 The
Writer's Software Companion offers:
- Personalized
Advice following a detailed interactive
interview with you - advice based on your
specific writing genre, interests, and habits.
- Eleven
highly interactive Learning Laboratories
where you practice new skills and get instant
feedback from Nancy Kress. Each learning laboratory
uses state-of-the-art multimedia technology
and is designed to create a unique, rigorous
learning experience.
- Key
Points: quick-review synopses of
hundreds of writing topics, a bite-sized,
predigested summary of the field of fiction
writing that radically shortens your learning
time.
- Checklists:
Check your work for over 500 technical considerations
such as quality of prose, degree of tension,
correct use of exposition, etc. A writing
adviser at your fingertips.
- Quick
Studies, brief, focused, instant-access
advice on topics such as conflict, plot, point
of view, etc.
- Sixty-seven
columns on the art of writing by
Nancy Kress published over a five-year period
in Writer's Digest magazine, giving you in-depth,
comprehensive understanding of the field.
- Question
and Answer: Instant interaction with
Nancy Kress on a variety of writing issues.
- Hundreds
of examples of story beginnings,
plot structures, dialogue, choices of tone,
point of view, etc., drawn from published
literature, annotated by Ms. Kress. See how
the experts do it or kick start your own writing
at the moment you need to.
- My
Notes: thirteen areas where you add
your own notes, a running diary of your thoughts
and learning.
- Hot
Words: instant definitions of hundreds
of literary terms as they appear in the text.
Just click the mouse.
- Troubleshooter:
a diagnostic tool that helps with the most
common problems for beginning writers such
as weak plotting, melodramatic writing, padded
prose, poor story logic, missing dramatic
question, etc. Troubleshooter takes
you from your writing problem to its remedy
with a click of the mouse.
- Electronic
Search: a rapid-search table of contents
that lets you find over 200 topics by an alphabetical
list, or by simply typing the first two letters
of the topic you want!
- Master
Index: a tool for the professional
writing instructor that makes The Companion
the perfect electronic textbook.
- A
fast-retrieve glossary of hundreds
of literary terms, organized alphabetically.
Throw away your "writer's dictionary."
- Copy,
letting you edit, annotate, and print out
essays, key points, checklists, etc.
- Word
Search, letting you locate a topic
instantly by typing virtually any word or
phrase ("conflict," "Jane Eyre")
in the English language. Ask any question
in your own words.
- Names
Catalogue: A catalogue of over 5000
foreign and domestic names for your characters,
indexed by both gender and letter of the alphabet.
- History:
Letting you see all the places you've been
in a learning session - and return to any
location in a single click.
- And
much more. Most importantly: each feature
of the Companion can be brought to
your computer screen instantly - with a click
of the mouse.
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