Resources

The following are potentially useful sources of information related to Quoll Writer and writing in general.

Writing & Writers

• Cover art archive
• The People History from 1800 to Present day
• 25 things you should know about plot
• reddit - Writing
• Mass noun
• Grammatical gender
• Readability test
• The Top 10 Reasons to Self-Publish (Infograph)
• Questionnaires for Writing Character Profiles
• Random Story Title Generator
• Phonaesthetics
• Picaresque novel
• Author Web Sites and Forums
• Quotes About Literature
• 7 Traits of Enduring Characters
• 6 Ways to Break Writer's Block
• Aussie Slang
• Rhotic and non-rhotic accents
• Dictionary of Victorian slang
• Mary Sue
• The Ultimate Freelance Writing Career Guide

Writing tips

• Joss Whedon's top 10
• George Orwell's 5 Rules for Effective Writing
• Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules
• Neil Gaiman's 8 Rules of Writing
• List of writing rules

Writing prompts

• Writer's Digest (over 100)
• creative writing prompts (around 350)
• Creativity Portal (000s)
• writing prompts (lots)

Background images

• Guy Sterling's beautiful images
• Space images
• National Geographic
• HD Wallpapers
• When all else fails... ask Google

Interesting links

In no particular order.

• Garden path sentence
• Grandfather clause
• Taman Shud Case
• Catacombe dei Cappuccini
• Finden's Vintage Ronson Lighters
• Friendly Floatees
• Russian family cut off from outside human contact for 40 years
• Inert gas asphyxiation
• Trypophobia
• Jabuticaba
• Mendelian inheritance
• Samson Option
• Realism
• Romanticism
• Operant conditioning chamber
• Consistory
• In medias res
• Teleological argument
• Multiverse
• Proprioception
• Graphene
• Ovitz family
• Pescetarianism
• Immanuel Kant
• Temple Grandin
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Gordian Knot
• Precession
• Medieval Sunstone
• Holocene
• Rube Goldberg machine
• Red tide
• Abyssal Plain
• Cosmological principle
• Fresnel Lens
• Ecchymosis
• Infographic Directory
• Earth porn (pictures of the magnificence of nature)
• Bully Pulpit