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Game-Changing Sites for Writers

A recent search for a specific type of site to help me build new characters led me down a rabbit hole. Normally, that would make me much less productive, but I have found a treasure trove of websites for writers.

Bring Characters/Places to Life

There are a few different places you can use to create a picture of something entirely new. I love this site for making character pictures as references, instead of stock photos or whatever pops up on Google Images.

thispersondoesnotexist: every time you reload the page, this site generates a headshot of someone who doesn't exist. This is great if you're thinking about a character's personality or age and don't have specifics for their facial features yet.

Night Cafe: this is an AI art generator that takes your text prompt and generates an image for it. I tried it for various scenery, like "forest" or "cottage." It takes a minute for your requested photo to load, but no more than maybe five for the program to finish the picture.

Art Breeder: this website has endless images of people, places, and general things. Users can blend photos to create something new and curious visitors can browse/download those images without creating an account. (But if you do want to make an account to create your own, it's free!)

Find Random Places on Earth

You might prefer to set a story in a real-life environment so you can reference that place's weather, seasons, small-town vibe, or whatever you like. If that's the case, try:

MapCrunch: the homepage generates a new location each day and gives the location/GPS info in the top left of the screen. To see more images from previous days, hit "Gallery" in the top left.

Atlas Obscura: hover over or tap the "Places" tab, then hit "Random Place." A new page will load with a randomly generated location on the planet, provide a Google Maps link, and tell you a little bit about the place.

Random World Cities: this site makes randomly selected lists of global cities. Six appear for each search, although you'll have to look them up to find more information about each place. You can also use the site to have it select countries, US cities or US states too.

Vary Your Wording

Thesauruses are great, but these websites have some pretty cool perspectives on finding just the right words for stories.

Describing Words: tell this website which word you want to stop repeating and it will give you tons of alternative words that mean the same thing. It typically has way more options than other sites I use.

Reverse Dictionary: type what you need a word for in Reverse Dictionary's search box and it will give you tons of words that closely match what you want. It also lists the words in order of relevancy, starting with a word that most accurately describes what you typed. (There's also an option to get definitions for search results!)

Tip of My Tongue: this website is phenomenal. It lets you search for that word you can't quite place by a letter in it, the definition, what it sounds like, or even its scrambled letters. A long list of potential options will appear on the right side of the screen for every search.

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Hope this helps when you need a hand during your next writing session 💛

executive dysfunction sounds like a fucking lie, even the ones who suffers from it think it's just some stupid excuses they make for not putting enough efforts, and the whole thing doesn't make any sense either!

" I can't do thing because brain stops me from doing it "

LIKE WHAT. WHO WOULD BELIVE THAT

my favourite genre of fictional men are those ones who should be cool and badass because of their powers or character designs, but are pathetic instead. never had a good day in their life. an insult from a child could probably make them cry. wet paper bag men. you know the ones

Me and my mutuals

The chapters on We Free The Stars is Zafira and Nasir having the LOVLIEST AND SOFTEST interaction and the next is Altair having an absolute crisis, being doubt's whore, and just feeling absolutely and utterly lonely. thats it. rinse repeat. i love the cycle- LIKE ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY SEEING THE DIFFERENCE ON EACH CHAPTER LIKE YAA. THIS MAN IS MISERABLE !! THE OTHERS BE HAVING THE ABSOLUTE BEST TIME OF THEIR LIVES TAKING NAPS, BEING NAUGHTY AND SHIT IN A PALACE WHILE ALTAIR CRIED WITH HIS PRISON RAT ALL ALONE IN THE DARK-

Imagine being a person who experience the world differently and never being believed by anyone and now, that very person experienced shit called executive dysfunction like ah yes, by the grace of the universe this life of mine has blessed me with another enormous humongous jajargous fuck truck that I have to handle all on my own in this weak body which has torn and shreds into nothing but a pile of old dangly swiggly rotting skin

and I AM MORE ANGRY PISSY POOPY because I can TRULY UNDERSTAND that no one would believe me. because executive dysfunction sounds like a huge lie. Like if someone were to tell me that they can't do anything because their brain says ' no ' that it tells me to just ' wait ' .. I would grab the largest harpoon and stick it to their butthole like skewers so they can have a more believable reason that they can truly do no shit

whaAT IS THIS CURSE

anime_irl

me: hey do you think i could do this work

adhd: hmmmm no :) you’re going to plan an entire novel in your head and think about nothing but how excited you are to write it :)

me: okay well i finally have some free time now, so do you think i could write the novel:

adhd: sorry i forgot to mention, you’ve just forgotten every thought you ever had :( also your motivation is dead now lol

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