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Apologies for the missing day, my brain has wandered off on holiday.
Anyway, how did today go for you?
I know we have talked about favourite writing resources before, but we have some new faces and possibly new resources so let's do it again. What is your current favourite writing resource? Online, offline, doesn't matter! (though we would like links it it's online! :D )
Anyway, how did today go for you?
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I know we have talked about favourite writing resources before, but we have some new faces and possibly new resources so let's do it again. What is your current favourite writing resource? Online, offline, doesn't matter! (though we would like links it it's online! :D )
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Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 01:00 (UTC)One of my favorite writing resources is the Online Etymology Dictionary at http://www.etymonline.com/. Most of my stories take place in an older time period, so I want to be sure my vocabulary is proper for the period. This site helps me avoid using words that are too modern -- and is also helpful in finding alternatives for those modern words. Another site I have open when I write is http://thesaurus.com/. When I can't think of a word or when I need an alternative to a word I am using too often, I go to the online Thesaurus and I'm all set.
Another resource I can't live without when writing is Jarte (go to http://www.jarte.com/ to find out how this word processor works). It's the perfect word processor for me for writing, because I like having things open in tabs and it installs on a flash drive for portability. I found out about it through this community and I've never used anything else since.
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Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 02:31 (UTC)Since I write a lot of Harry Potter, one of my favorite resources is The 50 Commonest and Rarest British Surnames. Invaluable for naming the OCs that flesh out the stories. And because it's an obsession for me to put my stories in a real place, I use Google Maps extensively. A place with a good-sized river and some steep-ish hills within an easy hour's broom-flight of London? No problem.
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Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 08:18 (UTC)My favourite writing aid is written? kitten. The kittens are pretty motivating.
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Date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 12:23 (UTC)I sometimes use LibreOffice (it's free) http://www.libreoffice.org it is similar to OpenOffice. I have it for when MS Word craps out on me. I also have Jarte, think that's been mentioned already.
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Date: Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 14:01 (UTC)My favourite fandom-specific resources are these wikis:
Harry Potter: the HP Wiki and the HP Lexicon.
Star Trek: Memory Alpha, for definitely-canon Film & TV details and Memory Beta, for not-quite-canon details from spin-offs, books and games.
And for general research, I like these comms on LJ: fanfic_med (medical and injury advice), military_beta (for current and historical military details), and little_details (for everything).