The Writers Forum Links List (Update - September 10)

[Endrael]

The Biggest Misconceptions About How Movie Novelizations Are Written (As unnecessary as it should be because the headline is pretty self-explanatory, this is not about the process of adapting a book into a movie.)

[Endrael]

11 websites to improve your writing, ranging from grammar explanations to parsing your writing to see if you're overusing any words.

[Iysander]

list of resources i collected, copy/pasted from a private forum. there may be duplicates.


characters

• The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
  
• Use Charahub to create or share characters and keep your story organised!
  
• Character Questionnaire - How well do you know your hero?
  
• Questionnaires for Writing Character Profiles
  
• [******** #character help


grammar

• Grammar-monster.com
  
• Grammarly.com
  
• Synonym-finder
  
• Purdue Owl Grammar
  
• Daily writing tips - Grammar


writing styles & readability

• Measure your writing on the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease / Grade Scale + Gunning-Fog Index
  
• BlaBlaMeter - how much bullshit hides in your text?
  
• McGraw-Hill Story Structure
  
• Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
  
• Aztekera Passive Voice Checker
  
• ProWritingAid
  
• Literary Devices to Improve Your Creative Writing Style (free ebook)


writing exercises + prompts

• 750 words a day.
  
• 1 word: 60 seconds.
  
• Writing Challenge Generator
  
• Writing Prompts
  
• More Writing Prompt Generators
  
• Random Word Generator
  
• The Almost Totally Random Writing Exercise Generators Home Page
  
• Random Word Generator + Definitions
  
• FAST CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISES
  
• English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers
  
• English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Poets
  
• 100 themes challenge writing prompts
  
• Prompt tables
  
• One word prompts
  
• Springhole.net generators
  
• List of assorted generators


realism

• Stages of Deterioration in the Human Body
  
• Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language
  
• Writing Realistic Injuries
  
• Writing guns realistically
  
• Worldbuilding masterpost


writing tips

• Writers on Writing #23: Amelia Brubaker
  
• A Few Amazing Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk
  
• “Advice on the Art of Writing Short Stories” — Roberto Bolaño
  
• WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle
  
• Literarylab.blogspot.com
  
• Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
  
• Twain's Rules of Writing


other

• Writing Links & Links for Writers / Word Stuff
  
• Wordcounter.com
  
• Wordcounter.net
  
• Writer: the internet typewriter.
  
• Fifty (50!) Tools Which Can Help You in Writing
  
• The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
  
• Cliché finder
  
• Writeworld.tumblr.com
  
• Curse words in other languages
  
• Various generators
  
• Write or die 2

[I_Write_Ivre]

Would legal sites help?

[Endrael]

I_Write_Ivre

Would legal sites help?

They would be a great resource, actually. I haven't found any good ones myself, so if you have some, link drop to your heart's content. smile

cuil theorist

Thanks for the links. smile I haven't had a chance yet to go through them as more than just a quick glance, but they'll get added to the main list as I have time for it.

[I_Write_Ivre]

Well, there's this, a site about how to recognize sex trafficking. It's actually pretty helpful in what NOT to show characters doing and refers to other, more general kinds of abuse (financial, for instance) that people don't think of at first.

[Endrael]

Writing tips from JRR Tolkien

10 Tips and Tricks for Creating Memorable Characters

[Endrael]

Reorganizing and expanding the off-site links... oy... >.>

[Quotesy]

/casually subs.
emotion_dowant I like this idea of massive links.

[I am The Compendium]

Endy: I can find both writing mistakes by Tolkien one can learn from and due to the influx of this, definitions of Environmental Autism. Want either?

[Endrael]

I am The Compendium

Endy: I can find both writing mistakes by Tolkien one can learn from and due to the influx of this, definitions of Environmental Autism. Want either?

Those would be fantastic, yes. smile

[Endrael]

Since people like giant, tunnelling worms so much, here's this for genuine biological reference to model on:

bobbit worm

And this is what they do:

[Quotesy]

Bobbit worm = nightmares, confirmed.

[Endrael]

Quotes and References

Bobbit worm = nightmares, confirmed.

Not bot flies?

[Quotesy]

Endrael

Quotes and References

Bobbit worm = nightmares, confirmed.

Not bot flies?

gonk
Please spare the delicate fabric of my mind of nightmares.
Please. D':
I beg you.
Nature's scary enough without having to be reminded of it.