Links!
For those of us writing about women warriors, the website Women in Reasonable Armor has beautiful pictures for inspiration.
Another place for inspiration is this list of fiction curse words--some ideas for making up those fun curse words so often seen in science fiction lit.
To help with diction, check out Wordle. You can paste in text and it creates a word cloud where greater prominence is given to more frequently used words. Good for seeing what words you are using too often. And one of the wonderful things is that you can remove common words like "and" or "the".
One of the downfalls is that it can point out things like the fact that one of the most common words in your ms is "like". I need to look into that.
Wordle is also a great tool for teachers to create word banks, personal word walls, etc.
And I know these have been blogged about time and time again, but since we are on the subject of fun things to do while you should be writing, check out these as well: The Gender Genie and I Write Like.
New blog alert! For the Love of Contemporary focuses on contemporary YA. There are already a few book reviews up and it sounds like a lot of wonderful/interesting posts are planned for the future.
Finally--my only link re writing assistance this week--Writer's Digest has a question and answer session with Donald Maass, James Scott Bell and Christopher Volger about Story Structure.
WiP Update/ CP Updates
Ah..I'm still moving very slowly on my WiP. But I'm at 6ok, which means I should be getting to the end at some point here.
My CPers are working away as always. Marie has been polishing, polishing, polishing her WiP for the Colorado Gold Conference. She is pitching--but she won't know for sure to which agent until she gets there. Good luck Marie!
Gina has been in the query trenches for a few weeks now--riding the ups and downs that are part of the experience. Hop on over to her blog and give her some support!
9 comments:
Still no word on my full. But praying like my life depends on it!
Wordle looks awesome, I'll have to give that a try.
Wordle was lots of fun! I have a problem with the work "like" too. I tried I Write Like and it told me I write like Anne Rice. Now if only I could get published and sell books like her! Thanks for the links and have a good weekend. :)
Wordle is a favorite revision tool of mine. I've discovered many overused words that surprised me by plugging in a chapter of my MS. Around is a personal favorite.
I never heard of Wordle. It looks fun, though. All the best with your WIP.
Bookmarked the link to the curse words. :)
I saw a neat word cloud that made up a map of the world.
Congrats on reaching 60K.
Gina--Let me know when you hear!
Christine--Anne Rice? Interesting--I've never gotten that one!
Angelina--Wordle is new to me--but I can already see that I am going to be using it a lot!
Ladonna--Thanks! Wordle is fun. And useful.
M Pax--Thanks! A word cloud in the map of the world--that is very cool!
I recently discovered Wordle as well and it's a great tool. The other links are awesome as well. Thanks for sharing them.
Well done on the 60k!
I love the look of wordle, it looks like a good tool - as well as making words look pretty :-)
Ugh, I'm moving slowly on my WiP too. Only a few thousand words behind you, but it feels like I'll NEVER get there. I will, and I know you will too.
I did Wordle for TT - "Eyes" was my big problem. Oops. :)
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