Why I buy this one ?
- Software that helps you write a Novel, Book or Short Story on Any Subject. NEW VERSION 2 JUST RELEASED - PACKED WITH EXCITING NEW FEATURES!
- Developed for use on a PC - for everyone who has a book in them. NEW VERSION 2 INCLUDES ENHANCED STRUCTURING TOOLS, MORE VARIED THEMES, MORE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, MORE FUNCTIONALITY THAN EVER BEFORE!
- Gets new writers started immediately: Provides experienced writers with a new perspective. NEW VERSION 2 JUST RELEASED. MORE HELP THAN EVER BEFORE!
- No blank screens - prompts and help at every turn written by experts. NEW VERSION 2 JUST RELEASED HELPS WITH WRITING CHARACTERS, THEMES AND PLACES WITH THE POWER TO MOVE CHAPTERS AND FULLY STRUCTURE A NOVEL!
- Quick to install, fun and easy to use - already enjoyed by over 80, 000 people Worldwide. NOW WITH VERSION 2 IT'S EVEN MORE EXCITING AND STILL THE BEST PRODUCT ON THE MARKET!

Creativity Software Ltd offers this stuff with condition New, new for:

Price : $54.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

What our customer's say!

"Not practical.", This software "New Novelist" is not at all practical for anyone who is trying to write. It also does not run well with Vista. I definitely would not recommend it to anyone. What it mainly lacks is the ability to see and put all the information you entered together. It's more like hide and seek or out of sight, out of mind. I tried to print what I wrote so I could peice it together on paper but it didn't have the ability to conform to my needs. Sorry! Just not realistic.
L Laverriere, Amazon customer

"Not what I expected", I bought this software (two days ago) from the product website as a download + CD. There was a 28-day money-back guarantee. I only used the program for 1 day.
After spending much time entering data, I was ready to begin plugging my already written manuscript into the software. As I began the edit process, I realized the program is nothing but organizational software. If I had only had bits and pieces of my novel scribbled on note pads, perhaps I would have appreciated the software more than I did.

I was shocked that the word processor did not have word count or spell check features. The name generator formulated some strange suggestions. It also underlines contractions, within dialogue, as though they are errors.

Customer Support:

First of all, I did not receive a confirmation e-mail following the purchase. I checked my bank and the transaction showed up in my account. When I visited the product website, there was no web form available to contact customer service. I decided to surf over to the software manufacturer's website. I sent a message letting them know a form was not available on the product site and that I desired a refund. Then I went back to the NewNovelist site and used their tech support web form to request a refund and ask that they not send the CD. First thing this morning, I got an friendly e-mailed message confirming the refund.

"New Novelist", Now this is a great software program! Although I have already written and published two novels, ("Devil's Game" and "My Friend Sam") with three more in the works, this program adds a great deal of "splendor" to your efforts. It strongly "urges" the aspiring novelist to think out his/her characters in advance. This offers more opportunities for them to go off in interesting tangents. I recommend it very highly!

"Great Product, Great Service", I had been toying with the idea of a book for some time now. About 6 months ago, I came across newnovelist and this was the first step. I purchased a copy and it arrived 2 days later.

I had a few problems with the Vista install so I contacted the support team. They came back to me right away with a patch and in no time at all I was getting stuck in.

The program is very simple, but also has some really neat features that were really useful to me in gathering my thoughts and getting the basic storyline right. The beauty of this is that I could go exactly where my imagination wanted to go and it captured all the creative input and helped me turn this into a story.

Another great feature is that I could have a break, or even come back days later, and everything was saved as I had left it. This meant that there were no interruptions in terms of trying to gather my train of thought.

For anyone who has thought of writing a novel, I would like to highly recommend this piece of software. Not only did it help me finish my first novel, but the guys behind it are really helpful.

Thanks again for a great product!


"No word count-its worthless!", Why would you have a writing program with no word count? Buy another program this one stinks!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Satisfaction Truely Guaranteed", I purchased this software approximately 1 month ago. It shipped quickly and I received it within a week of purchase.

The layout is simplistic, more of an organztional tool for the scatterbrained among us, rather than one of those restrictive plug-your-own-character-into-a-generic-plot-line programs. I was looking for software that would gently provide me with a loose structure instead of forcing me down narrow alleyways of predicability, and this program does just that.

Some of the previous reviews mention the lack of spellcheck, ability to bold, italicize, etc., but the version I have includes these features. It also includes an audio readback feature which I find extremely helpful with sentence structure and flow.

I can not give this product five stars because in the process of transferring Word files into NewNovelist however, I encountered a bug that caused me to be unable to open a specific saved 'novel' without the program closing inexplicably. While the online help fAQ provided little help, the customer service folks were very attentive and apologetic. Although they were unable to offer me a fix for my specific problem, and assure me this is an anomaly, they did refund my purchase price (including shipping) without my even asking them to do so.

So while I'm a bit skittish to lose any more work should such an error repeat itself, and will no doubt back-up all of my writing with Word, I look forward to giving NewNovelist another shot.

A fine product from a company with an almost unheard of level of dedication to its customers' satisfaction.



