So You Want to Become the Next Bestseller Author - and You Have a Pc..

So you are a novel writer and use the PC.

You do not have a Mac but need a authoring toolbox for your PC. In this case, you want to check out what writing software is available on the PC. Below you will find a selection of some of the best and/or most popular ones.
Writing a book, short story or research paper is more than just hammering away at the keyboard until it's done. There is research, scrawling fragmentary ideas that don't seem to fit anywhere yet, collecting faded photos from old newspapers, shuffling index cards to find that elusive structure. Most writing software is only fired up after much of the hard work is already done. Having a: writing software that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the first - or even final - draft. Outline and structure your ideas. Take notes. Storyboard your masterpiece using a powerful virtual corkboard. View research while you write. Track themes using keywords. Dynamically combine multiple scenes into a single text just to see how they fit. Authoring software has already been enthusiastically adopted by best-selling novelists and novices alike - whatever you write, grow your ideas in style.
PageFour allows you to edit and organize your writing in a tabbed interface. It provides word processing and outlining capabilities, and is probably the product closest to Scrivener seen on Mac but here on Windows. It also provides versioning (called "Snapshots" in PageFour). Highly recommended.
RoughDraft is a great piece of organizational software that allows you to create and edit rich text files in a tabbed interface, organize them in a Windows Explorer-like side panel, and to keep notes on each one. Unlike other writing software mentioned here, RoughDraft doesn't keep your files inside its own package, but instead just aids you in organizing them on your hard drive. Recommended.
WriteWay Pro is a designed to be a professional writer's tool. It restricts you to using Acts, Chapters and Scenes, but other than that it is fairly freeform, with a "scratch pad" for storing ideas or scenes you don't know what to do with. It has decent word processing capabilities, but for me it's a little over-complicated and clunky, with the option to fill in numerous forms about characters, what should happen in chapters and so forth. I prefer my software not to prompt me, but to leave me to get on with things. Nonetheless, WriteWay Pro seems powerful and relatively flexible, and it is fairly popular.
Liquid Story Binder seem to have had a similar idea to me: to allow writers to store and view their research in the same application as they do their writing. It lets you view pictures and multiple files, although it does force you to do so in different windows. It also features a decent labelling system and various other tools aimed at the creative writer.
StoryView is an intriguing idea and potentially very powerful. It is essentially an outliner, except that as well as being able to view your story synopsis in a traditional(ish) outliner, you can also view it as a hiearchical storyboard. So at the top, you have a very wide box that may be a description of your book as a whole; underneath that, you might have three boxes describing the three main sections of the book; beneath each of those, you might have several boxes describing the chapters in each part; and so on. Definitely worth trying out.
NewNovelist seems to be one of the more popular creative writing software titles available on the PC. I'm not a big fan of it myself, but it seems to have gotten quite a good review from the Sunday Times (according to their website), and I do owe NewNovelist a big debt as it gave me the initial spark of inspiration for Scrivener. The trouble with NewNovelist is that although it keeps a list of your documents over on the left and allows you to create the text and edit on the right, it is very rigid and formulaic. It forces you to divide your writing into twelve parts, which are based (through various annoying onscreen prompts) on