Post by 月老 on Sept 5, 2013 23:03:51 GMT -6
LIST OF RESOURCES:
GENERAL
- Arin I Isolde: limyaael.livejournal.com/ - a livejournal that is all about different types of world-building, story and plot ideas, archetypes, and rants on how to avoid or reconsider certain parts of developing writing.
- Tvtropes: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage - beyond being just a funny, tongue-in-cheek examination of tropes and stereotypes of writing, Tvtropes provides a long and comprehensive list of what kinds of ideas exist in fiction, what results come from them, and what tropes are often related to others in a work.
- The Writing Cafe: thewritingcafe.tumblr.com/ - a compilation of many writing resources on tons of different topics, from genre-writing, creating character personalities, to designing worlds.
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TESTS & PERSONALITY SHAPING
- Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test: www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm - puts the character through the grinder across multiple relevant genre archetypes and stereotypes.
- Similar Minds: similarminds.com/personality_tests.html - tens of different personality tests, from common name tests in psychology to lesser known ways of archetyping. Can be kind of fun to think in terms of character answers.
- Extensive Character Development Quiz: alahranadal.deviantart.com/art/Extensive-Character-Development-Quiz-300818700 - answered in-character, too. / . . . just wow, that would take your whole life to answer.i'll need to bookmark that
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
- Pearson Archetypal System: www.herowithin.com/ - more info on regular archetypes.
- 648 Personality Traits: ideonomy.mit.edu/essays/traits.html - divided into negative, positive, and neutral.
- Mythical Scribes: mythicscribes.com/category/character-development/ - generally about fantasy writing, in particular. This links out to character development articles, borrowed from the writing cafe.
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FUN STUFF & SIDE THINGS
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