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The best Novel Authoring alternative to WordPad is Scrivener. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WordPad, but unfortunately only two of them are Novel Authoring Tools.

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    Scrivener

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    Tailored for extensive writing, this tool offers flexible structure and organization, integrates project outlines, supports various formats, and allows reorganization through drag and drop, ensuring research materials are within reach for efficient work.

    202 Scrivener alternatives

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    Nisus Writer Pro

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    Scriptable, macros, multipart selection, styles. Multilingual. Text expanding feature. Document Manager. Use any number of keys to execute menu command, e.g. press Command key, then FAU for "Find all uppercase words." Extremely customizable.

    63 Nisus Writer Pro alternatives

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