Editing WriteNow (section)

==Reception==
[[File:Eddy 1986.jpg|alt=MacUser Best New Word Processor 1986|thumb|MacUser Editors' Choice Award for Best New Word Processor 1986]]

''Compute!'s Apple Applications'' in 1987 wrote that "''WriteNow'' is the Pegasus of Macintosh word processors—swift, easy to learn and use, and packed with power".<ref name="mcneill198712">{{cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/stream/COMPUTEs_Apple_Applications_Vol._5_No._2_Issue_6_1987-12_COMPUTE_Publications_US#page/n55/mode/2up | title=Macintosh: The Word Explosion | magazine=[[Compute!]]'s Apple Applications | volume=5 |issue=2, #6| date=December 1987 | access-date=14 September 2016 | last=McNeill |first=Dan | pages=54–60}}</ref>

''[[MacUser (US edition)|MacUser]]'' gave WriteNow 2.0 for Macintosh a 4 mice (out of 5) in the August 1989 issue, pitting it against [[MacWrite#MacWrite II|MacWrite II]]. It praised the speed of the application, while criticizing the complexity of the multi-column formatting.<ref name="macuser1989_08_2" /> WriteNow won MacUser's Editor's Choice Award for Best New Word Processor in 1986<ref>{{cite magazine
| url=https://archive.org/details/MacUser8701January1987/page/n58/mode/1up
| title= 2nd Annual Editor's Choice award
| magazine= MacUser
| date=January 1987
| pages = 53–56
| volume = 3
| issue = 1
}}</ref> and 1988.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/MacUser8905May1989/page/n98/mode/1up |title=The 4th Annual Editor's Choice Awards| magazine=MacUser |date=May 1989 |pages=91–99 |volume=5 |issue=5}}</ref>