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Home of the Gaian Summer Writing Months, based off NaNoWriMo 

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Is this as helpful as the title coyly suggests?
Yes yes yes!
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It's good, but could you please include this other link? (Sure, if you post it silly.)
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It's okay.
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MST3K!?!? omg sarge hav mai babies plz plz plz <3
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Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:37 pm


These are some links that helped me during NaNoWriMo last year. Some of these can also be found in the main Writer's Forum.

General

Limyaael's Rants - Advice on nearly EVERYTHING related to fantasy writing!

Anti-Shurtugal.com - A site dedicated to criticizing the Inheritence Series, with a few good rants on writing.

The Snowflake Method - An intriguing method for planning your novel. Also helpful for finding focus.

Notecarding: Plotting Under Pressure - Want to know how to plan your novel using notecards? This is your site!

The NaNoWriMo Forums - Lots of helpful people. Moves a little slower than the Gaian Writer's Forum.

The Writer's Forum Link List - Puts Sarge's linklist to shame. crying Your resource for great writing advice.
PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:38 pm


question Writer's Toolbox question

Sandra Argentium
My word program either doesn't have a word counter or I don't know how to use it, so I found this.

Word Counter


Wikipedia - Great for fast, easy research. Not always reliable.

Encyclopedia Mythica - Contains information on myths, legends and monsters of various cultures. I find it hard to search.

Google - It's a search engine. Duh?

Dictionary.com - Has wordyness. Includes a thesaurus that is 999x better than the thesaurus in MS Word.

Behind the Name - Great place for names. Try the random name generator!

ZGAngel
Okay, I found this recently trying to find a name for my demon lady, its a site that breifly explains demons and who they are in the underworld. Might be useful for horror writers or any of you Vampire authors.

Demon Names

Sergeant Sargent


Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:40 pm


idea Inspiration idea

Prompt Me! - Dev Kimiko's famous thread, where a roll of the dice results in inspiration.

Fun! ^_^

Bonsai Story Generator - Copy/paste up to 6,000 words of your novel into this story generator and you'll recieve a wonderful mess of jumbled, yet eeriely coherent sentences. Great for stress relief.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Okay, this has nothing to do with writing, but I was on a regimine of 1 MST3K episode per day during last year's WriMo and I can honestly say it helped me win. These movies are so bad, they'll make you feel good about whatever you're writing. Sarge recommends: Space Mutiny, The Horrors of Spider Island, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Teenage Caveman, The Undead, Terror From the Year 5000, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Puma Man, Monster A Go-Go, Eegah!, The Incredably Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed up Zombies, Phantom Planet, Pod People, Merlin's Mystical Shop of Wonders, Santa Claus, and Mitchell.

A word of caution! Each episode of MST3K is roughly 90 minutes. Don't let them eat up your day!!

101 Reasons to Stop Writing - Something I found motivational, but as the title suggests, not for the faint of heart.
PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:40 pm


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Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:53 pm


Aaaaaaand open! heart
PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:05 pm


whee *Clicking frenzy* I love Limyaael, not only for her fantasy rants, but the ones on Mary Sues and other stuff on writing in general.
She also did a few essays on feminism which I found very interesting.

omfg_nachos


Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:35 pm


Anarchy Rabbit
whee *Clicking frenzy* I love Limyaael, not only for her fantasy rants, but the ones on Mary Sues and other stuff on writing in general.
She also did a few essays on feminism which I found very interesting.


I love her too. I haven't read all her stuff, but the first rant I read was the one on half-breed protagonists. It gave me a lot of hope for my half-breed protagonist. whee

Glad you're finding the links helpful.
PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:23 am


I love the 101 reasons to stop writing blog. Makes me want to torch everything I've ever written. xd

lueque


Lady Paperclip

PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:52 pm


That Bonsai Generator is going to stop my progress, I swear. It's so amusing!
PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:24 pm


Can we post our own helpful links, too?

_-_Vicious Cycle_-_


Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:14 pm


Xutaka_Half-Elven
Can we post our own helpful links, too?


Yes, of course!
PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:18 am


Okay, I found this recently trying to find a name for my demon lady, its a site that breifly explains demons and who they are in the underworld. Might be useful for horror writers or any of you Vampire authors.

Demon Names

ZGAngel


Sergeant Sargent

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:22 am


Added! biggrin
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:21 am


My word program either doesn't have a word counter or I don't know how to use it, so I found this.

Word Counter

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Sir Macca of Pepperland

PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:40 pm




Elfwood Tutorials

Reading those articles really gets me excited to try and push myself and write better.

Writing Fix

Writing fix has some nice prompts with phrases and things, although I wish it were a little easier to navigate around!

Seventh Sanctum

Seventh Sanctum is a huge help to me. It's got generators for nearly everything, from silly to serious to get the juices flowing!

Hope this helps!
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