Kay's Resource Blog

A sister blog to Kay's Sims. Hey I'm Kay, I'm genderqueer and use they/them pronouns. Go here to look for resources. transgender pride!!

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Finding Insurance for Transgender-Related Healthcare

The following are insurance companies that do not have blanket exclusions for trans* related healthcare as reported by HRC.  While some of the links leading to details within their coverage plans are dead and some links lead to outdated policies this is still a great point of reference.  While shopping for insurance policies it is best to call and see what they offer when it comes to trans* healthcare.

Aetna:

Coverage for “Sex Reassignment Surgery”

Amerihealth: (link now dead)

Coverage for “Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) for Gender Identity Disorder (GID)”

Anthem BCBS:

Coverage for  “Gender Reassignment Surgery”

BCBS Massachusetts:

Coverage for “Transgender Services”

BCBS Minnesota: (link now dead)

Coverage for “Medical and Surgical Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder”

BCBS Michigan (Blue Care Network HMO): (link now dead)

Coverage for “Transgender Surgery”

Cigna

Coverage for “Gender Reassignment Surgery”

EmblemHealth: (link now dead)

Coverage for “Gender Reassignment Surgery”

HealthNet:

Coverage for “Gender Reassignment Surgery”

HealthPartners: (link now dead)

Coverage for “Gender Reassignment – Minnesota Products”

Independence Blue Cross: (link now dead)

Coverage for “Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) for Gender Identity Disorder (GID)”

Medica:

Coverage for “Adult Gender Reassignment Surgery”

Source: http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/finding-insurance-for-transgender-related-healthcare

[sexmind]

GOOD NEWS INDEED! Since we are currently on beta we decided to let everyone download the app free of charge, we will be releasing the update soon ( and we will have both the paid version and the free version ), but for now, this version is free for you to try out, be our tester for this app and help us improve it!

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS APP IS STILL ON BETA IT WORKS ON CERTAIN ANDROID VERSIONS AND IT WILL BE BUGGY ON SOME OTHERS, ALL YOUR FEEDBACK IS VERY WELL APPRECIATED, IF YOU RUN INTO ANY ISSUES, LET US KNOW AT [email protected] ( PLEASE SPECIFY WHAT ANDROID VERSION AND PHONE YOU ARE USING SO WE CAN SUPPORT IT ON THE NEXT RELEASE ) doing this is better than reviewing it on the android store, so please send your feedback through that email, it will get a much faster response.

Also, For those of you who have already purchased the app, you can either get a refund from the store itself or wait until we release the new paid version and you will get it for free (even if it costs more)  AND PLEASE, if you have troubles with the refund, let us know at [email protected] and we will make sure to refund you for your purchase, even if it is just 99 cents.

It may take a few hours for the google play store to update, but we already did the request to make it free, so stay tuned and follow back!

[sexmind]

MCALC the first Gender Neutral Menstruation Calculator.

Mcalc started off as an idea to create a menstruation calculator app that could be used by anyone regardless of their gender, this way our app keeps the trans* and genderqueer community in mind so they can enjoy the features without being constantly misgendered (as with other apps).

Our new app is still in BETA so we appreciate any feedback you can give us at [email protected], we try to solve as many bugs as possible in as little time as we can so please, let us know if anything is not working properly.

What is Mcalc?

Mcalc is a new menstruation calculator app, it tracks your period and keeps you updated on your current status and any upcoming important events of your menstrual cycle

How does it work?

Simple! just provide the app with some basic information about you and your cycle, Mcalc will calculate the rest, taking your personal context into consideration. Afterwards you can set alarms and even log relevant events.

What features does it have?

-Neutrality Guaranteed: We understand that sex and gender identity are not the same, because of this, we designed our app so it can be used by almost everyone. Mcalc is 100% gender neutral and it won’t assume anything from you while using it.

-Notifications: Mcalc will keep you updated on the important dates of your menstrual cycle, it’s built in alarm system will allow you to set notifications you care about.

