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- Random Character Generator : Randomly generate everything about your character: Appearance: name, archetype, age, eye color, hair color, height, weight, aesthetic. Facts: occupation, nationality, birthplace, lives, religion, politics, money, education, pets, hobbies. Personality: talent, favorite food, favorite color, favorite music, values, character traits, flaw, dislikes, fear, quirks.
- Story Idea Generator : A writers dream, a world of inspiration with every click, igniting the fire of creativity.
- Story Plot Generator : Spin the wheel of fortune and let our Story Plot Generator chart the course of your next tale.
- Story Setting Generator : Discover unique story settings with our random Story Setting Generator! Unleash your creativity by exploring diverse locations and time periods.
- Story Generator : Randomly generate a series of "idea" cards to create a new story, these include: setting (when), setting (where), antagonist, protagonist, symbolism, theme, action, conflict, emotion, genre, writing style, and tone.
- Plot Twist Generator : A flip card plot twister game that challenges you to write a story using a set of flip cards that contain unexpected plot twists.
- Book Title Generator : Generate endless book title ideas in seconds with our free book title generator!
- Writing Prompts : Click the button to generate new random writing prompts!
- Nature Writing Prompts : Generate new nature writing prompts with the click of a button. Example: "What can the stillness of a lake at dawn teach us about the power of introspection?"
- Cure Writer's Block : Tips and tricks to overcome writer's block (with videos!). Add your own entry to the "How do you cure writer's block?" section.
- Writer's Block FAQ : Answers to every question ever asked about writer's block. If you have a question, ask it here!
- Story Generator : Randomly generate a series of "idea" cards to create a new story, these include: setting (when), setting (where), antagonist, protagonist, symbolism, theme, action, conflict, emotion, genre, writing style, and tone.
- WordWeaver Writing Prompt : A creative writing gizmo that features 12 famous writers: Jack Kerouac, Gabriel García Márquez, Mary Oliver, Donna Tartt, Marcel Proust, Matsuo Bashō, Jamaica Kincaid, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Anaïs Nin, Poppy Z. Brite, and Charles Bukowski. Hover over their image and 5 random words from their writings will appear. Take one word from each author and construct a poem or story from this group of words.
- Nature Inspiration : A collection of beautiful nature images and quotes as writing prompts and inspiration for creative writing.
- Flash Fiction Generator: Three Sentence Stories : 1. Opening – a captivating introduction that grabs the readers attention, 2. Change – a turning point at which the main character goes through a transformation, and 3. Ending – a memorable conclusion.
- Creative Writing Inspiration & Writing Prompts Pinboard : Explore our meticulously-curated Pinterest board of creative writing tips, quotes, evocative images, and inspiration.
- Visual Inspiration: Paris : A collection of photographs we took during our stay on the Île Saint-Louis, the little island in the center of the Seine in the heart of Paris. The images showcase the beauty and wonder of the city, capturing hidden alleyways, old graveyards, and secret gardens that are often missed by tourists. For writers, the page offers a wealth of visual inspiration to help spark new ideas for stories and settings.
- Fairy Tale Writing Prompts Inspiration : A collection of fairytale-esque images to inspire new ideas and spark creativity by using the power of visual storytelling.
- Finding Creative Writing Inspiration in Old Newspapers : Looking through old newspapers can help you immerse yourself in different experiences and perspectives, uncover hidden stories and forgotten tales, and gain a deeper understanding of the culture and values of a particular time period.
- Speak Your Stories : Explore all the ways using dictation software can improve the writing process: generating new ideas, freeing you from self-censorship, creating natural-sounding prose, relieving eye strain and hand cramping, and more.
- Burroughs Cut Up
- Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
- Stream of Consciousness Writing
- Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses
- The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin
- Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
- The Collage Technique of Anaïs Nin
- Automatic Writing
- Writing and Altered States
- OULIPO
- History of Experimental Literature
- Origins of a Dub Fiction
- Cobralingus Engine - Metamorphiction Process
- How to make a modern novel
- Nature Inspiration : a collection of beautiful nature images and quotes as writing prompts and inspiration for creative writing.
- Nature Writing Prompts : Nature's poetry is written in the stars, the flowers, and the rivers. Let our prompts be the pen to transcribe it.
- Nature Writing Quotes : Step into the wild and embrace the wisdom of nature with this collection of nature quotes, curated in the spirit of Thoreau's musings on the simplicity and beauty of the natural world.
- Nature Thesaurus : provides synonyms and related words for nature-related terms to help writers expand their vocabulary.
- Nature Writing News : Latest news about nature-writing.
- Cut Up Machine : The Cut-Up Machine is a generator that mixes up the words you enter in a form, inspired by William S. Burroughs Cut Up Method and the Dadaists. This creates new and often surprising juxtapositions of words that can inspire creativity.
- Mix Me With : Mix your text with the author dictionaries, genre dictionaries, or the entire English dictionary to find new ideas and word combinations.
- Word Combination Generator : This text permutation tool will generate all possible permutations of the text you enter.
- Sentence Tree : Reorder sentences into a series of columns, like the branches of a tree.
- Text Weaver : Weave the words from sentences vertically.
- Malapropism-o-tron : Enter your text and click 'GO' The Malapropism-o-tron will edit your writing and replace words with malapropisms, mondegreens, & spoonerisms.
- Word Braid : Enter words in the 3 fields. The generator will braid each line of the 3 fields together.
- Word Count Generator
- Word Frequency Counter
- Word Cloud Generator
- Nature Writing Thesaurus
- NaNoWriMo Word Count Meter
- Story Dice : Roll the dice to get 6 different words - a setting, a character, an object, an action, an emotion, and an adjective. Use all of these words as prompts to write a story.
- Neverending Story : Add a line to the neverending story - started in 2000!
- Tarot Reading Writing Game : Use a Tarot Reading to flesh out characters, come up with plot twists, and character conflict. Tarot readings can be a powerful tool for writers looking to generate ideas for their creative work. By interpreting the symbolism and meanings of the tarot cards, you can access your subconscious mind and tap into a rich source of inspiration and creativity.
- Blind Finish-the-Story : A modified version of the popular writing game where at least three players take turns adding to a story on numbered index cards, creating a surreal dreamlike tale that can inspire or be used for fun.
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