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60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers

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Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore. Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their way to professional success will appreciate this list of useful search applications that are great from making writing a little easier and more efficient.

Professional

Find other writers, publishers and ways to market your work through these searchable databases and search engines.

Litscene: Use this search engine to search through thousands of writers and literary projects, and add your own as well.

Thinkers.net: Get a boost in your creativity with some assistance from this site.

PoeWar: Whether you need help with your career or your writing, this site is full of great searchable articles.

Publisher’s Catalogues: Try out this site to search through the catalogs and names of thousands of publishers.

Edit Red: Through this site you can showcase your own work and search through work by others, as well as find helpful FAQ’s on writing.

Writersdock: Search through this site for help with your writing, find jobs and join other writers in discussions.

PoetrySoup: If you want to find some inspirational poetry, this site is a great resource.

Booksie.com: Here, you can search through a wide range of self-published books.

One Stop Write Shop: Use this tool to search through the writings of hundreds of other amateur writers.

Writer’s Cafe: Check out this online writer’s forum to find and share creative works.

Literary Marketplace: Need to know something about the publishing industry? Use this search tool to find the information you need now.

Writing

These helpful tools will help you along in the writing process.

WriteSearch: This search engine focuses exclusively on sites devoted to reading and writing to deliver its results.

The Burry Man Writers Center: Find a wealth of writing resources on this searchable site.

Writing.com: This fully-featured site makes it possible to find information both fun and serious about the craft of writing.

Purdue OWL: Need a little instruction on your writing? This tool from Purdue University can help.

Writing Forums: Search through these writing forums to find answers to your writing issues.

Research

Try out these tools to get your writing research done in a snap.

Google Scholar: With this specialized search engine from Google, you’ll only get reliable, academic results for your searches.

WorldCat: If you need a book from the library, try out this tool. It’ll search and find the closest location.

Scirus: Find great scientific articles and publications through this search engine.

OpenLibrary: If you don’t have time to run to a brick-and-mortar library, this online tool can still help you find books you can use.

Online Journals Search Engine: Try out this search engine to find free online journal articles.

All Academic: This search engine focuses on returning highly academic, reliable resources.

LOC Ask a Librarian: Search through the questions on this site to find helpful answers about the holdings at the Library of Congress.

Encylcopedia.com: This search engine can help you find basic encyclopedia articles.

Clusty: If you’re searching for a topic to write on, this search engine with clustered results can help get your creative juices flowing.

Intute: Here you’ll find a British search engine that delivers carefully chosen results from academia.

AllExperts: Have a question? Ask the experts on this site or search through the existing answers.

Reference

Need to look up a quote or a fact? These search tools make it simple.

Writer’s Web Search Engine: This search engine is a great place to find reference information on how to write well.

Bloomsbury Magazine Research Centre: You’ll find numerous resources on publications, authors and more through this search engine.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus: Make sure you’re using words correctly and can come up with alternatives with the help of this tool.

References.net: Find all the reference material you could ever need through this search engine.

Quotes.net: If you need a quote, try searching for one by topic or by author on this site.

Literary Encyclopedia: Look up any famous book or author in this search tool.

Acronym Finder: Not sure what a particular acronym means? Look it up here.

Bartleby: Through Bartleby, you can find a wide range of quotes from famous thinkers, writers and celebrities.

Wikipedia.com: Just about anything and everything you could want to look up is found on this site.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Find all the great philosophers you could want to reference in this online tool.

Niche Writers

If you’re focusing on writing in a particular niche, these tools can be a big help.

PubGene: Those working in sci-fi or medical writing will appreciate this database of genes, biological terms and organisms.

GoPubMd: You’ll find all kinds of science and medical search results here.

Jayde: Looking for a business? Try out this search tool.

Zibb: No matter what kind of business you need to find out more about, this tool will find the information.

TechWeb: Do a little tech research using this news site and search engine.

Google Trends: Try out this tool to find out what people are talking about.

Godchecker: Doing a little work on ancient gods and goddesses? This tool can help you make sure you have your information straight.

Healia: Find a wide range of health topics and information by using this site.

Sci-Fi Search: Those working on sci-fi can search through relevant sites to make sure their ideas are original.

Books

Find your own work and inspirational tomes from others by using these search engines.

Literature Classics: This search tool makes it easy to find the free and famous books you want to look through.

InLibris: This search engine provides one of the largest directories of literary resources on the web.

