. Right clicking over the manuscript panel will display the Edit menu.

Progress Bar
A progress bar displays the percent complete for many functions such as Open, Save, Print, AutoSize, Search and Replace, and Block conversions.

Drag-and-Drop Text
You can now drag-and-drop text between blocks or any Windows program that supports drag-and-drop. This capability is very useful when collecting information from other sources such as your internet browser.

Drag-and-drop Blocks
You can drag-and-drop blocks between open Writer's Blocks files.

New Export Formats
You can export your outlines and manuscripts as Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML, and plain text formats.

Import New Formats
You can import Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML, and plain text files into the Manuscript panel.

Don't Split Blocks during Printing Option
Writer's Blocks now has an option to not print partial blocks on a page. If the entire block does not fit, then the block will be printed on the next page.

Display Page Breaks
Writer's Blocks can now display page breaks in Block Mode.

Leveling To Page
You can now arrange your blocks so they fit on one page vertically, using as many horizontal pages as required.

Leveling to Blocks per Column
You can still arrange your blocks by specifying the number of blocks are column by using the leveling function with "Don't Split Blocks" turned off.

Set Background Color of Block Display Area
You can now customize the background color of the block display area.

Improved Printing
Writer's Blocks now allows you to print with greater control to a variety of paper sizes. The Print Preview screen now allows you to use your mouse to zoom and scroll with your mouse wheel. A ruler and grid have been added to Print Preview to assist with accurate page formatting.

New Toolbar Buttons
Writer's Blocks contains new toolbar buttons including: Add Block, Block Panel, Manuscript Panel, Split Panels, Home, End, Arrange, Level, Renumber, and Resize.

Manuscript Ruler
A ruler allows you set tabs and margins for individual paragraphs of your manuscript.

Status Bar
The Status Bar displays the current page number, line number, cursor column, and zoom setting of the manuscript.

Headers and Footers
Create and edit manuscript headers and footers using the Header/Footer Toolbar.

Bookmarks
Block bookmarks allow you to quickly jump between blocks, panning them to the center of the display area. Writer's Blocks now supports an unlimited number of bookmarks.

View Blocks as Outline
To display and edit your blocks as an Outline, use the View Blocks as Outline function. Changes made in Outline View are reflected in your blocks.

View Outline as Blocks
After editing and formatting in outline view you may convert it back to blocks using the View Outline as Blocks function.

AutoType
The AutoType feature is a word completion function that learns as you type. Any word that all ready appears anywhere in your document will be automatically completed the next time you enter the first few characters of the word.

AutoScript
The AutoScript feature assists you when writing a screenplay, automatically formatting your script in the standard submission script format. Use the popular Tab and Enter key script formatting system along with pop-up slugline, scene, character, and transition lists to format your script.

Spell Checking
Writer's Blocks now contains a new, larger dictionary. Add words to your own custom dictionary. The 'Spell As You Type' function offers word suggestions for misspelled words using a pop-up menu.

Thesaurus
The Writer's Blocks thesaurus offers synonym for the currently selected word.

Word Count
Count the number of blocks, words, characters, paragraphs, and lines in your blocks and manuscript.

KEY BENEFITS
• Increased Productivity - Writer's Blocks lets you capture and arrange your ideas easier and faster than ever before.

• Better Organization - Writer's Blocks lets you store all of your story ideas in one place. Each scene or point is captured in its own block for easy manipulation. All of your blocks are displayed in the document workspace for easy reference.

• Faster Outlining - Writer's Blocks lets you capture your ideas at the speed of thought. Brainstorm to capture your ideas, then arrange them later. Because each block can hold up to 5 pages of text, you're free to let your ideas flow. You don't have to write your notes in code so they'll fit on an index card or Post-It note.

• Better Structure - Editing you blocks is a breeze. Each block is like a tiny word processor document. When you are ready to structure your story, just drag and drop your blocks under column heading that you define. Use the AutoArrange and AutoNumber features to keep your blocks in neat rows and columns as you flesh out your story.

• Story Overview - Writer's Blocks gives you the big picture. By highlighting key scenes and points in your story, you can analyze the structure and pacing of your story. Has your protagonist been off screen for too long? Is your story balanced? Writer's Blocks helps you keep you story on track!