| Merriam Webster | thesaurus and dictionary. |
| OneLook Dictionary | and Thesaurus |
| Vocabulary | |
| Words-to-Use | contextual synonyms. |
| The Free Dictionary | |
| Tip of My Tongue | find the word you can't remember. |
| Rhymezone |
| Erowid | trip reports |
| Drug Times | drug info |
| Havocscope | drug/blackmarket info and prices. IT FINALLY WORKS AGAIN!!!! (if it doesn't work, just try the wayback machine :3) |
| Diversity Style Guide | |
| One Stop for Writers | dictionary for emotions, themes, and so much more |
| Scarleteen | sex education |
| Writing Realistic Injuries | |
| Writing upper arm prosthetics | good read through if you want to write a character with upper arm prosthetics |
| Writing With Color | good blog with tons of stuff. i have some specific posts linked around |
| EADeverell | creative writing blog |
| Challenging Fatphobic Language in Writing: Some Alternative Vocabularies | |
| Springhole.net | writing tips, roleplaying advice, random idea generators, etc etc |
| The Sifter | food throughout the history of the world |
| Yardsticks | book in the open library. about kids, so if you're writing a kid it might help |
| Resources for describing physical things | |
| Why knocking someone out is cheap and some alternatives | by howtofightwrite |
| Friends, Not Love Interests: How to Avoid Unintentional Subtext | amanormativity is real like actually. |
| little_details (forum) | "Little Details is a community that helps writers with their research and fact-checking. All types of fiction writers (professional, amateur, fanfiction, original, dungeon masters) are welcome to post questions. Our focus is factual accuracy rather than general writing advice." |
| Internet Move Firearm Database | Wikipedia but guns in media |
| Information that defines the knowledge, concepts, and skills students should acquire at each grade level. |
| How a Character’s Choice of Clothing Benefits the Story | by its-a-writer-thing |
| Muslim Character Questions Round-Up! | by WritingWithColor |
| Writing a Character with Magical Powers | by ancwritingresources |
| Personality is the most important thing about your character. | by thecharacterchick |
| Pilot callsigns | fun names or nicknames for your characters that are vaguely insulting usually |
| Developing your Characters and Making Them Interesting | by Reference For Writers |
| Words for Skin Tone | How to Describe Skin Color | i legit use this all the time |
| phrontistery.info | |
| The Color Thesaurus | on WritingWithColor's blog |
| Tips and words for describing skintones for writers |
| A Poetry Handbook | by Mary Oliver (on Archive) |
| Modern Poetry | open Yale course |
| Writers Helping Writers |
| Readable | rates readability. |
| Hemingway Editor | is another readability rater. |
| LanguageTool | this is like grammarly but free (no stupid account required) |
| PaperRater | proof reader, grammar check, and plagiarism detection |
| Purdue OWL |
| StimuWrite 2 | writing app for neurodivergent people |
| The Official Written? Kitten! | shows you a picture of a kitten when you hit your target words. if you add ?search=dinosaur to the URL, it shows dinosaurs instead. you can mess around with that to show different pictures. |
| Pressbooks Self-Publisher | Publish a digital book here :P |
| DND Character Generator | |
| Fantasy name generators | NOT JUST FANTASY. TONS OF STUFF. |
| Seventh Sanctum | character generator |
| Chaotic Shiny | a bunch of generators. good for all sorts of things |
| big fat list of names | oh yeah thats a big fat list of names |
| backstory description generator | generic backstory to get the ideas rolling |
| Leaving a second kudos on Ao3 | fun html codes to leave in comments on ao3 |