In today's vast internet there are 100s of tools that you can choose from for use in your copywriting.

Here is a decent list that you can use for your copywriting purposes:

Wordpress

Microsoft Accounting Express

Serif WebPlus SE

Stock.xchng

Cute PDF (to make your own ebooks and stuff)
Open Office (so you don't have to pay for word processing software and other things, like spreadsheet software, even has a PDF maker)

Google Docs (can share with people on a team if you're working on a project together)

StorYBook - Open Source novel-writing tool.

FreeMind - free mind mapping software

PingMe - online reminder tool

eFax - receive faxes by email

The Free Dictionary - online dictionary

Freelance Switch - freelance hourly rate calculator

txt2tags

PDFCreator

www.audacity.sourceforge.net - for recording audio to my pc (skype interviews, audio to insert into products, etc)

www.aminstitute.com/headline - nice way to 'score' short headline ideas

 http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

He also has several other writer's tools.

To jumpstart creativity I sometimes use Dreamlines, just type in a few keywords related to the scene you're developing and watch the show.

http://solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/f

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