"One of my Best Online Purchases ", I work as a professional copywriter and have a lot of usage of scripts and copywriting material.

I am now thinking of a storyline for a book I want to write and found newnovelist software on Amazon which I thought may help me out.

This software is really fun to work with, and exciting too as it enables me to formulate my thoughts and provides lots of ideas on improving the storyline. I thought I had everything planned perfectly until I started to use newnovelist. I found so many new ways of thinking about the structure and outline of my book and now feel that it has improved my writing immeasurably

Delivery was swift and I sincerely cannot put a price on how much it has helped me with my masterpiece.

I would recommend this software to anyone

D.Broadrick

"Just The Tonic I needed to Boost my Creativity", I had been toying with the idea of writing my own Novel for pretty much most of my adult years, but never knew that apart from sitting in a darkened room for a year or so and wracking my brains for ideas and poetic prose all by myself, that indeed there could be such a thing as software to help me actually compose, develop and complete my novel to publishing standard.

Enter - New Novelist - what a brilliant - well thought out and completely revolutionary invention!!!

When I found out that help is out there, I assessed 3 or 4 different types of software that claim to help you write a book or novel. Hands down - I found New Novelist be the Best of The Lot!

The software asked me to firstly outline my characters, their backgrounds etc, then moved onto the setting of my novel, locations and situations, it added critical elements to any thriller such as suspense, suggestions for endings, suggestions for beginnings and truly guided me all the way through my novel. Unbelievably I am half way through a 400 page novel beginning from scratch just three weeks ago. I'm so excited that I've already started contacting publishers to take on my Novel which I am confident of completing within the next two weeks - Thank you New Novelist!!!

If anyone out there has ever used Macromedia Director to create digital movies - you will know the degree of depth that this software goes into to create the perfect masterpiece - Just Imagine New Novelist to be the same thing but applied to writing books - What a breath of Fresh Air!

Good Luck
M.Seth
UK


"It's basically digitalized index cards.", newnovelist isn't worth anywhere near fifty dollars. The story types/categories are extremely limiting and don't even come close to portraying the full range of possible genres that a novel can fall into. Once you finish the "wizard" (which is where you title your story and choose a category) the program isn't interactive at all. There are no prompts and the help is vague and doesn't cover more than the most basic principles of how a novel is structured. You learn more about writing a novel by reading good books than you do from newnovelist's help sections. There's no text/grammar editor. There's not even a spellcheck. The one saving grace is that it does allow you to take extremely detailed notes about every possible element of your novel, and to access them conviently while you're writing. However, it doesn't offer any help in creating a timeline or outline for your story, so there's no real way to bring those notes together. All it has is a universal notes section where you can write your own timeline without any help from the program. It's slightly more convienient than keeping your notes in Windows Notepad and having it minimized while you work, but outside of it's organizational properties, it does virtually nothing. Microsoft Office 2000 offers more in depth and useful advice about writing structure and style than newnovelist does. Because I already have it, I'll keep it just because it DOES help me with my notes, but given the choice again, I wouldn't buy it.
EDIT: I would like to add that when I emailed the people at newnovelist to complain, their response was fast and courteous. They actually went to the trouble of calling me on the phone to remind me that newnovelist comes with a money back guarantee. When I told them that I had done too much work on my story with newnovelist to return it, they offered me a free copy of the upgrade, which is coming out later this summer. They also told me that the 30 day guarantee is basically a guideline and that if I still wasn't happy when they send me the upgrade, I could return both for a refund. I've never encountered a company that took the satisfaction of its customers so seriously. Although I haven't gotten the upgrade yet, I've been told that it not only has a spellcheck and editor, but that it also addresses several other concerns that I had directly. I look forward to using the new program, and I'll come back and let everybody know if it's any better.

"Not as good as it sounds.", This program is really good for organizing your thoughts. If that was all I wanted to use it for I would have given it 5 stars. However, there are some vast deficiencies. The biggest problem in my opinion is with the text editor. There is no spell check, you cant tab to begin new paragraphs, you can't change your font or write anything in bold, italics, or underline, cant set margins, cant indent, etc. Basically the text editor is non existant. Its a shell and thats all.

Aside from that I feel like it doesnt really fit for all kinds of writing. The descriptions in the story creation part are vague. They say that they are like that to give you room for imagination. But the problem is that they are so vague its almost as if it told you nothing at all. They kind of dont make any sense.

It seems to only offer one view point to a story. Their process is stuck on Hero vs. Antagonist. There is no story line for two heroes or two antognists. Plus the antagonist is assumed to be bad when not all books have a bad character in that sense. For example, this doesnt really work for romances.

I found that as I wrote and then moved on to the next stage, that stage turned out to be what I thought I was already writing, or that I wasnt sure what stage what I wrote belonged in. I ended up abandoning that part of the program all together and went back to using MS Word. Now I just use it as a place to store ideas and organize my characters.

Their website says you can get a full refund if you arent satisfied but they offer no phone number or email address to do that and the support people dont write back. I started trying to get my money back over a week before the time ran out and no one contacted me. Now its past the date and I'm stuck with a program that doesnt quite do all it boasts.

In my opinion its not worth the money.