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helpful sites for writers

i have a little collection of websites i tend to use for coming up with ideas, naming people or places, keeping clear visuals or logistics, writing basics about places i've never been to, and so on. i tend to do a lot of research, but sometimes you just need quick references, right? so i thought i'd share some of them!

  • Behind the Name; good for name meanings but also just random name ideas, regardless of meanings.
  • Fantasy Name Generator; this link goes to the town name generator, which i use most, but there are lots of silly/fun/good inspo generators on there!
  • Age Calculator; for remembering how old characters are in Y month in Z year. i use this constantly.
  • Height Comparison; i love this for the height visuals; does character A come up to character B's shoulder? are they a head taller? what does that look like, height-wise? the chart feature is great!
  • Child Development Guide; what can a (neurotypical, average) 5-year-old do at that age? this is a super handy quickguide for that, with the obviously huge caveat that children develop at different paces and this is not comprehensive or accurate for every child ever. i like it as a starting point, though!
  • Weather Spark; good for average temperatures and weather checking!
  • Green's Dictionary of Slang; good for looking up "would x say this?" or "what does this phrase mean in this context?" i love the timeline because it shows when the phrase was historically in use. this is english only, though; i dig a little harder for resources like this in other languages.
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One of Oda's great unappreciated talents is his ability to keep his world and story consistent even as the scope outgrew his original plans by several orders of magnitude. I think there's enough in Thriller Bark to know that Oda always planned for Kuma to be a secret Revolutionary, but I doubt anything but the broadest strokes of his backstory was hammered out until much later. The Eleven Supernovas, and thus Bonney, weren't even conceived until Saboady, and even if you wanted to say that Oda already knew Kuma let himself be turned into a robot because he had a kid, he had to twist the threads of the story to turn Bonney into that kid.

To be perfectly honest, Kuma during his introduction is a whole lotta smoke. All the reader knows is his moniker and that he had the reputation for committing atrocities. That's as close to a blank slate as you can get while still building hype, and that blank slate lets Oda slot in whatever he feels is appropriate once he gets to the point where Kuma's backstory is important. That flexibility is a wonderful tool, but Oda's careful to keep the old consistent with the new, and that's enormously difficult when writing serialized fiction over a period of 25+ years

#one piece#Oda is a master writer#I wish I had half his talent
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