Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #783 in Software
• Brand: Anthemion Software
• Released on: 2005-01-31
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 98
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
Writer's Café is a software toolkit for all fiction writers, whether experienced or just starting out. The heart of Writer's Café is StoryLines, a powerful but simple-to-use story development tool that dramatically accelerates the creation and structuring of your novel or screenplay. Designed by published novelist Harriet Smart, Writer's Café also includes a notebook, journal, research organiser, inspirational quotations, writing exercises, and a 60-page e-book, "Fiction: The Facts", distilling 20 years of writing experience.

Writer's Café is a little different from other fiction writing software packages you may have tried. Successful writing comes when you get into a particular state of mind - like shifting into a different gear. Ideas for stories aren't so very hard to come by, but transforming them into a fully-fledged narrative is another matter entirely. Writer's Café is designed to be a nurturing environment that lets your mind explore all the possibilities. It won't tell you what to do. It won't churn out pre-drawn plot schedules for you to follow, or hinder you by demanding answers to difficult questions. It will let you relax so that you can jump into the world of your imagination and play there.

Writer's Café features StoryLines, a uniquely simple but powerful story structuring tool. Writers have always used scraps of paper, blank index cards or postcards to record separate incidents in their stories and then sort them into the best possible order and identify the gaps. StoryLines takes this concept to the next level, allowing you to write and organise your virtual cards really quickly. Keeping track of a plot, making sure it has a unity and a proper structure is no easy feat - and these days, most stories have more than one plotline. StoryLines allows you to plan each plot on a separate line and arrange the events you have recorded on the cards to create the best effect. If you have the idea that you want your love story to be resolved before the espionage plot plays itself out, StoryLines makes it easy to see if that works, and to try out all the alternatives without too much rewriting.

Writer's Café is ideal for screenplays, novels and short stories.

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Customer Reviews

Good for those of us ....
....who are quite disorganised and/or haven't really got the hang of plotting yet. The 'Storylines' feature works on a principle I've seen outlined in a few 'How To' books about writing, but is a whole lot easier to use as it's impossible to lose or mess up (unless of course your whole PC goes down!).

You still have to do the donkeywork of coming up with ideas in the first place, but I find this programme fun to use and quite helpful in staying focussed on the plot. I'm pleased I bought it!

Writer's Café - Creative Writing
don't waste your money. Full of useless nonesense, a pathetic card game, why is that in it? An even worse tune for your so called entertainment.
There is nothing in this programme that you will not already have on your computer. the storyline ad-on is okay, but again it is probably just as easy to use an XL file.
A very girly programme of very little use to the series writer

Writer's Café - Creative Writing (PC)
this product is perfect it allows freedom tobe creative but is also helpful . I love it. futhermore the support service is incredible the author of the software answer directly your questions and solve any problem¡¡¡
and the look of the interface is beautiful and full of color not like others grey windows software.