Need some help creating some character names? Check out these useful sites that have very interesting tools to generate names and do research on names:

• 20000-names.com
• seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php
• lowchensaustralia.com/names/generators.htm
• rinkworks.com/namegen

Trying to recall a magical quote from your favorite book? Wondering who else has used the character name ‘John Hoggins’? Google’s new Book Search feature allows you to do this and more.

Try it out at Google Book Search

A great resource for any writer. Common English language mistakes or misconceptions are included in detail. Some examples:

• oversee/overlook
• palate/palette/pallet
• ran/run
• sail/sale/sell
• taken back/taken aback

Much of the content is online here: Common Errors in English

Lot’s of practical tips on becoming a writer, such as:

Stop talking about your novel or short story ideas and start writing. Get in the habit of writing for at least an hour every day, no matter what. One strategy is to get up an hour earlier than you have to, make yourself a cup of coffee and completely focus on your writing.

Read more at 52 Projects

Doing your writing on a Mac? Learn some of these shortcuts to boost your productivity:

Text
?A move to beginning of paragraph
?B move one character back
?D delete character to right
?E move to end of paragraph
?F move one character forward
?K delete text to end of paragraph
?N move to next line
?O insert newline
?P move to previous line
?T transpose characters
?? delete word to left
?? delete word to right

Text Field
?? move one word left
?? move one word right
?? move to beginning of line
?? move to end of line

Text View
?? move up one page
?? move down one page
?? move to beginning of line
?? move to end of line
?? move to beginning of view
?? move to end of view

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