-Adaptation: We all have different needs, and Mcalc can suit them accordingly, it will only display the information relevant to your purposes and won’t nag you with irrelevant data. Using Mcalc on “sex mode” will help you reduce your risks of getting pregnant when having sex for fun, while setting it on “baby mode” will help you increase your chances of getting pregnant when planning one.

-Tracking: Mcalc lets you keep a log of your activity for later reference, it’s as simple as tapping a date in our calendar and tick the events that happened that day to save them for further reference.

-Information: Discover new things about menstrual cycles by using Mcalc’s informative pages.

You can learn more about mcalc by visiting our website: http://sexmind.com/mcalc-en/index.html

Or you can go to the app store and download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Sexmind.Calculator

GET MCALC TODAY!

*************************VERY IMPORTANT EDIT****************************** Due to the ammount of feedback and notes we have had we want to make a few announcements: Features that we will include in the next version or upcoming updates:

-BUG FIXES: We will try to support more android versions as well as fixing the current bugs on the supported ones ( such as being unable to set a weight over 150lbs and other minor bugs we found on supported versions ) -Tablet version: We will adapt our app so that it can also be used on android tablets

-“Neutral mode/All info mode”: We will add a new mode that is completely neutral to your purposes with the app, that way you can view all the information without Mcalc asking if you are looking to get pregnant or if you are just having sex for fun ( This way we become more inclusive with the Asexual community and every person who just wants to keep a track on their period)

-IOS VERSION!!!!!!!: DUE TO THE HIGH DEMAND WE WILL LAUNCH (in the next couple of days) AN INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN TO FINANCE THE IOS VERSION, PLEASE STAY TUNED AND FOLLOW SEXMIND ON TUMBLR SO THAT YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR PROJECT AND HELP US SIGNAL BOOST TO MAKE THIS A REALITY FOR IOS PHONES.

we will make all further announcements through our main tumblr, so please follow back if you are interested. sexmind.tumblr.com

[1-800-mattress]

Tumblr Tips

last updated: 15 April 2012

Here are some useful extensions, scripts, and tutorials for Tumblr. Scripts require a simple, one click install for Google Chrome. Firefox users may need to download Greasemonkey first before installing scripts.

As far as I know, these scripts/extensions can work together. 

I’ll add more links as I think of them, and feel free to share your own tips or resources. 

Popular:

Missing E - Probably the most popular Tumblr extension. Features: one click reblog/queue/drafts, automatically clears all tags when reblogging, adds tags to ask/reply, allows one click reply to comments, shuffle queue, adds timestamp to posts on your dashboard, replaces text (reblog, notes) with picture icons, and more. Downside: Tumblr apparently hates Missing E, and will try to scare you into disabling it.

Xkit - Similar to Missing E. Some additional features: Unfollower check, shorten long posts on dashboard, highlight key terms in posts, download mp3 from audio posts. 

Tumblr Savior - Blacklist tags that you do not want to see on your dashboard. Downside: Not everyone tags.

Some selections from a larger collection of scripts (please note that I don’t use all of these, so I don’t know which ones still work):

Tumblr Life - Quick links to sort your dashboard by content (photos, text, quotes, video, etc), adds keyboard shortcuts.

Tumblr Hate - Do you keep seeing the same post reblogged in your dashboard? This script lets you “hate” that post so you won’t see it again.

Tumblr Helper - Create post templates with common settings, add personal notes to users on your dashboard

Tumtaster - download mp3s from tumblr

Notification eraser - Maybe you have one post that keeps getting a ton of notes and you want the notifications to stop showing up in your dash.

Tumblr Stats - hover over an avatar to see a user’s stats

Block posts by source - self-explanatory

Don’t Ask - gets rid of ask posts on your dashboard

Make avatars bigger on your dashboard

Unfollower check

Edit tags from your dash

How to unfollow deactivated Tumblrs

Within Tumblr:

Tumblr Settings - Change URL, ask and submit options, enable replies, time zone settings. 

Tumblr Preferences - Dashboard preferences, email address and password reset. 

