Nine.frenchboys.net - An interesting site with all kinds of random generators, including:
Medieval Name Generator
Fantasy Name Generator
Character Description Generator
Place Name Generator
City Generator
Stronghold Creator
Fantasy Place Name Generator
Fantasy Novel Titles
Plot Twist Generator
And more …
Some of these could be good starting points for writing exercises.
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Writing Resources, Fiction, Fantasy, Creative Writing on September 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
FullBooks.Com is another site that provides the entire text of thousands of books online. A few days ago, I posted about ReadPrint.com, a similar site that offers novels and short stories and poetry. FullBooks.com has more than just fiction, and it’s catalog is huge. One thing I don’t like is you have to find the […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on September 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been reading up on sites like Associated Content to determine if it’s worth a writer’s time and effort to submit content to these types of sites. Associated Content (AC) is a Web site where you can earn money by submitting content, whether text or photos or video or whatever. They accept pretty much any […]
Filed under: Writing Resources on September 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
AP - “A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder.”
Read the full story …
Filed under: Literary News on September 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My site was having some database issues last night, so if you visited the site and saw an error page, that is what was happening. My host has resolved the problem now, and everything looks good. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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The Forbidden Library has a list of books that have either been challenged or banned, whether currently or at some point during the past. This list includes novels such as:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Cantebury Tales
Catcher in the Rye
Don Quixote
Fahrenheit 451
Grapes of Wrath
Hamlet
King Lear
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Raisin in the Sun
The site also gives […]
Filed under: Fiction on September 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On this date, September 17th, in medieval history:
879 - Birth of Charles III (The Simple), King of France
1179 - Death of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
1271 - Birth of Wencenslaus II, King of Bohemia
Filed under: Medieval Timeline, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on September 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
911 Writer’s Block: An interactive site to help you break writer’s block. Press a number for help with a particular area of writing. Exercises include: settings, characters, dramatic entrances, dialogue, commiserate, verbs, calisthenics, killing off a character, endings, and more.
*image retrieved from associatedcontent.com, credit to Writer’s Association
Filed under: Writing Tips, Writing Resources on September 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A while back, the Modern Library composed a list of the 100 greatest novels of all-time. Its top ten included:
ULYSSES by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
CATCH-22
DARKNESS […]
Filed under: Fiction on September 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is not medieval related — it’s actually pre-medieval — but I enjoy archaeology and found this article interesting (except for the blurb at the beginning about the Bible being fictitious).
The ten artifacts mentioned include:
The Grooved Spheres
The Dropa Stones
The Ica Stones
The Antikythera Mechanism
The Baghdad Battery
The Coso Artifact
Ancient Model Aircraft
Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Impossible Fossils
Out-of-Place […]
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