Resources
Fun Links
While the Internet is a great tool for doing story research, checking out writer bulletin boards and keeping up with market news, it's also a great way to while away the hours! If you have some time to kill and like discovering offbeat sites, take a look at some of these.
- Anagram Maker - Type in any word or phrase and get dozens of anagrams.
- Baby Name Wizard - Graphs baby names by date and popularity.
- Cool-reads - Find out from tweens themselves what books are cool.
- Creative Quotations - Search 50,000 famous quotes.
- Easy Bib - A free, automatic bibliography and citation maker.
- Folk and Fairy Tales - Everything from the Brothers Grimm to Native American legends to hilarious modern parodies.
- Gender Genie - Type in a paragraph you wrote yourself and it will use an algorithm to predict your gender.
- Holiday Spot - Ever wonder what holidays they celebrate in the Czech Republic? Who declared Easter a holiday? Find out in this exhaustive list.
- Idiom Site - A list of common idioms and what they mean.
- Reverse Dictionary - Type in a description or concept, and it will list all related words.
- Rhyme Zone - Type in a word and get one-, two- or three-syllable rhymes.
- Time Capsule - Get an instant "time capsule" summary of any date in history.
- Word Counter - Is your writing repetitively redundant? Paste it into Word Counter to see which words you used over and over.
- Word Spy - Ever heard of iCrime? Netroots? Check them out on this "word lover's guide to new words."