Tumblr bookmarklet

Tumblr Mega-Editor - mass edit your posts

Use old customize theme page

http://www.tumblr.com/show/photos (replace photos with other types of posts to filter your dash)

How to reblog by post type (reblog a post as text, link, etc)

Use “read more”

Tumblr Backup Application (for Mac)

View posts by date on a tumblr - http://username.tumblr.com/day/YEAR/MONTH/DAY [ie: 2011/12/31]

Tumblr Radar Archive 

Tumblr etiquette:

Tumblr etiquette faq

The difference between reblogging and reposting

How to tag properly

Your tumblr:

Best of your tumblr - find your most popular posts

Tumblr Stats - tells you about your tumblr

Tumblr Tags - view all your tags

Disqus - add comments section to your tumblr

Trntbl - listen to all the music/audio posts on a tumblr

Make a word cloud

Tumblr theme cutomization:

Make a blogroll

Theme recovery

Combine ask and submit box

How to add text to your ask page

More tumblr resources: tumblring.net - academyoftumblr - tutorialsandmore 

For visitors:

Statcounter

Google Analytics

Revolver Map

Users online / Visitor counter

Flag counter

Followers counter

Know Anon - if you are getting harassed by anons, you can use this to find out their identity

Tumblr Stalkr - see who doesn’t follow you, new followers, and unfollowers

For images:

Aspect ratio

Reverse image search

View all your tumblr images

Download your tumblr images

[ianthe]

ADHD + The Internet

Now also reachable at http://tinyurl.com/adhdlist !

Last updated: 20 August 2013

I think I’m gonna start maintaining a list of all the awesome things I find to help me manage my ADHD, so I can have them all in one place. Hopefully my journey of learning how to cope with my ADHD can help other people out too!

Anything I add to the list will be 100% free, because the last thing I’m going to do is ask my fellow ADHDers to try to manage their money for the sake of being able to manage their ADHD. That’s just not right.

Managing Distractions:

StayFocusd - Productivity extension that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day. Highly configurable.

KeepMeOut - Warns you if you visit a website more than once in a set period of time

RescueTime Lite - Helps you identify inefficiencies by showing you how you spend your time on the computer

Clearly/Readability/Instapaper - Tools to help make sites around the Internet easier to read and free from clutter

ZenWriter - Full screen writing program with customizable appearance. You can drag your own music into the program and have it create a writing playlist, and you can also change the typing sound! It autosaves and you can print straight from it. Great for minimizing distractions.

12 Hours of White Noise - YouTube video. Good for blocking out other distracting noises, fades into the background after a few minutes

SimplyNoise - Noise generator website with color sliders to change the frequency of the noise generated for different effects

Buddha Machine - Continuous loop of meditative sounds

TimeMe Looping Timer - My friend Oliver’s got a great post about how a looping timer helps to cut down on distractions and increase focus!

 Inattentiveness/Forgetfulness:

Tab Wrangler- Allows you to set a specific time (ex. 20 minutes) after which unused tabs will be closed. Keeps track of tabs that have been closed, but form data isn’t saved, which makes Lazarus a good companion extension

Page Snooze - Page Snooze can help manage tab overload by allowing you to snooze tabs for up to two weeks, after which they will pop back up in your browser

Lazarus-  Saves form data to eliminate those “oh #@$%!” moments when you accidentally close a tab or hit submit and get an error message

PhoneMyPhone - Put in your number, it calls your phone. It’s what I use when I misplace my cell phone, but you can also use it for reminders/wakeup calls!

Any.DO - Keep your to-do list handy and synced. Simple, elegant, effective.

Wunderlist - Free to-do list app and website that syncs your lists to the cloud and has the ability to share tass with other people to help you get more done! Replaces Astrid. Astrid is shutting down August 5, make sure you export your data! 

Chrome Notepad - Simple notepad that syncs with Chrome that I’ve found really helpful for just keeping track of all the things I’m currently working on - I tend to start working on something, remember something else I’m working on, and forget what the first thing was for several hours

Motivation/Dedication:

SuperBetter - SuperBetter is a tool created by game designers and backed by science. Playing SuperBetter helps build personal resilience: the ability to stay strong, motivated, and optimistic even in the face of difficult challenges. Resilience has a powerful effect on health—by boosting physical and emotional well-being. Resilience also helps you achieve your life goals—by strengthening your social support and increasing your stamina, willpower, and focus. 

