Snowflake Challenge 2020: Challenge 11

[armanya]

Challenge #11
In your own space, recommend a fannish or creative resource.

First of all, I want to rec Fanlore, because I feel like a lot of fans aren't aware that it exists? From their Wikipedia page: Fanlore is a wiki created to preserve the history of transformative works, as well as that of fans, and fandoms, with a focus on people and their activities rather than on fandom canon. It is owned by the OTW.  It's an awesome research for learning about fannish history (or, you know, nostalgia tripe). They also have a Dreamwidth Community at fanlore, for news and announcements. 

For writing resources, I specifically want to highlight OneLook Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus. "This tool lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept." I'm not exaggerating when I say that this has saved my sanity! All those times you just cannot think of the right word as you are writing, this site is real good at finding that word for you (as long as you can find words to describe what you want lolol). 

I also want to rec little_details, which is an excellent fact-checking community for writers. They have a 10+ year archive of tagged posts so chances are you can find the info you need, and if not, it's a great place to ask!

And because I like to share, here are some of my bookmarked pages and posts which I find especially useful for writing fic:

Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

Format, Paragraphs and Pacing: All the Boring Crap that Makes a Fic Readable

An Easy Guide to Writing a Kick-ass Summary

Ten Simple Ways To Get More Attention For Your Fanwork

A Users’ Guide to AO3 Tagging 

Entitlement? In a sense

On Writing AUs

Historical resources for fanfic writers

Tips On How to Write Characters with Wings (For both fanfic writers and original content writers)

Resources For Writing Sketchy Topics

How to Write Pain

How To Write Magic

Let Your Characters Lie

Writing: Characterization and Body Language

Writing smut for the non-smut writer

1001 ways to write an orgasm

Make it Hot 

Smut 101: The Geekfiction Guide to Getting It On...On the Page 

[writing] why do you think the 'net was born? porn, porn, porn!

Workshop – Fic Soundtracks: Unite Rhythm With Words

And this Tumblr post about the best way to cuddle to warm up someone with hypothermia. Look, you never know when you need an escuse for characters to cuddle, right? :P

Yeah, I know the challenge said "a fannish resource", but I know this is the kind of challenge that's going to be fine with my over-enthusiasm. And I hope people might find these as useful as I do! 

Comments

[unavee]

I started clicking through a few of these and they seem like useful tips! Thank you.

[littlelostcat]

Did I just bookmark basically every link here? Yes I did. Thank you!

[paulamcg]

I clicked on a couple of these links, and now I came back to save a link to your post! I’ve never seen tips like these, and they can turn out really useful. Thank you for sharing!

[armanya]

You're welcome!

[armanya]

You're welcome! Glad my obsessive bookmarking can help others. :)

[armanya]

You're welcome! I'm not much for writing rules and such, but I do enjoy these sort of tips for particular topics. I'm glad they could be useful for someone else, too!