Fantasy Author Research GuideHappy Friday! Or Thursday, depending on your time zone (I was born on a Thursday, so I’m especially fond of Thursdays!)

Here’s a couple of fun writing tools (although, if you’re anything like me, they may well distract you from actually writing!):

NameThingy

http://namethingy.com/

Random name generator. Can generate people names, place names, gibberish, and more. Also good for generating interesting user names for online dating sites…

(Note from Day: Maybe I need to have a talk with Jen about that last one)

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The Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000 (from the “Wondermark” comic, by David Malki at wondermark.com)

http://wondermark.com/554/

Provides a flow chart of how to get from there to here, and even what to call it. There’s also an automated version: http://fictiongen.boxofjunk.ws/

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Jen Stevens lives in Washington, DC and works in Northern Virginia. In between, she writes fiction and listens to BBC Radio 4 podcasts. Her most recent book (with Dorothea Salo) is
Fantasy Authors: A Research Guide (Author Research Series)