SHARP Web: Using this tool, you can search through the information on the history of reading and publishing.

AllReaders: See what kind of reviews books you admire got with this search engine.

BookFinder: No matter what book you’re looking for you’re bound to find it here.

ReadPrint: Search through this site for access to thousands of free books.

Google Book Search: Search through the content of thousands upon thousands of books here, some of which is free to use.

Indie Store Finder: If you want to support the little guy, this tool makes it simple to find an independent bookseller in your neck of the woods.

Blogging

For web writing, these tools can be a big help.

Technorati: This site makes it possible to search through millions of blogs for both larger topics and individual posts.

Google Blog Search: Using this specialized Google search engine, you can search through the content of blogs all over the web.

Domain Search: Looking for a place to start your own blog? This search tool will let you know what’s out there.

OpinMind: Try out this blog search tool to find opinion focused blogs.

IceRocket: Here you’ll find a real-time blog search engine so you’ll get the latest news and posts out there.

PubSub: This search tool scours sites like Twitter and Friendfeed to find the topics people are talking about most every day.

[tast3of1nk]

     I can’t argue with that. If Merrin was the one chosen for this mission, I would’ve been the first to put my hand up. He’s my brother, and I love him more than anything in the world.

          ↳ Del & Merrin from Cursed Queen

[paper-shield-and-wooden-sword-d]

ASONIP Moodboard: Iluk’ka Brakirltor - manipulator | survivor | witch

The woman dressed in golden silks laughed high and light, the afternoon sun glinting off of her witch eye. She took a moment to compose her face carefully. 

“Perhaps you misunderstood me.”

Iluk’ka took a tight grasp of the man’s wrist and pulled him closer. Her smile was predatory, the glimmer on her teeth fading to reveal that they had been sharpened into points. Her voice grew low.

“I have come for my favour.”

[mangowriter]

Did I make a character banner for my NaNoWriMo WIP? YES I DID.

This is Sabrina Carlyle, the main character to Project Ghost (or A Snowdrop for the Pain– Still a working title). She’s a governess during the Victorian era and is an absolute sassy blast to write for. And! And! she needs no damn man to thrive! Well… not at the moment, at least. 

Sabrina can be morally ambiguous for the most part unless it comes to children or the “family unit”. She’s loaded with a tragic backstory™ and weird quirks. Like “I SEE DEAD PEOPLE,” kinda quirk if you know what I mean. 

Anyway, yup, that’s Sabrina. And I love her. 

Sabrina Carlyle | 21 | Female | Character Tag | WIP Tag | WIP Page

[niva-writes]

The Lucid Realm // Karen Choi

“The flame ran along her forearm. Her skin wasn’t melting and she didn’t feel pain. Only exhilaration.”

tl: @teacupwriter

[fragmentedink-archived]

NANOWRIMO DAY SEVEN EXCERPT 

tagging: @incandescent-creativity @golden-eyed-writer @elliewritesstories @kclenhartnovels @forlornraven @reeseweston @idreamonpaper

[teacupwriter]

⟾ opening credits theme for my wip The Lost Country ⟽

(apropos of nothing except my desperate need to laboriously craft soundtracks for every single thing I write)

[kowlazovdi-archive]

“And Valeska’s words, her accusations, he didn’t know what to make of them. If he could only sit her down, explain to her that she was wrong. The people who made this palace their home were Yechovka. They could no more betray the country than they could sign their own death warrants. Royalty, nobility, they all existed to serve the empire and ensure that it prospered. But, she was only a half-literate peasant girl, it was wrong of him to expect her to understand the machinations of court. Not when it was a world so far removed from the one she had known.”

— Deaths Hand

[teacupwriter]

nanowrimo 2018 - project intro

ya historical fantasy | magic, intrigue, wlw romance and a giant dog

synopsis (revised)

On an alternate earth, where atmospheric currents of ‘magic’ allow humans to sense each other’s emotions, western Europa has suffered a magic drought for over a century. Plagued by disease, unrest, and devastating thunderstorms, they’ve all but forgotten they ever had magic.

And the one place that escaped the drought has been lost to the outside world, for the past one hundred years.

Trapped inside the tiny, isolated country of Amnexia, Sorospen Osta can only wonder what the Outside is like. Nothing and no one, save for necessary supplies, are allowed to cross the mountains that surround them.

So when an injured, half-frozen Outsider lands on her doorstep, Sorospen is reassured by the fact that her pledge Keperin, best friend bound for life by compatible magic, knows everything there is to know about the Outside.