Beeminder - Goal software. Anything quantifiable works — weight, pushups, number of cigarettes, or how long it takes you to bike to work. Answer with your number when Beeminder asks and it’ll show your progress and a Yellow Brick Road to follow to stay on track. If you go off track, you pledge money to stay on the road the next time. If you go off track again, they charge you. (All right, this one’s not 100% free - but that’s on you!)

Fitocracy - Fitocracy’s mission is to make fitness a more fun, more addictive experience. Play Fitocracy to beat challenges, push your boundaries, and show your friends who’s boss. Get addicted to your fitness.

HabitForge - It takes at least 21 days to form a habit. HabitForge checks in daily by email to see how you did the day before. You can either “Go solo” or “Join a Group” of people who are working on a similar goal as you.

Written? Kitten! - Shows you a new picture of a kitten for every 100, 200, 500, or 1000 words you write! If that isn’t motivation, I don’t know what is.

Challenge Accepted - Challenge Accepted is a web-based productivity app for people who love the structure of role-playing games (RPGs). What structure do we mean? Quests, experience points, leveling up, skills, achievements… that sort of thing! Challenge Accepted takes all of those RPG trappings and applies them to your to-do list. The result? Your to-do list becomes a Quest Log, and you become a brave adventurer!

Chains.cc - Create a chain for any habit you want to keep up and mark it daily so you see the chain grow. You can customize the chain color and images!

Organization/Management:

Doodle - Website for easy scheduling. Trying to find a time to meet up for a group project with 5 other people? Have everybody fill in the times they’re available on Doodle, and then you can see what time would work best. Much better than bouncing emails and texts back and forth.

Evernote - Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. Save notes, web clips, files, and images, and sync all of these between all of your devices.

Mint - Pulls all your financial accounts into one place. Set a budget, track your goals and do more with your money.

Expensify/Expensify Web Receipts - Create receipts for your online purchases in two clicks. The Expensify Web Receipts extension uploads the current webpage as a receipt to your Expensify account, so you can do “expense reports that don’t suck!” 

Cacoo - User friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts.

draw.io - Another online diagram drawing tool

[kaysresources-blog]

oh, and fyi, to make text on a page bigger press ctrl & +

[shjtty-deactivated20131105]

the fact that you can’t highlight words that you accidentally caps locked and hit Caps Lock to get them lowercase is the reason i can’t sleep at night

[richwhiteboys-deactivated201604]

except that you can do that

then press shift + F3

congratulations

[nataliahdyer]

Masterlist of Writing Help for Writers

*always adding more

General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice

How to be Confident in Your Writing

Start Your Novel Already!

Why First Chapters Matter

How to Outline a Novel

Incorporating Flashbacks

Word Building 101

Common Mistakes in Writing

Tips on Getting Started

What Not to Do

7 Tips to Become a Better Writer from Stephen King

How to Use Reading to Become a Better Writer

Why Writers Must Read

How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers

31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing

10 Tips to Write Fanfiction

Writing a Blurb

10 Writing Tips

Perfecting Description

Point of View

Speed Up Your Writing

Recieving Bad News

Useful Writing Apps

Avoiding Clichés

Writing Lessons

Finding Inspiration

Plot and Conflict

What is Conflict?

Where’s Your Conflict?

