Writer's Cafe

Writing fiction is not as simple as people may think; at times it can be a big pain. Developer Anthemion Software seems to be aware of this and came up with a software application that helps ease this pain and that helps any aspiring fiction writer. Writer’s Café is the name of the application in question, and it provides a powerful set of tools that will prove to be quite helpful.

The Writer’s Café installation file of 17.4MB will take little time to download on a good internet connection. A setup wizard will then help you install the application on your PC, that can be powered by anything from Windows 2000 to Windows 7. Besides the Windows version, there’s a Writer’s Café version for Mac and one for Linux.

A “Welcome to Writer’s Café” wizard will show up when you first run the application. If you don’t want to bother with the wizard, you can cancel it. If you don’t cancel it, the wizard will take you through a few settings you should set up in advance. You will get to choose the default project location, if you want to see tips at startup, if you want to use Writer’s Café’s internal browser, and what language you want the interface to use.

Speaking about the interface, it was designed by published novelist Harriet Smart and it is easy to use as well as good looking. There’s a Getting Started Guide, a Manual, and there are some built-in examples to help you get started with Writer’s Café.

StoryLines is the most important tool that Writer’s Café has to offer. This is a story development tool that will help you with your writing and it will make it easier and faster to structure and create fiction. There are several other tools on top of StoryLines: a notebook to write down anything you want, a pinboard, a journal, a dictionary, a scrapbook, a utility to generate names, a writing prompt utility that tells you to write about something just so you can test yourself, and there’s a built-in browser as well.

A registered version of Writer’s Café also gives you access to “Fiction: The Facts” a 60-page ebook that distils over 20 years of experience.

With Writer’s Café and its powerful tools by your side, the only thing that’s keeping you from writing fiction is your imagination. You have all the tools you need to create a novel or a screenplay, you just have to use them.