1. https://b-ok.lat/ - a site to download a myriad of books, popular and unpopular, classic and modern, poetry and prose, etc. it’s free, all you have to do is sign up with your email and download. the only “problem” is you can only download 10 files every 24 hours.
2. https://donjon.bin.sh/ - great site to get fictional names for characters, worlds, towns, deities, and more.
3. https://www.fantasynamegen.com/ - fantasy name generator. there are 10+ options including human/generic names, “evil” names, “Asian-like” names, elf names, reptilian-like names, town names, and surnames. there’s also the option to pick whatever length you want your fictional name to be.
4. https://www.babynamesdirect.com/ - another site for fictional names but only for characters. it gives you the name and some meanings behind the name. there are options like Indian names, Greek names, English names, German names, French names, Iranian names, an more. You can also choose whether you want names with the meaning of a word [example, names that mean ‘rose’ or ‘blue’ or ‘bird’], names that contains something [like a letter or a part of another name], and names that ends with something [a specific letter].
5. https://www.everydayknow.com/500-fantasy-surnames/ - a list of 500 fantasy surnames
6. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/897751-list-of-powers - a list of powers [I found on goodreads] for a fictional character.
7. https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-surnames.php - another fantasy surname generator. you can’t have “too many” of these to be honest.
8. https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ - a fantasy map generator. if you have names for your countries and cities but have no idea how it would look on a map, give this a shot.
9. https://www.writerduet.com/ - a site for screenwriters. you already have the format down and the font, you just gotta write.
10. https://www.artbreeder.com/browse - I’ve never used this one and can’t use it yet but I saw someone talk about it on TikTok and saved it. From what I got, it’s a site to create a visual of you fictional characters, and probably find references since there are so many beautiful characters to look at.
11. https://www.listchallenges.com/ - here, they give you lists of novels, movies and manga to read. I use this whenever I need a new BL to read, but you can find other stuff here, like a specific list of classic American novels and classic English novels, or classic films of the 70s and 40 best feel good movies. try it out.
12. https://www.chilternpublishing.co.uk/ - a company that published beautifully covered novels notebooks.
13. https://pomofocus.io/ - a pomodoro site, not just for readers and writers but for students as well.
14. https://www.lexico.com/explore/archaic-words - a list of archaic words you might wanna add to your vocabulary or your WIPs.
15. https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ - free text-to-speech site for those who are tired of reading their work and want to hear it for free. some words may sound off but it’s still usable.
16. https://www.sparknotes.com/ - this one would most likely be used more by students, but sparknotes is really, really good. i only use it for literature when I need to read the original and the translations of pieces, but there are other subjects, like math, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, poetry, psychology, and others.
17. https://www.lexico.com/explore/literary-words - another list of words you might want to add to your vocabulary and/or use in your WIPs.
18. https://www.juniperbooks.com/collections/antique-leather-books-1 - another company that publishes and sells beautifully covered books.
19. https://fortelling.web.app/#/ - a site to plan out your novel.
20. https://www.eastonpress.com/ - yet another company that publishes beautifully covered novels.
21. https://wordsworth-editions.com/collections/collector's-editions - of course, another company that published beautifully covered novels.
22. https://www.storyplanner.com/ - a great site to plan out your novels and scripts. you can also work on your loglines, synopsis, chapter plans, the setting of your novel and character plan. i really like this site so i would recommend it to all my writers out there.
feel free to add your own. i might come back and add more when I stumble across some other great sites.
Hello, my children, so now I’m in full panic mode about NaNoWriMo and I want to get a plan together. I figured I’d give a little ramble and some advice because that is what I am skilled at.
First things first imma try to write a full brief for my story, chapter by chapter, today. I might not get it all done but I shall be putting the effort in. I think not leaving it til the last minute is a good idea. (I plan every little detail- don’t feel pressured if you aren’t doing anything with the fic idea, this is just how I am).
Second I figured I’d say what websites I’d be using to battle through the month. There’s a few I use and they made my life a lot easier last year.
