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Topic Started: Jan 27 2010, 10:54 PM (843 Views)
Prof. Sam


I decided to make this topic in order to try to increase the quality of writing around here, knowing that we have many young members around it's good to give them some help developing their skills, so here are a large collection of various tools and rescources for all your creative literary needs. This may be updated periodically, so check back every now and then to see if anything's new.

FictionPress

A high-quality site on which to post stories and potery, which can then be read, reviewed, and favorited by other members. I personally put all my stories on there and then link to topics at forums I use, because it reads better than if it were put on the forums. It supports rich-text formats and doesn't mutilate paragraphs the way Invision does, so I reccomed putting all your stories there. It's also a good place to go to get inspiration for your own works, or just to read a good story (and there are some quite good stories on there, if you dig through the piles of mediocre and abysmal works).

FanFiction

The sister-site to FictionPress, this is the same concept, the only difference being that it's for fan-fictions of existing works, rather than completely original pieces.

Wikitionary

I imagine most every house has at least one dictionary lying around, but if you don't, here's what is, in my opinion, the best online dictionary avalible.

Thesaurus

For those that don't know, a thesaurus is essentially a reference that provides synoyms and antonyms for words. It's useful when you're writing and you want to reffer to the same person, thing, whatever, without actually using the same word.

The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test

A hany tool for determining how original a character is, this rescource should be taken with a grain of salt; it's not perfect, because it can't take things entirely in context or determine if a new spin has been put on something (not to mention, some of the categories are rather dumb. Personally, I don't see how whether or not the character's name is based on yours makes him cliché or not. It's not like everybody has the same name). Some very innovative characters may score high, while some fairly trite characters may score low. That said, it's still a reasonably accurate measure, and shouldn't be completely ignored.

Worthy of Publishing


A site generally used by more serious writers (though really, anyone can post there) to determine the general quality of a piece of work. Many stories there are meant to be published, but it's also good for simply bettering your writing skills.

TVtropes

This was suggested by Turtlecash, I haven't fully used it yet but it seems like a good site for common plots and other bits you may find helpful.


*More to be added at a later date*

Hope this helps,
Prof. Sam
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Alright, thanks for getting this back up.

The topic has been pinned once again.

You had some broken links there by the way, I fixed them.
Edited by turtlecash, Jan 28 2010, 09:06 AM.
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