But just when she needs him most, Keperin has disappeared.

Sorospen will do anything to find her pledge and bring him back safe, even if it means joining forces with the Outsider. Together they begin to uncover the secrets that Amnexia was designed to keep hidden, and Sorospen must reckon with the truth: there may be no ‘safe’ to go back to.

wip page | wip tag | my nano account (add me as a buddy!) | nano tag is #teacup attempts nano so you can blacklist if you like ♥︎

[tag list below the cut - please let me know if you’d like to be added or removed, no questions asked!]

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[niva-writes]

The Lucid Realm // Lana Remas

“Her eyes still felt open even when her lids were closed. The visions were so vivid, she felt as though she was losing one sight to another.”

tl: @teacupwriter

[katabasiss]

WIP Moodboard: Presque Vu (via @katabasiss) 

“I want to tower over heaven and have my name drip like blood from the tongues of mortals. I want it evoked, I want it cried - I want it worshipped”

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[vviciously]

—moodboard: joker blue (a nano wip) 

doom were the jesters. and doom were the driisk brothers. they were thunder crashing in the foundations of the earth. an earthquake ripping aside the skeleton of the world. they were three. 

their father thought they were two: red and black. the joker’s in a deck of cards. wild. distinguished. 

their mother knew they were three. red, black and blue. and maybe, the third joker, the third brother, the joker blue, was the fire trapped inside the skeleton, buried beneath rock and stone and mountain and sky. 

maybe, just maybe, he was the one his father should have feared. 

[niva-writes]

The Lucid Realm // Camilo Rojas

“He could taste and hear and smell what they were feeling. He barely had the chance to confront his own feelings before he was inundated with everyone else’s.”

tl: @teacupwriter

[carumens]

my dash is pretty dead right now. do you know of any other writeblrs?

hey!!! here are some of my favorite writeblrs. they have the most interesting wips and a very different vut stunning writing styles (i am a mess so i’m probably leaving someone out, im sorry if i do!!)

@katabasiss @omgbrekkerkaz @annaalexiswrites @theforgottencoolkid @the-ichor-of-ruination @crimescenedwrites @melissaswriting @syposium @hazeywrites @coffeeandmidnights @endymions @writing-kimmi @kowlazovdi @delphwrites @niva-writes @nerocael and im probs missing a lot!!

[niva-writes]

The Lucid Realm // Yael Jordan

“The ink slid off her fingers. She watched in awe as the ink made images across her journal all on its own. Images that were in her head.”

[realashergray]

NaNoWriMo Day 1: “Suitcase”

So I’m going to be doing some short prompts each day hopefully, to try to stretch my author muscles before I finish the last little bit of my novel. Please enjoy!

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The bedroom door is ajar, and beyond it is a hallway Alvah knows almost as well as his own. Somewhere beyond that door, David is. His room may be bare and nearly lifeless, but his eyes. His eyes.

Alvah didn’t know what it meant for eyes to “sparkle” before. Now he does. And he’s happy for David, he really is, but…

Three suitcases on the bed. Small and green, large and made of worn leather, and purple, canvas, full-to-bursting. Is this everything David is? Is it really so easy to pack up his whole life and leave?

The bedroom door is ajar. Alvah can remember when that became a rule, when they stopped being allowed to close it. It had been his fault. Maybe if he hadn’t opened the door, David wouldn’t have been able to slip away. Maybe it’s his fault that David is leaving.

The door swings open and David enters. His eyes gleam with his future prospects. He had always been a good student- much better than Alvah- so it hadn’t been that much of a surprise when he made it into Brown. Now, he is positively marinating in his own success. And Alvah truly is happy for him.

He just wishes David would be successful a little closer to home.

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Hope you liked it! See y'all tomorrow for the next one!

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NANOWRIMO DAY #3 — Update: 5,904 words.

“What’s good, Eaton?”

Iris shot Des a grin as she shifted the helmet against her hip. “You gonna tell me why your dad pulled me out of my night cycle to suit up?”

“You weren’t even in your bunk.” One of the helmed men swiveled his head to look at her. Chester, from the sound of it. “You were in the mess, stuffing your face.”

Rather than calling him a liar, Iris gave a bark of laughter before settling back down into her wolfish smile. “Sounds like I might have been enjoying my last meal. How was yours? You still dating that girl up in Sector C?”

Chester slugged her in the arm, but didn’t say anything in response.