5 Things That Should Be On Every Writer's Bucket List. When you stumble into this writing life, you’re met with a massive lifetime to-do list of what’s expected and required of you to ensure success: Write a lot, read a lot, start a blog, know your grammar, write a novel, attend a writers’ conference, join social media … There are those basics.
But sometimes you need an extra creative boost, something to kick your writing into high gear when your career or inspiration are stuck in a rut. After you’ve gotten some of the basics down, explore these bucket list items to boost your creativity and take the next step towards your own unique writing life and career.
Guest column by Dana Sitar, a freelance blogger and indie author of “A Writer’s Bucket List: 99 things to do for inspiration, education, and experience before your writing kicks the bucket.” She shares resources, tips, and tools for writers in search of a path through DIY Writing. The Undistracted Writer's Guide to... Uh, What Was I Saying? Our world is a busy one, full of distractions and messages vying for our time and attention.
Everywhere you look, someone is selling something. Life is too crazy, too hectic, for us to pay close notice. Advertising has trained our ears and eyes to skim and ignore. And we do just that. We tune out and drift, bouncing from on activity to the next. 12 Places to Find Awesome Writing Ideas. Where to find awesome writing ideas.
We look high. We look low. Sometimes it feels like we’ve been looking forever and will keep on looking forever more. They are out there and we know it. But where are they hiding? Writing ideas are not always easy to come by. Not every writer is on this quest. Writing Ideas are in Your Hands. Pet Prose Peeves. Okay, I could list poetry as well as prose, but even I draw the line at quite that much alliteration.
In fact, overdone alliteration is also one of my peeves, but too minor to be considered a pet one. [After writing this whole thing I realized that personal and petty should also be on the list.] As you may suspect, this topic has some connection to the fact that I’ve been reading many, many stories for my next anthology. This lot was at least as good as those for my previous eight books, but the effect does become cumulative, and the weather’s been oppressive, and I don’t have much else to rant about that would fit in this forum, so here are some of my personal peeves, in no particular order.
Random City Map Generator. The Random City Map Generator creates a "random" city or town map suitable for fantasy and other role-playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, GURPS, HERO and many others.
Note: you can try out version two of this tool. Because the map is made from layered images, to save or print a map you need to either: Take a sceenshot (print screen key) and paste into an image editor; Or print the page to a pdf file (Macs have this built-in, PCs may need a product like "cutePDF".) See more caveats and planned features below. Planned Features/Caveats Yes, the streets are too ordered for most cities... a couple of completely different street layouts will be added and they will be more random/meandering. City Generator. Extended Traveller Character Motivations.
Creative Writing Games. BlaBlaMeter - Bullshit detection tool. Guide to Grammar and Writing. Writer's Diet™ Test. The WritersDiet Test Is your writing flabby or fit?
Enter a writing sample of 100 to 1000 words and click Run the test. ATTENTION USERS: Please note that the WritersDiet Test is an automated feedback tool, not an assessment tool. The test identifies some of the sentence-level grammatical features that most frequently weigh down academic prose. It is not designed to judge the overall quality of your writing — or anyone else's. Run the test! The test automatically excludes in-text citations and all other parenthetical text. The test automatically includes all text in single quotes. The test automatically includes all text in double quotes.
If you use certain keywords frequently (e.g. education, organization), you can exclude them from the word count by typing them into the text box. Wildcards can be used: * stands for any letters (so *tion means any word ending in tion), ? Please note that you may need to re-specify the excluded words when you test a new sample. Www.sharonlippincott.com/downloads/This_Truth_I_Believe.pdf. WordCounter. Critique Circle Online Writing Workshop. Tip of My Tongue - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag. WordCounter. Serendipity.