After discovering the website Stumble Upon and initially using it purely as a tool to promote my Triond articles, I have now found it to be a great site which has directed me to many interesting and helpful things on the world wide web. Here are some websites I have discovered through StumbleUpon which are excellent for helping writers.
This site gives advice and tips on every aspect of writing, including naming characters and bringing settings to life in fiction, writing non-fiction and help with understanding the actual business side of writing and getting published. Well worth a look if you are passionate about words and the things you write.
This website contains a database of over 3200 words which are troublesome to both readers and writers. Well worth using as a reference point if you are unsure about the difference between affluent and effluent, or want to know whether you should use affect or effect!
3. www.webook.com/911writersblock/topic:Writing
Set out like a payphone, this is a fun site which attempts to cure any storytellers with writers block. Each number on the keypad corresponds to an element of a story (for example “dial” 1 for ’setting’ or 3 for ‘dramatic entrances’), whilst it is largely designed for fun who knows; maybe it will give you the inspiration to write a classic!
After the Deadline is a free download which uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions. This applies to spelling, style, and grammar and it is compatible with the vast majority of word processing packages and writing websites.
Is an online thesaurus with a difference:instead of finding single words it finds phrases. It works by generating a list of phrases and sayings related to a word which you have typed into the “intelligent search function” and its results are pleasantly surprising. The website claims to have access to the largest database of English language phrases and sayings available on the Internet.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Thanks for these! I have checked out at least one of the links and it looks pretty interesting. Great article.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:11 am
This is a very helpful post. It should be more popular.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
That’s very interesting.I will check some of these out.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Thanks for sharing these.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:16 am
This is a really great article with some really great information. Thanks for sharing.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Awesome. Thanks for sharing these sites.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am
This is a great list for any serious writer. A serious writer who can have fun writing, too.
http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/money-and-the-writing-of-sexy-short-stories-on-triond/ is one of my popular articles on Triond.