Adding Conflict to Your Scenes

Guides for Using Inner Conflict That Makes Sense

Plotting Your Novel

Internal and External Conflict

The Top Ten Plotting Problems

The Elements of Plot Development

Plot Help

Writing a Plot Your Own Way

Plot Development

Develop a Plot

Tension and Conflict

Your Plot, Step by Step

Plot vs. Exposition

Plot and Conflict

Character Development

How to Describe the Body Shape of Female Characters

Character Apperance Help

Words to Describe Voice

Body Language Cheat Sheet

Character Development Exercises

101 Character Development Questions

Art of Character Development

Introducing Characters

Characters You Need to Reinvent

Making Characters Likeable

Heros and Villains

Describing Clothing

Understanding Body Language

100 Positive Traits

Mental Illness in Writing

Conflicts and Characters

Indifferent, Distant Characters

Bitchy Characters

Describing Voice

Being a Bitch

Heartless Bitch

Writing Nice Characters

Character Questionnaire

Mental Disorders

Writing Characters with Mental Illness

Writing Male Characters

Playing Male Characters

Breaking Sterotypes

Characters with Glasses

Rebellious Characters

Writing Female Characters

Writing Intriuging Male and Female Characters

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Placement of Speech Tags

Grammar and Spelling

Grammar Slammer!

American vs. British Grammar

HyperGrammar

Grammar Girl

Punctuating Dialogue

How to Use the Semicolon

Introduction to the Basic Rules of Punctuation

Comma 101

All About Dialouge

11 Grammar Tips

Comma Usage

Correct Use of Apostrophe

Proofreading

Transition Words

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation

Better Writing: Grammar & Spelling

Semicolons and Colons

Underlining and Italicizing

Dashes and Parentheses

Hyphens

Apostrophes

The Ellipsis

List of 1000+ Adjectives

All About Names

List of Names

100 Most Popular Names

Sci-Fi Names 

Sci-Fi Names Part 2

Name Berry

Behind the Name

Fantasy Name Generator

20,000+ Names From Around the World

Victorian Era Names

How to Choose a Name

Naming Your Characters

Give Your Character the Perfect Name

Name that Character!

10 Tips to Name Your Character

Genre Based

20 Tips to Writing Love Scenes

On Love And Sex

All That Sex!

Writing “Real” Men in Romance Fiction

Kissing

How to Write a Kissing Scene: Valentine Edition

How to Write a Kiss? And Should You Write Sex?

The Keys to Conflict

Writing Gender-Specific Dialouge

Things Smut Writers Should Know

How to Write a Sex Scene

3 Secrets to Writing Sex

Writing Love Scenes

Why You Should Write Love Stories

How to Write Horror

Horror Sub-Genres

Horror Plot Cliches

25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror

Plot and Character in Horror Fiction

7 Laws of Comedy

5 Secrets for Improving Comedy Writing

How to Break into Comedy

How to Be Funny

Mystery Writing Lessons

10 Rules for Mystery

Mystery Writing

Other

Word Count

Story Starters & idea Generators

Fifty Quick Writing Prompts

Write or Die

Writing Prompt Generator

Dictionary.com

Thesaurus.com

Oxford Dictionary

Spanish Dictionary

Medical Dictionary

Your Dictionary

A Bunch of Character Questionnaires

[theartoftransliness]

I want to come out as genderqueer to my mom, but i don't really know the best way to do it. Any advice?

Zak: My guess would be that you’ll need to start by defining what genderqueer means and educating your mom a little bit about what that means for you. You can do this in a lot of different ways, from watching a movie with genderqueer people in it (for instance, Gender Rebel) and then using that to open up a conversation with her about how you feel to writing her a detailed letter about it. It’s really up to you what method you use to communicate this to her, though, because you’re the one that knows your mom (and your relationship with your mom) best. If you think that she might respond poorly, I’d recommend writing a letter, though. This gives her a chance to think about things before she talks to you again and collect her thoughts, it also makes it more likely that you’ll be able to get all of the information you want to get out without being interrupted and can certainly also be less awkward. 

The most important things I think to include in the conversation with her or letter would be 1) what genderqueer actually means (for some help with this, check out genderqueerid). 2) what this actually means in your case, for instance, do you plan on going by a different name? Will you be going by gender neutral pronouns (this is a good resource about that if you need any help explaining about them), masculine pronouns, or keeping the same pronouns you’ve always used? Are you planning on having top surgery? Taking hormones? These are all important things to cover. 3) How you came to this conclusion, just a little bit about what some might call your “gender journey.” 

