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Novel and short story writers interested in a free solution to write their novel scene by scene and edit chapter by chapter
About SmartEdit Writer
SmartEdit Writer, free software for novel and short story writers. A free software to plan your novel, prepare and maintain research material, write your novel scene by scene, and edit chapter by chapter in a modern Windows application that has a similar look and feel to Microsoft Word. Store images & links to websites, all in a handy research section that sits right next to you as you write. Create character profiles, outlines & notes as you work. No more 100,000 word Microsoft documents. Write your novel one scene or chapter at a time. Drag and drop scenes inside your document until it’s just the way you want it. Identify word and phrase over-use, monitor adverbs, crutch words & clichés, and improve sentence structure & punctuation, all using SmartEdit’s editor toolbar. SmartEdit Writer allows you to group your work-in-progress and any research you’ve built up about it into a single project. Add folders, scenes, and notes to your document tree.
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"Sort of like a Scrivener Lite, but with some tools even Scrivener doesnt have." Posted 2026-03-13
Pros: It doesn't need the internet, and it's free. The editing tools are the main attraction, IMO. If you are trying to avoid AI tools, it has a bunch of great monitoring tools that are not AI, similar to ProWritingAid or Hemingway. Shows a list of your word and phrase repetitions, all adverbs you used, redundancies, misused words, homonyms, "new" and "knew", "less than" and "fewer than" shows a list of your cliches, dialogue tags, proper nouns, acronyms, risque words and phrases, all words and phrases used to begin sentences. Shows extra-long sentences. Shows all the punctuations you used, etc, etc
Cons: I wish it exported to HTML.
It's rarely updated (but it's still easy to find).Overall: It may not replace Word or Google Docs, but you'll at least want to load your document into it and check your writing, especially since ProWritingAid is even more stingy with their free version these days.
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"It looks good at first sight" Posted 2023-05-16
Pros: At first I was quite pleased with it design, workflow, easy to get to know it. I got into developing and creating a story pretty easily.
Cons: 8 days later, suddenly all text from every single scene, and I mean all = 100%, had vanished. Characters were still there, but what to do, when all the flesh has left? No copy or saved files could be opened or reopened and if only the emptied project was there. Hours went on and that was it. I could not retrieve a single word. I should have copied every line to whatever text program and save it elsewhere.
Overall: It needs a lot of precaution to to use safely. If you want to make sure that you do not lose any content you already created develop your own safety routine.
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Not recommended at all.
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