1. The NaNoWriMo Website
Get an account, tell people about your fic and track your progress, I haven’t explored it as much as I could but it’s a really helpful site.
2. Fighter’s Block
This beauty stops me getting distracted since I’m on a countdown to defeat the monster. You can change the speed, the damage attack, so you can get a pace that works for you. You can pause it if you need to but fear not if you run out of time, the writing doesn’t go anywhere. If you’re thinking you can also hold down an arrow button on your computer, and that keeps the bar full. So yeah, we like this website a lot.
3. Notebook.ai
There’s a free option and a payable option. Both need you to make an account but they never ask for your card details or anything like that. It’s a nice little website for world-building, character making, and keeping track of important items and locations. Paying for it gets you a ton of other pages, but I’m happy with the free version.
4. Pacemaker
This little gem really helps you keep track of your progress. Set your target, your work rate, and voila, it’ll do the rest itself. You can set it out in a couple of ways, e.g. graph or table, and you can set it so that, if you miss a day, it shows you how you can get back on target. It’s really nice to see yourself making progress on it.
5. Hemmingway App
This is for after the big write, where you can edit your stuff. I don’t by any means follow every single thing it highlights, but it highlights a lot of useful things, like adverbs, passive voice, long sentences, stuff like that which you might want to tighten up. I treat it like that fresh pair of eyes.
So yeah, the theory is with these sites I shall be unstoppable and rule the world. Let’s see how that one goes. YEE HAW!!!!
Hi! I've been an online sw for 7 months now. I have a couple of questions. My first one is about Tumblr, is it possible for someone to make a post on most common or hashtags that would get posts more viewed with all the sexworker hashtags? My other question is, is it possible to get like a list of names if places you can sell online? Like a list of websites. And maybe tips and tricks to better market yourself? Thanks so much 🖤
Sorry for the delayed response; I recommend looking thru my personal selling blog (here) to see what I tag my posts with. I generally tag them with “kik” then go thru the alphabet & click all that apply when suggestions pop up-- “kik a” (kik adult, adult kik) “kik b” (kik baby, kik babygirl) “kik s” (kik seller, kik selling). If you’re not using kik to make contacts you really should be.
I made a post (here) regarding sites I use for advertising my kik username. I’d say I get most of my traffic from kiksexting & reddit-- kiksexting seems to get the quickest hits but there’s a huge potential for time wasters so just be concious of that. Guys will DEFINITELY try to waste your time and keep you hanging by a thread. If it sounds too good to be true and nothing happens within 48 hours-- block them. They’re wasting your time. Absolutely DO NOT SEND anything naughty until that money POSTS in your account. Don’t accept their screenshots as proof of SHIT.
Here are some other sites that may be helpful, you may more may not fine them lucrative but if anything.. it gets your name out there: (most of these websites you have the ability to block people from certain states/regions)
Here are some miscellaneous helpful sites I wanted to share! Didn't feel like bothering with a banner pic for this, since there's only 3….
https://getemoji.com/
get emoji is handy site where you can get emojis for sites that don't have build in emoji support, such as tumblr. just find one on the big list and click on it to copy it to your clipboard, then paste in your post! Only downside to the site is that it will whine about your ad blocker, you can just close the message though.
https://old.reddit.com/prefs/blocked
The page for unblocking people on reddit was a hard one to find, so once I finally found it I was sure to keep a bookmark. Why would you want to unblock someone? well, the idiots who made the site only let you block 1000 people, and and if some new asshole shows up talking shit on your posts you may want to swap out some old douche-bags for the new one.
https://keep.google.com/#home
While google is at best a super-shady company, I do enjoy this feature of theirs, as it is a note taking app you can download for an android phone so you can write down ideas and reminders when your not home. Then when you do get home, you can get on your PC and go to the google keep web page where all the notes you took will be available to easily copy and paste to a document, saving you the trouble of having to manually copy down notes.
