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