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New Novelist--Start Writing Your Novel

by Creativity Software
Platform:   Windows 95 / 2000 / 98 / NT / Me / XP
2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
RRP: £29.99
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  • Platform:   Windows 95 / 2000 / 98 / NT / Me / XP
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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New Novelist--Start Writing Your Novel + Write Your Own Novel - Standard + Start Writing Your Novel With...New Novelist, Version 1 (PC)
Total RRP: £49.97
Price For All Three: £33.11

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Product Features

  • Gets new writers started immediately
  • Provides alternative means for experienced writers
  • No blank screens - prompts and help at every turn
  • Drop down menus help create and develop ideas for characters and scenes
  • Work on as many different books as you want

Product details

  • Item Weight: 100 g
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  • ASIN: B000063UVS
  • Release Date: 8 Mar 2002
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,037 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
The idea that creative writing cannot be taught seems to be challenged by recent history. The creative writing course at Norwich, for instance, has produced authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Andrew Miller; the latest attempt to impart the "rules of fiction" is Newnovelist--Start Writing Your Novel, a CD-ROM designed to assist the aspiring writer's learning curve.

Newnovelist aims to help writers hone their ideas, guiding them first to select the concept of their book, and then its category--be it an epic narrative, plot-driven or character-driven. After further honing the idea into a type of story (whether the tale is driven by a chase motif or revenge, for instance) the package gives tutorials on essential elements in creating the atmosphere of the novel and helping to picture the world that the characters inhabit. The final stage is to move from this to the creation of the story itself, with advice on the passages that will be necessary to realise the world and the characters successfully.

There is much that is valuable here in terms of plot and character, but some elements of the package are less helpful, particularly the section that asks the writer to give a one-line summary of their proposed book--nothing is more infuriating or awkward for an author than being asked to describe their book in half a dozen words. There is also no concentration on the importance of writing from inspiration and experience, and scant reference to the significance of prose style; in the end, without these elements, NewNovelist--Start Writing Your Novel can only be a piecemeal addition to the growing "industry" of teaching creative writing, although its tips on character and plot may well be helpful to some. --Toby Green

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Very poor, 27 Nov 2005
By A. Jones - See all my reviews
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NewNovelist is a good idea, but the software is so riddled with bugs that it becomes unusable. For a start it will often lose the information you've stored in one of its files, so you lose every bit of work you've done.

Aside from the bugs, the idea of actually writing in this is laughable. There are no word-processing capabilities whatsoever. You can't change the font, font-size, use bullet-points, or anything. If you do write something you can't export it. You can only save it and open it in NN. You can't format your work, so you'd never want to submit it to a publisher! You can't even right-click in the text window should you want to copy and paste something!

Given that I paid £30 for it, I feel very ripped off. Don't buy this, just make your notes on paper and write your novel in Word.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars New Novelist review, 17 Nov 2005
By maz (London) - See all my reviews
I bought this a few years back now and i noticed that this program is buggy and after a while you can't be bothered to put up with its errors anymore.
your probably better off just using word or something similiar. Seriously don't waste your money on junk like this.
you'll regret it.
i mean there is no spellcheck.
sometimes there is only so much you can write - (nn stops you from writing!?)
help feature sucks coz it doesn't help you.
and if you try to call up customer services to get the pin to unlock you wont get through EVER!
just use word - seriously!
new novelist is CRAP!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, poorly executed, 10 Mar 2005
By A Customer
On the plus side, this software helps me with what I wanted it to help me with. A big plus. It forces you to consider character in detail, story type and structure, the importance of location and several other facets of good story telling.

The big negative is that you can't access any of this in a printed, or even a comprehensive onscreen, report. That's right - you can spend hours detailing all aspects of your major and minor characters, only to find that the information is trapped in fairly unhelpful units in the software.

The really annoying thing is that the software itself claims that such reports can be generated. After an hour of head-scratching I called the company helpline and asked how I did this. The polite man on the other end of the phone admitted I'd stumbled on a 'hot potato', and that such reports couldn't be produced at the moment. An upgrade/patch is expected by the end of the year.

Until such a patch arrives, I'm loathe to invest time in the creation of data which I can't access in any useful form.

This is very disappointing, as the software itself is really rather good, and exceedingly useful, but until it's been improved I'm off to look at other options.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this one!
If you need a bad start to writing your novel... "Newnovelist" is the perfect writer's companion for you.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Just use word, not this garbage.
Okay, echoing the reviews of others, I have found this to not be user friendly, but it is not this that had me tearing out my hair, ripping the c. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars I wasted my money on this program.
If you want to write a novel that's falls withing the 1 of the few restrictive templates this program provides then you may, just about, be happy with this program. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars impressed
I have just completed my first novel using this software. Before I used newnovelist I had problems starting my story, after installing this product it all seemed relatively easy... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Unsure.....
I've got to be truthful, I am in two minds about this product. I only bought it several days ago, and I haven't explored it completely. Read more
Published on 7 April 2005 by lorna_j

5.0 out of 5 stars A great investment!
I ordered this a few days ago, and after ordering it, I read through some of the other reviews and got worried. I shouldn't have worried at all. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Losing the plot (almost)
First of all i found it installed and ran in Windows 98 with no problem, shame there's no Mac version though. Read more
Published on 5 Jul 2004 by K. Lester

4.0 out of 5 stars I am glad I bought it
I nearly didn’t buy this because of the poor reviews – but a friend of mine recommended it. Read more
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