Writing Resources

[Nanaea]

(*Eve, I thought there was already a thread for this. If I missed it, please feel free to move this post! Perhaps you could pin it too?)

I found the Seventh Sanctum quite a while ago (while searching for a random name generator for a PC), but this site has so much to offer writers that I figured that I just had to share it here.

[Strawberry]

I love seventh sanctum! Some of those generators are just soo....hilarious!

[EveKnight75]

At first, I also thought there was a thread for this. Apparently, there isn't. We were both thinking of the Erotic Thesaurus thread, which contains a lot of useful links.

I've pinned this thread because it's obvious how important a list of writing resources would be.

[Nanaea]

The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test

Now we all have no excuses.

[EveKnight75]

Found these while cleaning up and thought I'd share.

Here you go: http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/articles.html

Look down the list for the second section and you'll see articals on sex as a language and another on Crafting intamate moments by Radclyffe. Alot of the info is useful but alot also made me realize that publishing was not for me.

Well hope it helps out.

jaa ne

Kat

lol... great minds think alike.

A good source of bondage descriptions and vocabulary is bdsmlibrary.com.

[Melrick]

Refdesk

* Refdesk is great one-stop source for references and facts.

Bartleby

* Another good reference site.

HowStuffWorks

* A very good site to find out how a wide range of stuff works. Want to know exactly how Viagra works, for example? This site will tell you much more than you ever cared to know.

WebMD

* If your story involves anything medical, or if your character suffers from a certain ailment/desease then this site will describe to you everything you need to know about it.

Writers Free Reference

* This site provides external links to a huge range of different information.

Law Enforcement Jargon

* Excellent if one of your characters is a cop.

Character Jobs

* Not sure what job to give your charater? This site provides a list of them! This url takes you to the contemporary jobs, but the site also has fantasy/medieval and science ficture/future job lists.

Erotic Quills

* Lots of good advice on writing erotica.

Serendipity

* Various name generators, using the Seventh Sanctum generator codes.

Suburban Name Generator

* Want to create a name for your town/suburb? This might help.

Squid.org

* Some rather good fantasy-type name geneators.

Namator

* A contemporary name generator.

[FairyNiamh]

Not sure but perhaps this is the place to post this. If you are without Microsoft word and writing late at night... that usually means there are some misspelled words. You can run this nifty little spell checker. Free Spell you can add words not commonly used and names.

Hope this was the right place to post this. Ja Ne.

[Melrick]

If you don't have Microsoft Word and can't afford it then there's an excellent free alternative available. It's a part of the OpenOffice suite. They have various programs like in the Microsoft Office suite. Writer is a part of their suite and has most of the stuff that Word has, including spell checking. It might be worth checking out.

[cu-kid9]

I found this site Common Errors in English, to be really helpful. It has lists and lists of common errors, a list of "Non-errors" (things that people keep telling you are incorrect, but really just aren't), and then a list of other resource links at the bottom.