User blog:Deathwalker 13000/Writing Resources

Just thought I'd share some of the helpful resources I've used over the years... dunno if you guys plan on ever using any of these, but they've helped me out greatly from time to time...

Descriptive Thesaurus Collection
http://writershelpingwriters.net/thesaurus-collections/

This one used to be on an older blog that disappeared a few months ago, formerly called the Bookshelf Muse... I was pretty relieved to find it resurrected here. Out of all of the provided resources, the Setting Thesaurus has probably been the most helpful to me.

Power Thesaurus
https://www.powerthesaurus.org/

I used to use thesaurus.com, until I found this site. It's crowdsourced, and often offers hundreds of synonyms per word. On thesaurus.com, you'd be lucky to get 10-20 synonyms.

FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Freemind is a VERY powerful and easy-to-use mind-mapping program that's free to download. I've used this before in the past to help organize story ideas.

Novel Writing Help
http://www.novel-writing-help.com/

While the author of this site focuses some of his topics on things we may not need, such as formatting and publishing entire novels, he provides great advice on topics such as developing characters and ideas.