The templates are always there, if you ever need them. Another fun feature is the ability to turn your writings into secret code. Write a juicy letter, click a button, and voila, your letter is turned into pig latin, Braille, or must be read with a mirror. The main screen is the Project Picker which is where you pick a project to work on. Amazing Writing Machine works like a basic word processing program.
Navigation is simple and commands are easy to remember.
You can even generate random sentences or select word options in animal, vegetable, and mineral categories plus a useful selection of descriptive words. There's also an Address Book option where you can find the addresses of many publications, organizations and well-known people that kids can write to. Of course, there's plenty of rooms to add names and addresses of your own friends and relatives. The names and addresses can then be directly placed on your own envelope when you're ready to print a Letter. Kids can save their work and retrieve them later to print out or work on again.