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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 next writing session 💛

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tf? bring it back i want to see every single note down to the thousandths place

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https://open.spotify.com/track/33C67kok8ta8ZtYNrsXIZN?si=6TDys57eT02to5_EcuOBPQ

oh my god this is like . . . ascending-to-another-plane viva la vida

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oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my g

“ The Unholy Trinity, and all that. They're so . . . ” He vaguely waved around his flask as if to summon the right words. “Idolised. And for what? ” - all the falling sins by @hellshores

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I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

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(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

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[ID: a photo of three hands clasping, with the hands labelled DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY and YYYY/MM/DD. The centre caption reads 'today is 2222']

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it rained beer and my smile turned upside down

it sunshined wine and my miles turned a clown

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THIS IS GORGEOUS IM SOBBING

the unholy trinity – all the falling sins by @sinshots-and-saintshit

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reblog if your name isn't Hans.

2,121,566 people are not Hans and counting!

We’ll find you Hans.

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may your 2022 be dark academic and homoerotic

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Type these words in the tags and see what comes up:

op

wait

mom

up

really

need

tho

dude

we

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w-what is this

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JHSDFKJ NOO

Sally sells #switch by the sea shore.

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why is it so normalised to be sad and depressed and tired all the time like that is not okay why do we make jokes about being sad all the time as relatable why is sleeping later at night considered cool why is self deprecating humor so common these days

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“Same line as before, but new subtext.” is my favorite.

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i can already tell that jack is to wylan as kit is to jesper and i just think that's beautiful