The Writer's Software Companion is a multimedia learning system for fiction writers, the collaboration of Writer's Digest columnist, Nancy Kress, and computer industry learning expert, Terry Boothman. It dramatically accelerates learning, bringing writers to publishable quality in a fraction of the usual time – an extraordinary tool for novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, short story writers, and authors of all kinds.

A tireless writing coach, The Companion knows how you learn and how to build your skills. Unlike a self-help book, it works at the most critical time for learning: during the very process of writing. By giving you total control of the learning process, it saves you years of inefficient trial-and-error activity and accelerates your learning by as much as ten times the normal rate. It's a comprehensive learning system, covering hundreds of writing topics, giving you in-depth treatment in bite-sized chunks that make learning automatic. Windows multimedia-based, The Companion provides a rich, stimulating environment that comes to life immediately, uses an intuitive interface, and asks only a single computer skill: clicking a mouse. You will recover its cost with the sale of a single story.

Requires Windows 3.1, 3.11 or Windows 95, a 486 processor or better, a CD-ROM drive, 19 meg. of hard disk space, and 8 meg. of memory (RAM).

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The Writer's Software Companion CD features:

• 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
• Key Points: quick-review synopses of hundreds of writing topics, a bite-sized, predigested summary of the field of fiction writing
• Checklists: Check your work for over 500 technical considerations
• Quick Studies, brief, focused, instant-access advice
• Sixty-seven columns on the art of writing by Nancy Kress published over a five-year period in Writer's Digest magazine
• Question and Answer: Instant interaction with Nancy Kress on a variety of writing issues
• Hundreds of annotated examples of story beginnings, plot structures, dialogue, choices of tone, point of view, etc., drawn from published literature
• My Notes: thirteen areas where you add your own notes
• Hot Words: instant definitions of hundreds of literary terms as they appear in the text
• 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, etc.
• Electronic Search: a rapid-search table of contents that lets you find over 200 topics instantly
• 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
• Word Search, letting you locate a topic instantly by typing virtually any word or phrase
• Names Catalogue: A catalogue of over 5000 foreign and domestic names for your characters . . . and much more.

Your order includes:

• The Companion compact disk and online reference manual
• A twenty-dollar coupon towards the Wordwright Critique Service.
• The Writer's Internet Resource Guide: 500 links to writers' sites on the Internet
• Software Dreampack for Writers, a second CD that includes 57 shareware programs for writers.
• Free subscription to Writer On Line magazine
• Other bonuses and special offers

World Wide Web:
For free software downloads and a special price discount, visit this website: http://www.novalearn.com/sellers/Hutchens.htm
Or contact: Verlie Hutchens
Verlie@concentric.net