theproofangel:

Hiveword: a planning tool for writers

When you are planning a long piece, you need somewhere to jot things down. If your idea is hazy, or if the result will be complex, conventional techniques can get messy. Pieces of paper can get chaotic. Spreadsheets are useful, but although sorting is useful, after a while it gets complicated.

Hiveword is an on-line tool for novel planning, but it can be used for all sorts of writing.  The…

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fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

Sure!

A lot of people use avatar/doll creation websites to design characters. Here are some for you:

• So Fetch!
• Lunaii
• Elouai
• Doll Divine

People also use face claims, which is taking people from real life and basing your character’s appearance on them. Here are some more links:

• Fc-Help
• Rphelper’s face claim directory
• Fchelpers
• Jellyfishfaces

As far as key visual points, I think these would be some important questions to ask yourself:

• What sort of style does your character like? Do they prefer style or comfort? Do they prefer to stand out with their appearance or not attract a lot of attention? Is there any sort of material or clothing that they don’t like (I don’t like wearing wool, linen, or long sleeves, for example.)
• What sort of accessories do they usually have with them? What’s the reason or the story behind them? (Examples: good luck charms, lockets.)
• What sort of impression do you want your character to make with their design (physical description is not character development, of course, but what sort of impression do you want your character to make on other people when they first see them?)

Hope that helps, Anon~

– Pen

argonianbot:

i dont think you guys appreciate how rad this site is 

because first of all you got your basic fantasy and game race names for like

everything

BUT AS IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH

REAL NAMES WHICH ARE GOOD FOR BOOKS

AND THIS THERE’S MORE????

BAM, PLACE NAMES

AND STILL MORE

SO YOU SEE THESE LITTLE OPTIONS HERE

PLEASE, PLEASE

GO AND TRY TO HELP A GOOD PERSON OUT

andworldbuildingtoo:

Well…It will be a long list. Let’s see:

World Weaving – blog similar to mine. Answers questions and posts useful stuff.

Making Places – by Evan Dahm and several other people. Not active lately  but has a ton of useful information.

Worldbuilding School – exactly what the title says, also they have nice articles on maps.

Fictionfactor: World Building -loads of useful articles, though site specializes in writing and related.

Worldbuilder  – have some useful stuff and also some on DnD (Ghostwalk) session by owner of the blog

Other useful places:

Clever Girl Helps – writing, worldbuilding, research, random facts

Fuck Yeah Character Development

Fuck Yeah Critiques For Sue – on hiatus right now but has a lot of useful info, mainly a critique on original and fan characters.

Write World – has a lot of useful information about everything related to writing.

Fuck yeah forensics – useful information on forensics and other police stuff. Also they have a great list of recommended sources on  forensics, anthropology and other dead people stuff.

Fix your writing habits – tons and tons of useful information

Fiction writing tips – exactly what title says.

The Writers Helpers – they also can help with finding beta reader – check their navi section.

Daily character development

Writing questions answered – a lot of information, very well organized

Fuck yeah Character development – that’s a different blog, but they also have loads of great stuff, including personality tests.

Writing Weasels

The writing realm

Clever help

TWH-Forensics – help on wiriting forensics stuff

Reference for writers + and their master list of online sites and references

The Writing Cafe

Total Rewrite – warning: good blog but they have a very dark theme so it can be hard to read.