That’s my main advice. I hope it goes well! :) 

[fuckyeahwritelife]

Writer's Resources: Word Processors & Writing Programs (an incomplete list)

OpenOffice, a freeware replacement for Microsoft Word

Write or Die, a writing program to kill your writer’s block by punishing you for failing to meet your goals

ZenWriter, a no-frills distraction-free customizable word processor

Yarny, an online writing program to help you organize your novel and track your progress (and even self-publish)

Scrivener, like Yarny but more powerful and for your desktop

[alexandra-erin]

Word of warning on Write Or Die: As of the last time I used it, it didn’t have any kind of autosave feature. Which might give you some idea why it was the last time I used it. It’s better to help you get going than it is to do sustained writing in, especially with the settings that will eat your progress if you falter.

[madamethursday]

OH MY GOD. Writing software. LET ME TELL YOU MY THINKS ABOUT THIS TOPIC BECAUSE I HAVE MANY OF THEM. 

Written? Kitten! is a fun alternative to Write or Die if you like kittens, don’t need the time pressure on you and want something really basic. It does not, so far as I know, save your writing. But if you’re willing to cut and paste, it’s fun. And you can choose how many words you write before you get a new picture of a cute kitten (anywhere from 100 to 1000 words). 

I tried Write or Die. The time pressure actually made writing harder. The way my brain and my issues with attention work are such that I need to be able to sometimes take breaks and stop trying to control the whirlwind in my head for a little bit so that I can come back later when what I want to write is more congealed and easier to pluck out of said whirlwind.

I use both OpenOffice and Scrivener for writing - both fiction writing and other types (resumes/cover letters, stuff for school when I was in school, etc).

I like OpenOffice a whole, whole bunch because it does everything M$Office does without some of the shenanigans and it converts easily to .doc files and can open just about any format you need opened. I used it all the way through my paralegal studies course and never had an issue with professors being able to open and read my assignments. And when one of your assignments is basically a collection of the most important documents you use in civil litigation (complaint, summons, request for production of documents, interrogatories, etc), that’s important.

And you get the equivalent to the other programs like Excel and PowerPoint and so on and so forth. So you get a lot of bang for zero bucks.

Best yet? It’s free! It’s awesome! It works with Mac and Windows so far as I can tell. It looks nice and if you can use M$Word fairly well and aren’t afraid to maybe search for where a few of the functions are (because they’re not arranged IDENTICALLY to the M$ version of the program), you’re golden. It converts documents to PDF easily and without any big flubs so far as I can tell. 

Scrivener is something I’ve used through two different versions. It’s expensive, and it really is geared towards a more creative kind of writing (not necessarily fiction, but more creative and less business-y type documents). I wouldn’t do my schoolwork on this thing, but It’s a damn good program. Downside: it’s costly and also there’s no such thing as just opening a file and taking off writing with this program. Even the simplest type of document you can create comes with parts and pieces and bells and whistles.

Which is great when you’re organizing your materials and thoughts and plans for a novel or a master’s thesis or a short story or whatever. It’s awesome if you have to get pictures and character bios and bits and pieces of research in order. It’s also awesome because each chapter can be it’s own sort of mini document within the whole so you don’t need to scroll down through a long document to get to, say, chapter 21 because you need to edit out something. That’s super. 

BUT.

But if you really just need to sit down with a blank screen and type some words because your brain is just flooding you with stuff and you need to make sure they make it into the world, this isn’t your program. You’re better off going to Write or Die or something. 

So, in conclusion: I recommend OpenOffice just for general utility reasons that don’t even have to do with writing. I recommend Scrivener with caveats. Write or Die can go either way. Written?Kitten! is a lot of fun if you like kittens. Some people don’t, and that’s cool. They should have Written?(Insert Other Animals)? I’d love to see puppies or llamas or lizards or even just pretty nature pics. But anyway…

[nimblesnotebook-blog]

Writing References

Words and References:

Massive Dictionary for Writers

Writing a Series

Visual Dictionary

Grammar Definitions

Glossary of Book Terms (2)

Literary Terms

Some Words About Word Count

English Grammar (with Russian translation)

Pronunciations of Words from All Languages

Punctuation Guide

Plot Terms and Definitions

Plot & Structure:

Plot Development

Developing Events in Your Story

The Hero’s Journey

Four Essential Plot Points

Basic Plots in Literature

Ten Simple Keys to Plot Structure

Plot vs Exposition

Plot Checklist

Exposition in Fiction

Balancing Exposition

Easing Exposition

Setting or Exposition

3 Rules for Writing Endings

Writing Powerful Endings

Successful Endings

Writing a Story Middle

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (2)

Three Parts to Every Story

Subplots:

Subplots

7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to your Novels

The 7 Shoulds of Writing a Subplot

Who Needs Subplots?

