Help Thread: Writing Resources

[IggyKoopa]

TVTropes has been mentioned, but I will point out the So You Want To namespace. There's a lot of useful stuff there, from advice for writing in general, specific genres, and using certain tropes.

 

[JukeboxTheGhoul]

I've got a website which I believe is extremely useful, while yes it does contain a Mary Sue Litmus Test it is not exclusive to that, it includes a plethora of social-conciousness advice, world building and very interesting different things that you can read for hours. They have very good characterizing ideas and lots of ideas that allows any blocked writer to expand their story.
https://www.springhole.net/
https://www.springhole.net/writing/create-better-futures.htm
At the top it has a number of Logical Fallacies, Generators and links to different ideas for world building and characterizing.
https://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/...perceptions_by_character_resource-d4tir1z.png
This is good to develope characters.

 

[Bay]

I've got a website which I believe is extremely useful, while yes it does contain a Mary Sue Litmus Test it is not exclusive to that, it includes a plethora of social-conciousness advice, world building and very interesting different things that you can read for hours. They have very good characterizing ideas and lots of ideas that allows any blocked writer to expand their story.
https://www.springhole.net/
https://www.springhole.net/writing/create-better-futures.htm
At the top it has a number of Logical Fallacies, Generators and links to different ideas for world building and characterizing.
https://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/...perceptions_by_character_resource-d4tir1z.png
This is good to develope characters.

Thanks for the suggestions! Skimmed through both links and those seem to have good suggestions on world building and characterization. I'll need to be ready to leave in a bit, but I'll add them when I come back!

 

[Pure Essence]

I feel like I need to add FantasyNameGenerators, which is what I use to make character names. https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com

 

[Auticorn]

Even though it's expensive, the app version is relatively cheaper... can we maybe add Scrivener as a resource? :O

Also, would it be okay if I made my own master post thing for names and posted it here to be added? They'll mostly be for girls because they tend to have the most prettiest names to me. I can make a huge HUGE list of them if anyone is interested! I don't use every name either, I recycle a lot of names I like at times.

 

[NicholasHicks]

So many of them. Thanks

 

[LadyLurantis940]

Unless I skipped over it, I don't think I saw https://pokemondb.net/ here. It's an awesome website that functions similarly to a Pokédex, where you can not only explore Pokémon, but also items, abilities, moves, and more! It's more for general knowledge rather than stories that take place during the main storyline because there aren't pages about canon characters. This isn't even mentioning the Q&A and chat room.

 

[Venia Silente]

It's a good thing to see all these additions. Frankly, it's time this thread is overhauled rehauled, and having an influx of new tools is a major welcome. So far we seem to be covering enough areas - from writing processors to writing and planning tools to knowledge on Pokémon general.

 

[Auticorn]

A friend of mine actually showed me a site that lets you track your counts. I progress, whether it be a word count etc. I wanted to share it with y'all!

Track Bear

Bonus:

Picrew: if you're like me, and can't draw for shit... this is an excellent place to create face claims if needed for your characters. I do suggest using uBlock Origin with this one if you can as it does ignore Adblocker and showcase lots of ads. I know they fixed it at one point, but I have yet to see how (I'll get back to you on that... someday lolol).

Reddit Answers: While, it's AI generated... I do really love this one because it can search the whole Reddit database for already asked questions, and I use it a lot when I need something answered as part of my story.

WonderSpace: If you want to do any kind of writing sprints, this site can help with that! I'm not sure what how many times you can do it with the free version. I keep forgetting to use this one myself. ^^;

 

[Venia Silente]

Can't really recommend Reddit Answers since... well, it's AI generated and not that much different than actually using Reddit search (which, funnily enough, you have to use from outside Reddit for it to work right because enshittification). It does however manage to cover pretty well two of the subreddit communities that should be most useful for people going there from here: r/writing and r/eli5. Defo can't recommend it for asking anything scientific or historic, who knows how it's going to censor or bias the answers.

Conversely, have seen people do quite good stuff – marvels level even– from Picrew for quite a few years already I think? I could swear there was an upsurge of usage of face makers like Picrew or perhaps some predecessor right when Generation VI hit the market (wow writing that makes me FEEL OLD) and the ones that were around got a lot of improvements because of that. Am not using it only because I'm more of a "find an actor/actress who looks like and claim that instead" person and I've had luck with that so far XD.

On tools, it's more of a programming thing so only mostly useful to verify stuff in a pinch or in batches, but PokeAPI gets you all the statistical or mechanical data you wanted about Pokémon in the games but you feared to ask, without having to load up Bulbapedia. There's a lot of frontend already (or for Veekun's Pokédex, its original dataset) that you can load up on your phone etc..., quite useful for those who write or consult data on‑the‑go.