myWriterTools Writing Software

We have just improved our versatile word and phrase counting tool with lots of new features. This writing tool is a standalone program that analyzes your Word document, text file, or Scrivener project for character, word, phrase, and sentence usage. It produces sortable tables of counts for all words and phrases, and graphs sentence length. It can analyze each sentence and assign a grade level difficulty, or help you find your long and hard-to-read sentences. Fine tune your writing and find overused words and phrases. myWordCount now runs on your Mac as well as Windows!

New features include:

• Flesch-Kincaid grade level analysis: myWordCount analyzes every sentence and assigns a Flesch-Kincaid grade level to each sentence to make it easy to spot your difficult sentences.
• Character counting: Count the number of occurrences of every character in your document. Use this character frequency table to find special characters or analyze character usage.
• Group words by their stem or root: The Count Words function now gives you the option to group similar words together based on their root or 'stem' using stemming and lemmatization algorithms.
• Find adverbs ending in ly: Writers often overuse words made into adverbs by adding 'ly' at the end. myWordCount finds these ly adverbs for you. Don't let too many ly adverbs spoil your novel.
• Scrivener file support: The program can read Scrivener project files and analyze their content. It supports both Windows Scrivener and Mac Scrivener files.
• Mac support!: Our new version now supports the Macintosh computer and all OS versions from 10.5 Leopard and later. Now you can make your character frequency, word frequency, and phrase frequency charts from your Mac documents.
• FAST!!! We sped up most of the program functions by a significant amount. We compared our previous version (2.03) to this new version by opening a 430-page novel and running some of our count routines on the text. The results were eye-opening (I know...why didn't we do this before?) You can see these times by click on the More Info link below. You won't find a faster word and phrase counting software package on the market.

myWriterTools

Want to improve your writing, whether it be books, articles, blogs or papers?

The basic product includes a number of easy-to-use tools that find mistakes missed by Word's spelling and grammar checking. It installs as a toolbar at the top of your document. You can edit all of the lists so you can personalize the program to fit your experience and requirements.

The program comes with a complete writer's reference library to help you get the answers to your grammar and style questions as you are writing. Then use the easy-to-use tools to find and correct any mistakes. It contains a list of commonly misused words with their definitions to ensure you select the proper word every time. There is a built-in style guide that gives you grammar and punctuation guidelines from The Chicago Manual of Style.

You stay in control of this tool. It does not offer advice that is often wrong or not needed. It gives you recommendations when it finds problems and you control what words and phrases it looks for. The entire database is editable by the user--you can even add your pet peeves.

• Lighten Up. Find and fix long words and sentences. See more information about document readability statistics and how to improve your document's readability.
  
  
• FormatFixer. Automatically fix common formatting problems.
  
  
• lyRemover. Easily find and change unnecessary adverbs ending in -ly.
  
  
• WordFlipper. Find commonly misused words and fix them.
  
  
• JargonBuster. Find and fix commonly misused words and jargon.
  
  
• Style guide. Access style guide tips for all grammar and style categories. There is a standard guide and a guide based on The Chicago Manual of Style.
  
  
• U.S. to U. K. conversion. Change U.S. spelling and usage to U.K. spelling and usage, and vice versa. See description of U.S./U.K. differences.
  
  
• ClichéCleaver. Find and change overused clichés.
  
  
• GenderBender. Find and replace sexist language to make your documents gender neutral. See more information about running GenderBender.
  
  
• Reference Library. A writing library that includes Strunk’s The Elements of Style, an English Grammar guide and a complete Style Guide.
  
  
• Glossary. A searchable glossary of common writing and editing terms. See the glossary now.

• Reference Websites. One-button access to useful writing websites.
  
  
• Backup. Easy backup that time stamps backup file with your comments. This will also take your large document and create separate files for each chapter in your book.
  
  
• Easy-to-use Bookmarks. Add multiple visible bookmarks.
  
  
• Place Saver. Save your place each time you close a document.
  
  
• Page Format Menu. Quick access to common page layout views.
  
  
• Document Info: page size and margins, document readability statistics.
  

  And...you can edit, delete or add your own entries to all of the lists.

myWriterTools Plus-Editor's Edition

The perfect tool for authors, copyeditors and proofreaders

This product includes all of the tools listed above in the basic myWriterTools, plus additional tools designed for the specific task of working on a manuscript that will be formally edited and proofread. The extra tools show up on the same toolbar and are just as easy to access.

This added functionality lets you track and print individual style sheets for each document. No more manually keeping track of unique words or queries to the author. Your comments are kept in a separate database and can be displayed in a pop-up window, or printed with your style sheet with page and line references.

• Author Query. Add, modify and print questions for the author.
  
  
• Format Tags. Easily add format tags if your printer requires them.
  
  
• Quick Notes. An easy-to-use notepad for each document.
  
  
• Style Sheet. Easily add information to the stylesheet made for each document. There are 10 separate sections, including Character Names, Locations, References Used, and Foreign Words.
  
  
• Checklists. Complete checklists for all steps of the writing and editing.
  
  
• Print. Print a complete style sheet.