Subplots

Knowing Your terms: Subplots

Weave Subplots into your Novel

Understanding the Role of Subplots

Plot, Plot Layers, and Subplots

Plot and Subplot

Subplots - Chicken Soup for your Novel

How Many Subplots are Acceptable?

Subplots by Word Count

Too Many Subplots?

World Building:

World Building Links

World Building Questionnaire (2)

Planet Maker

World Building 101

World Building for Science Fiction

Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

The Seed of Government (2)

The Magic of World Building

Characters:

Story Guide Worksheet

How to Create Great Characters

Character Arc 101

"Hero" is a Four Letter Word

Character Questionnaire (2) (3) (4) (5)

Character Justification

Conflict Can Limit Your Characters

Creating Characters from Plot

Character Bio

Guide to Writing a Villain

Eight Female Archetypes

Sixteen Personality Types

Charahub

Fixing Unlikable Characters

Offensive Mistakes Well-Intended Writers Makes (2)

Character Sheet

Morality Alignment

Morality Alignment Test (2) (3)

Creating Compelling Characters

Consistency is Key 

Desires and Conflict

Mary Sue Test

Mary Sue Villain Test

Writing Lycanthropy

Body Language (2) (3) 

Dialogue:

Character Conversations

How to Write Dialogue (2) (3) (4)

Speaking of Dialogue

Ten Tips

Character Dialogue

Believable Dialogue

25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue

Witty Dialogue Reference Post

Dialogue Tips

Writing Really Good Dialogue

Writing Good Dialogue

Dialogue

Point of View:

Types of POV

Point of View

Third Person Multiple POV

First Person vs. Third

Third Person Omniscient vs. Limited

Using Third Person Omniscient

Writing Exposition in the First Person

Writing in First Person

First Person POV (2)

First Person or Third?

How to Write Winning First Person Stories

Genre:

Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories

Crime Fiction Sub Genres

So You Want to Write Crime Fiction

How to Write Crime Fiction

Smut Writing Guide Master List

Adding Sexual Tension

How to Write Sexual Tension

Literary Genres

Genre Index

13 Horror Writing Tips

Classic Horror Novel Structure

10 Laws of Good Science Fiction

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

Names:

Irish Names (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Irish Surnames (2) (3) (4)

Scottish Names (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Scottish Surnames (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Welsh Names (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Welsh Surnames (2) (3)

English Names (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

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Find Names by Sound

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Italian Surnames (2) (3) (4)

Name Generator (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (Fantasy (2) (3) (4)) (Sci-fi (2))

Jewish Names (2) (3) (4) (5)

Jewish Surnames (2) (3) (4)

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Scandinavian Surnames (2) (3)

Spanish Names (2)

Pagan Names

Nook of Names

What a Lovely Name

List of Names from Around the World

Etymology Dictionary

Name Playground

What’s in a Name?

7 Rules for Picking Names

How to Invent Names

Nickname Lists (2) (3)

Latin Place Names

Name Dictionary

First Names Reference Database

Slave Trade Names Database

History:

1920’s Reference Post

1920’s Setting

History of Childbirth

1920’s Slang

Medieval Reference Post

Medieval Scotland

All About Scotland

World Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Knighthood and Orders of Chivalry

National Heraldry

Titles in the Elizabethan Era

Titles Explained

Peerage Basics

National Museum of the American Indian

American Indian Tribes and Languages Master List

Historical Resources

Query Letters:

