Make a directory called C:\WPSETUP. Move the file WPW115P.EXE from your AOL download directory (usually C:\AOL\DOWNLOAD) to C:\WPSETUP. Run WPW115P.EXE. The files SETUP.EXE and README.WRI will automatically be decompressed. Run SETUP.EXE to install WritePro for Windows Lesson One. (For step-by-step instructions, e-mail writepro@pipeline.com.)
WritePro is the world's most highly-praised creative writing program, used by over 80,000 writers in 38 countries. Saves beginners years of trial and error and immediately eliminates writer's block. Professional novelists and screenwriters praise it. Reviewers are ecstatic. "First rate!"--Associated Press. "I am indeed raving about WritePro"--Computer Shopper. (See what the New York Times, Writers Digest, and others have to say below).
LESSON ONE INCLUDES:
* The two most important things that every fiction writer has to master: The essence of characterization and plotting.
* How to make heroes, heroines, and villains come to life for readers.
* How to avoid the two-dimensional characters that cause editors to reject manuscripts.
* How to master the key factor that drives every plot and rivets the reader's interest.
* How to make your story or novel dramatic.
* How to overcome one of the biggest difficulties facing fiction writers: Making villains completely believable.
THE BENEFITS YOU RECEIVE:
* You'll see the evidence of your own progress within five minutes of starting the program. That's guaranteed!
* You'll learn the key to dramatic writing in the words of Elia Kazan, whose four biggest bestsellers were edited by Sol Stein, the creator of WritePro.
* WritePro is "as easy to use as a typewriter" (PC Resource). It installs automatically.
YOUR MENTOR PRACTICES WHAT HE PREACHES:
Sol Stein has edited and published some of the most successful writers of our century: James Baldwin, F. Lee Bailey, David Frost, Jack Higgins, Elia Kazan, Budd Schulberg, Dylan Thomas, Lionel Trilling, W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and three heads of state.
Stein has taught creative writing coast-to-coast, at Columbia, Iowa, and the University of California at Irvine, is a prize-winning playwright produced on Broadway, an anthologized poet, the author of nine novels including the million-copy seller The Magician, plus nonfiction books, screenplays, and TV dramas.
MORE ACCLAIM:
WritePro is the only software selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and six other book clubs.
"Stein's teaching method is direct, intuitive, and truly interactive. [It is] immediately helpful. I am indeed raving about WritePro. WritePro is a nearly perfect educational program."--Computer Shopper
"WritePro is wonderfully straightforward in operation. The program will work for writers other than aspiring novelists; the principles of good writing are good for all kinds of writing."--Ripley Hotch, Nation's Business
"To get that book out of you and onto paper, WritePro may be the best [money] you've ever spent."- Newsbytes News Service
"These are valuable lessons for the would-be novelist. The manual is short, actually written in English, and practically unneeded. Working with WritePro could hardly be easier. This is a program for a writer."- L. R. Shannon, New York Times
WritePro won a Star Search award from Computer Reseller News.
YOU RISK NOTHING:
If you decide this program isn't for you, the included automatic uninstaller will easily remove the program from your hard disk. Over 98% of all WritePro users wouldn't be without it.
