Complete List of 'Write Again!' Features

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Complete list of Features for 'Write Again!' 1.3.0.1
(Note: PE, SE and LE are used to describe Professional, Standard and Light Editions respectively. Features limited to a specific edition are indicated clearly.)

For feature additions since version 1.3.0.1, please go to the New Features page.

Minimum Requirements

min. 800x600 resolution
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
32 MB RAM

Projects Manager

The Projects Manager is your first step towards organising your writing activity. Create new manuscripts or proposals here with an initial status of 'Draft' and link the record directly to any number of files on your computer. Once linked, you can simply do all your work from the Projects Manager - filter to display only those stories of yours that are not yet complete and open the files directly from Write Again!. Work in your favourite word processing application while Write Again! lets you track all your works in progress.

Add/Modify/Delete Projects
Submit Projects Directly - singly or to multiple Contacts.
Link Projects to other Projects
Record Writing Type, Genre, Status, Word Count, Personal Rating, Start/End Dates and Notes, then Filter on these characteristics.
Link any number of files to your projects and open them from within 'Write Again!' with your usual Windows applications; link to all your electronic notes, graphic files, drafts and final MSs from one place! (SE and PE only)
Link web sites and email addresses to your Projects. (SE and PE only)
Display 'Available Work'
Show All Submissions of a particular Project
Show All Markets currently open that will accept this project (restricting by acceptable word limits, genres, writing types, etc).
Track Tasks for your Projects; statuses, types, colours. (PE only)
Display Project submission history - current submissions and published (accepted) work.

Organising, managing, and submitting your work has never been this easy!

Markets/Contacts Manager

The Markets/Contacts Manager is the hub of Write Again!. In this screen, it is possible to store your writing related organisations, friends, mailing lists, web links, agents, and more. A Contact is stored in one of five major categories (Market, Agent, Competition, Web or Other), and assigned a specific Contact Type within those categories (eg. Small Press, Publishing House, Mailing List, Web Page, Writer, or anything you define in Settings). All relevant details for a Contact are stored here, including Genres and Writing Types accepted by the Contact, mailing details, web links and e-mail addresses.

You use the Markets/Contacts Organiser to store and manage all potential writing related organisations, from your writing critique group to your mailing list to markets to potential agents or writer friends

Add/Modify/Delete Markets and Contacts
Submit to a given Market directly - Single Submit or Multiple.
Record Contact Type, 3 Pay Rates, Min/Max Words, whether it takes Email subs/simultaneous or multple subs/serials/reprints, Average Response Time, Market End Date, Open/Closed status, Submission periods, Acceptable Writing Types (flash fiction, novels, poetry, etc), Acceptable Genres, Rights Requested, Output Types (Trade Paperback, Pulp magazine, Audio recording, etc), Mailing Address, Contact Info, Notes, Contact Email, Submission Email (if applicable), Home page and Guidelines page.
Filter on the above characteristics.
Link to another Contact - perhaps you need to know who published the work?
Show All Submissions to a particular Market.
One-click Copy of a Market's contact details for easy pasting into correspondence.
Show All Projects currently 'Completed' that can be accepted by this market (restricting by acceptable word limits, genres, etc)
Download your displayed Contacts list to a text file suitable for Excel manipulation.
Set deadlines for markets easily. (SE and PE only)
Link directly to online market resources
Updating and managing your markets and writing contacts is a breeze!

Submission Manager

The Submissions Manager is the repository for the essential writing information you need in order to track your career progress. It stores all submissions you have made to your Contacts, as well as the status of those submissions.

You can define your own submission statuses in the Settings screen - these statuses fall into three major categories - Accepted, Waiting, or Rejected. Examples of submission statuses you may wish to create are 'Awaiting Contract' in the 'Accepted' category, or 'Market Folded' in the 'Rejected' category. These customisable statuses allow you to add an additional level to your submission tracking, far beyond that of simply 'Accepted' or 'Rejected'. An expected response date is calculated from the Contact's expected response time and the Submission date, and Write Again! can alert you to overdue responses on start up, allowing you to make follow-up queries as required.

