You can go into any BestBuy, Fry’s or major electronic store that sales Apple products and it will be the same as buying it from the Apple Store. There are programs for script writing, or story writing, but everyone has to pay for a program. It’s what separate professionals from the amateurs. For instance, if you’re a musician, you’ve got to buy the Logic Pro application if you want to make it into the commercial big time. Same with photographers, you’ve gotta mess around with the Adobe Suite, because that’s what is in within the industry at the moment. They are very powerful tools made by software engineers. Hard work made, for hard workers. Mac has Office Mac. Something much cheaper is called Pages. Also iWork is slightly cheaper than Office Mac.