Websites for People
Who Need Help Fast...
Reviewed By Lazette Gifford
©2003, Lazette
Gifford
With NaNoWriMo starting, many people are
going to be frantic for everything from names to story ideas for their work.
Here are a number of links that might help people during the NaNo madness -- and
they might even be helpful at other, less stressful times!
Also be sure to check out Name, Name,
Who's Got the Name by Gerri Baker, a Vision article on name generation
sites.
http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue14/website%20Review.htm
There are a lot more Name generator sites
listed at NaNo as well. Here is the link to the
Generator links? Need
names and such, add one here! on NaNoWriMo. There are a lot of
interesting links there!
http://www.nanowrimo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7028
Don't have a story idea yet? Well you can
always use the Story Generator Forward Motion used for the Story a Day
challenge!
http://www.webcom.com/wordings/artofwrite/storystarter.html
Marion Webster Dictionary on-line.
http://www.m-w.com
Very nice. Generate maps of cities, taverns,
worlds, multiple worlds... there's all kinds of fun toys to just try out here.
http://www.irony.com/webtools.html
The Advanced Dungeon and Dragon Inn
Generator. Actually might be helpful, even in non-fantasy stories.
http://www.adnddownloads.com/inngen.shtml
A
generator for City names. Kind of fun!
http://www.geocities.com/terrorsmartyr/boe/citynames.html
Or
maybe you need to know the location for something in the real world?
http://www.mapquest.com
Well, not everyone needs to find out
information on patron saints, but you never know....
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
This one analyzes names
and might help you find the right one, or develop some oddity about a character.
http://www.zodiacal.com/acro.mv?analyze
Fairy Tale generator. Interesting idea...
http://www.macrowerx.com/~jfusion/ftg/
How about a random magical power?
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/index.html
The Skyview Café... a wonderful site to find
out if there is (or was) a full moon on a certain night, or maybe find out the
exact time the sun will rise on a certain date in a certain area... very nice!
http://www.skyviewcafe.com/index.php
Need to see what a certain gun looks like?
Try this one!
http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/all.htm
Links to all kinds of calendar type things.
Helpful if you're using a non Julian dating system.
http://calendarhome.com/
How about the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
You never know when a few odd facts and figures might help!
http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
Quotes by authors
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp
Rules to live by for you secondary
characters...
http://enphilistor.users4.50megs.com/sidekick.htm
And another one just for fun -- Create rather silly Irish curses...
http://hermes.lincolnu.edu/~focal/scripts/mallacht.htm
Somehow, this one just seems right for
writers (It's a video, so don't attempt if you have a slow machine...)
http://www.eds.com/superbowl/sb_cats.shtml
And finally... the kind of story that NaNo
might engender a few too many times...
http://www.shagrat.net/Html/cows.htm
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