Add/Modify/Delete Submissions - Single Submissions or Multiples for those myriad queries or proposals.
Find your submissions easily by Project, and view all submission history for that project at a glance.
View a Market's expected response time, and the actual response time of the submission - use this information to update your markets!
Submission Warnings - a system warning if you try to submit a Project to a Market that won't accept it (Market is closed, Project is a reprint or simultaneous submission, etc).
Record Sent and Received Dates, Submissions Status, Mail Method, Postage, Tax, Miscellaneous Costs and Income.

Time Planner (SE and PE only)

The Time Planner exists to help you plan submissions and other writing related deadlines (such as draft copies or closing competitions, etc). Each deadline has up to two deadline dates and a 'Days Notice' field that allows you to plan potential deadlines more accurately. For example, a final deadline value for a competition would be its closing date, but the first deadline might be the day you want to start writing the submission to that competition (or finish writing it).

Deadlines can be linked back to a specific Market/Contact in order to retrieve its Market End Date values. In the Settings screen, you can allow Write Again! to notify you on start up about any approaching deadlines.

Set/Modify/Delete Deadlines.
Set/Modify/Delete Tasks. (PE only)
Set a first and a final deadline, with the number of days notice you require - mark a Market's closing date, and a deadline to remind you to submit your work to them the month before!
Overview of all your Deadlines.
Overview of all your Tasks. (PE only)
Calender view of your Deadlines.
Deadline information - Days before a Deadline's next notice, Number of days until first and final due dates.
Set a deadline automatically for a given Market's Closing Date.
Record notes.

Submission Status Reporting

Display 'All', 'Waiting', 'Rejected', and 'Accepted' Submissions at a glance.
View Submissions individually, grouped by Project Title, or grouped by Market.
Graph your submissions by date range - 30% Accepted submissions for the last financial year!
Graph your submissions by genre - 50% of my writing is romance!

Market Viability Reporting (SE and PE only)

Display all Unsubmitted Work at a glance - never lose track of your old projects!
Display all Markets that have never been submitted to - never lose a potential market in the rush!
Display all your Work that has been submitted but never accepted - sometimes you have to murder your babies...
Display a summary of all markets that have accepted your work, and how much you're earning from them - your most frequent buyer may not be your best money maker.

Finance Manager

Manage your Financial records.
Report by Project, Market, Submission or General.
Graph your income over time.
Print reports out for your files.

Customisation

Customise the 'Write Again!' starting screen - go straight to the management screen of your choice.
Set your default directory for Project files.
Choose to start 'Write Again!' when Windows starts up.
Display or Hide expired Markets on the Markets/Contacts Screen.
Set your Notices - pop up full messages for approaching deadlines or overdue submission responses, or simply have a small, generic reminder.
Maximise all screens.
Default Single or Multiple Submissions.
Toggle icons for Project statuses.
Check your notices at any time without restarting 'Write Again!'.
Customise Genres.
Customise Writing Types - poetry, fan fiction, movie scripts, anything you write.
Customise Mailing Ttypes.
Customise Market/Contacts, divided into main categories of Market, Agent, Competition, Web, or Other.
Customise Submission Statuses, divided into main categories of Accepted, Waiting, Rejected.
Customise Rights (SE and PE only)
Customise Output Types (SE and PE only)
Customise Task Types (PE only)
Customise System Warnings
Customise Tasks Settings - View, Task Heights, etc (PE only)
Customise Notice sounds

Other

Simple backup feature - copies your entire Database directory for backup

Documentation

Comprehensive help file (current as of version 1.3.0.1).
Tutorials included in help - Create a document, a market, a submission, and a deadline. All you need to get started.

Support

Your 'Write Again!' registration comes with online technical support.

Upgrades

Your 'Write Again!' registration covers all minor upgrades and bug fixes for 'Write Again!'. Upgrades are available from the Asmoday Enterprises website, and notification of updates will be emailed to your registration email. The term 'Minor Upgrades' indicates all changes and improvements relating to the current version of 'Write Again!', Version 1.x.x.x.