How to Write a Query Letter

The 10 Dos and Don’ts of Writing a Query Letter

Anatomy of a Query Letter: A Step-By-Step Guide

Successful Query Letters for Literary Agents

Query Letter FAQ

Master the Art of the Query

Writing a Solid Query Letter

Writing a Query Letter that Sells

Dos and Don’ts: How to Write the Perfect Query Letter

Query Letters

Rachelle’s Query Tips

How to Query a Literary Agent

Query Letters

A Pitch is a Pitch

Make the Perfect Pitch: The Novel Query

How to Write Great Queries

How to Write a Query Letter

How to Query an Agent

How to Write a Dynamic Query Letter

Writing a Good Query Letter

Sample Query Letter PDF

Sample Novel Query Letter

Ten Ways to Hook a Literary Agent

What Not to Put in Your Query Letter

What (Not) to Put in Your Query Letter

Query Letters - What, Why, How?

What (Not) to do Before Querying

What to Write in the Bio Section of your Query Letter

How to Write a Bio Paragraph in your Query Letter

The Last Paragraph of your Query Letter: the Author Bio

Writing the Hook for your Query

Query Letter Dos and Don’ts

Agent Reveals Pet Peeves

How to Write a Query Letter

Query Letter Mad Lib

How to Format a Query Letter

15 Reasons Agents Pass Over Query Letters

The Right Way to Write a Query Letter PDF

Query Letters

Writing a Query Letter

The Query Letter

How to Write a Query Letter

How to Write a Kick-Ass Query Letter

How to Write a Great Query Letter PDF

Query Letter to Agents

Writing a Killer Query Letter

15 Resources for a Better Query Letter

25 Reasons Your Query Letter Sucks

Query Letters: My Personal Journey

How to Write a Query Letter

A Bit of Regurgitated Query Letter Advice

Query Letter Advice: Let Someone Else Write It

Writing a Query Letter Part One: The Hook

Part Two: The Setup

Part Three: The Conflict

Part Four: The Consequence

Part Five: Everything Else

The Importance of Voice

The Query Letter that Won Me an Agent

How Not to Write the Perfect Query Letter

FAQ The Query Letter

Query Letters

Editing and Revision:

Editing Checklist

List of Freelance Editors

Tighten Your Manuscript

Editing Recipe

7 Editing Questions

How to Rewrite

Revising a Novel

Editing Tips

Self Editing

How to Edit a Novel

Software:

Tip of my Tongue

Liquid Story Binder

Q10

25 Writing Softwares

Jarte**

AbiWord

Calligra

Celtx**

Open Office

Scrivener*

Final Draft*

Atlantis Nova

Zoho**

Lit Lift

Hiveword

Story Book**

Character Writer*

Write Room (mac only)

Dark Room

Q10

Liquid Story Binder*

Now Novel**

yWriter 5

Time Toast

Interactive Timeline

Timeline Maker*

Preceden

Tiki Toki**

Time Glider**

Timeline Maker

My Timeline

Timeline JS

X Timeline

Our Story**

Dipity

Timeline Software*

Timelines*

Meograph

Timeline Charts*

Family Echo

Genealogy

Legacy Family Tree Maker**

Family Tree Builder**

XY Family Tree

Bubbl

Cliche Finder

*Not free. May include free trial.

**Includes free and premium content.

Prompts:

Inspiration Finder

Seventh Sanctum

Writing Prompts Generator

Timeline Generator

Writing Prompts

Plinky

Random Story Prompts

Random Prompts

Prompt Generator (2)

Writing Prompts

14 Prompts

Writing Websites:

Galley Cat

Writer’s Digest

Absolute Write

Advanced Fiction Writing

Writer Beware

Chuck Sambuchino

Nathan Bransford

Novel Rocket

101 Best Websites for Writers

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ideas for a self care day:

sleep in and stay under the covers when you wake up, get very comfortable and warm

if you want to get out of bed, pick something cozy to wear

drink very cold water or hot tea

doodle aimlessly

read a book you love dearly

sleep some more

go outside, even if its just your backyard, and relax

look at tiny beautiful things like flowers and ants

listen to music that makes you want to dance and dance your heart out

pls be kind to yrself and yr body i love u

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