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30 Days of WorldBuilding

30 Days of WorldBuilding
By popular demand, you can now download the Magical WorldBuilder Guide in three easy-to-carry (non-DRM) formats: PDF for printing out at home or reading on a computerePub for use with many fine ereader devicesMOBI for use with Kindles and MobiPocket software.As of 2007, The world-builder exercises are licensed under a Creative Commons license to help you in deciding whether you can translate (yes, with credit back), distribute to your writing group (yes, with credit), sell (not without permission), reprint (yes, for non-commercial purposes), or mirror (yes, with credit back) this useful guide! In October, 2004, I posted 30 days of world-building exercises to the NaNoWriMo discussion forums. These are short, 15-minute exercises that can help you make crucial decisions about your world, and what you want your story to say about it. So, give yourself 7 and a half hours this month-- 15 minutes a day-- to build a world. You'll need some way to track this stuff, by the way.

Générateur de nom, pseudo, personnage... Les meilleurs générateurs en ligne ! Que ce soit pour un pseudo, un personnage de jeu, de roman, pour un animal, ou même pour un enfant, les occasions de trouver un nom sont plus fréquentes qu'on ne le croit. Pour ceux qui sont en manque d'inspiration, voici une liste de générateurs de nom. Si certains sont vraiment farfelus, tous méritent le détour ! [Liste mise à jour en octobre 2014] Dotomator, si vous cherchez un nom de site & startup web 2.0Générateur de nom de personnage fantastique / médievalSur Teva, un générateur de prénom (des idées pour votre futur petit)Trouver un nom, générateur de nom universel (site, société, prénom, pseudo...)Générateur de nom et prénom dans toutes les languesChine Informations propose de traduire votre nom en chinoisRockStarName, pour les amateurs de rockUn générateur de nom de chat, parce que ce n'est pas toujours facile de trouver un nom à son compagnonGangastaName, générateur de nom gangsta Blogadilla propose un créateur de nom de meuble IKEA.

Magic Magic, Sorcery, And Alchemy Spells and potions, sorcery and divination, here's your place to work your magic . . . on magic! Abilities and Spells Academic Magical Studies Inspired by Terry Pratchett's "Discworld", this is a mostly-serious utility - it creates areas of magical study for mage characters in an academic realm. Magical Equipment Magic Items Generate a variety of magic items, from any kind, specific types, over even character-appropriate! Miscellaneous Magic Phenomena What strange phenomena can cause havok and wonders in your settings? More Resources!

Logiciels pour écrire un roman Plusieurs mois, j’ai cherché et essayé différents logiciels et utilitaires pour aider à écrire , planifier et structurer un plan d’écriture de roman ainsi que son manuscrit. Bien sûr, le processeur Microsoft Word rempli cette tâche pour la rédaction, mais pour découper le texte, déplacer des blocs et stimuler une hiérarchie de sous-textes ou d’avoir une barre de navigation et d’exploration de texte,Word cafouille et ne se prête pas à ces rigueurs qu’un auteur a besoin pour écrire son roman ou nouvelle. Voilà, je vous présente le fruits de mes recherches et labeurs. Pour autant que certains puissent vous satisfaire, je serais bien content. Vidatech : J’écris un roman et Phraséo J’ai acheté Phraséo l’hiver dernier (une centaine de dollars). J’écris un roman : Phraséo SpaceJock Ywriter 5 C’est le pendant Phraséo GRATUIT. Keynote TreePad

Magical World Builder By, Stephanie Cottrell Bryant <map name="admap78618" id="admap78618"><area href=" shape="rect" coords="0,0,468,60" title="" alt="" target="_blank" /></map><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:468px;border-style:none;background-color:#ffffff;"><tr><td><img src=" style="width:468px;height:60px;border-style:none;" usemap="#admap78618" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;" colspan="1"><center><a style="font-size:10px;color:#0000ff;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;font-family:Tahoma, verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-transform: none;letter-spacing:normal;text-shadow:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:normal;" href=" The Magical World Builder's Guide is a tool for creating a fantasy universe. Fantasy, like all fiction, is a function of the imagination.

Short Stories: 10 Tips for Creative Writers Short Stories: Developing Ideas for Short Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : Issue 79 Permanent link for Character Chat! Don’t Write What You Know - Bret Anthony Johnston Why fiction’s narrative and emotional integrity will always transcend the literal truth Every Wednesday, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a bullet-pointed list of things the students should try hard to avoid. Don’t start a story with an alarm clock going off. Don’t end a story with the whole shebang having been a suicide note. Don’t use flashy dialogue tags like intoned or queried or, God forbid, ejaculated. The idea panics them for two reasons. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should admit I’ve been accused of writing what I know on a good many occasions. The facts are these: I was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, the part of the country where most every word of fiction I’ve published takes place. Instead of thinking of my experiences as structures I wanted to erect in fiction, I started conceiving of them as the scaffolding that would be torn down once the work was complete. Was Toni Morrison a slave?

So, You Want to be a Travel Writer Six tips to get you started from veteran travel writer Julia Steinecke. Around the world in 80 travel-writing assignments? Only if you're lucky. Travel writer Julia Steinecke sheds some light on one of the world's most appealing and misunderstood professions. Travel writing is... huddling in my luxury hotel room over a bowl of instant noodles that I boiled in the coffee maker. The tourism board put me up but didn't pay for my meals and I can't even afford a sandwich in this town. Travel writing has the kind of glamour attached to it that makes people think you're willing to do it just for the cool factor. Travel writing is knowing the best place to sleep on the floors of several major airports in Latin America. Travel writing is suddenly realizing I haven't left my home for two days because I've been sitting in front of my computer writing sponsorship requests to airlines, hotels and tourism boards. 1. 2. You need a lot of solid networks before you go freelance. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Ink - Quotes about writing by writers presented by The Fontayne Group Writing "I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark." Henry David Thoreau "Writing is an adventure." Winston Churchill "Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them." "Whether or not you write well, write bravely." "The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say." Monologue: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. [Originally published June 15, 2010.] Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? People love me. When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. It doesn’t even matter what you think. Enough of this bullshit. Available in our store:The “I’m Comic Sans, Asshole” Mug

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s so easy to hide in your little bubble, typing your little words with your little fingers on your little laptop from the comfort of your tiny chair in your miniature little house. It’s no secret that great writers are great readers, and that if you can’t read, your writing will often suffer. Available in print withThe Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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