Rissa's Writing Resources

[RZA]

RISSA’S WRITING RESOURCES

A massive collection of webpages, guides, and tutorials that I’ve collected throughout the years.

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Inspiration First

There are many more places to draw inspiration from, these are just ones I frequently visit.

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• Google
• DeviantArt
• Pinterest
• ArtStation

• Personally, I think a lot of people underestimate the power of google and just how much it's capable of. One thing that I've learned when it comes to searching for pictures: simplicity is key.
  
• Pinterest is a wonderful site & with its boards, a person can store picture references for any story.
  
• Please respect the wishes of the artists on DeviantArt and ArtStation and if stated, do not use their pictures for anything but inspiration for your writing.
  

Worldbuilding:

Holly Lisle’s How Much of my World do I Build?


Chuck Wendig’s 25 Things You Should Know about Worldbuilding


Victoria Strauss’ An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding


Veronica Sicoe’s Top 5 Worldbuilding Must Haves


Need help creating fictitious pantheons? Well look no further

• Elfwood has a nice tutorial on how to create a pantheon.
  
• Inkwell Ideas has a great guide written by Joe Wetzel and has tons of other links in the sidebar.
  
• I highly reccommend anything from TVTropes, like this short but informative page.
  
• Springhole has a very interesting page (with links to more tutorials) on creating fantasy pantheons.
  
• This page has interesting views on crafting a pantheon and is well worth the read.
  
• This is an interesting read on the creation of your fantasy world.
  
• A great reddit page where the OP talks about the creation of pantheons.
  
• A guide focused on the creation story of your world helping design it’s belief system.
  

A few links regarding ConLang Creation:

1. Council of Elrond » LotR News & Information » How To Create Your Own Language
   
2. The Language Construction Kit
   
3. Create a Fantasy World | Worldbuilding | Language | Fantasy Scroll
   

Highly Recommended Generators:

• TheForge : fantasy name generator
  
• Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.
  
• donjon; RPG Tools
  
• Seventh Sanctum: the page of generators - random tools for art, gaming, writing, and imagination.
  
• Country Name Generator For Real And Fantasy Country Names!
  
• City Generator
  
• Chaotic Shiny - Writing and RPG-Related Generators
  
• Random Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Speculative Fiction names Generator - Springhole.net
  
• Totro, the Fantasy Random Name Generator, Version 1.21

Writing Magic:

• Sanderson’s First Law
  
• Sanderson’s Second Law
  
• Sanderson’s Third Law of Magic
  
• Magic creation guide
  
• How To Worldbuild Magic: Short Rules for Real Worlds | Holly Lisle: Official Author Homepage
  
• On The Definitive Rules For Writing Magic (Or, Some Shit My Writers’ Group Made Up One Night)
  
• Write A Functional Magic System / So You Want To - TV Tropes
  
• How to Create a Rational Magic System
  
• Fantasy Fiction Factor - Creating Believable Magic
  
• How to Write Magic and Powers: Making (and Breaking) Your Own Rules | Widbook Blog
  
• Worldbuilding: Magic & Technology

Some random but well worth the read links:

1. A great link regarding progress in Fantasy Settings
   
2. A guide on creating Realistic Fantasy Animals
   
3. A long guide on how to Create Your Own World
   
4. Fantasy Scroll has a three part guide on creating your own fantasy world here.
   
5. WriteWorld - WriteWorld is a wonderful place to find inspiration and tutorials on many things writing related.
   
6. You can find a list of everyone they follow here, for even more inspiration.
   
7. WriteWorld's Writer's Toolbox has tons of resources.
   
8. Clevergirlhelps has a wonderful masterpost of writing links.
   
9. This page has a small collection of links that are quite useful.
   

Hope y'all find these links as useful as I have!

 

[Dusky]

Hey, this really does look helpful; I immediately noticed the worldbuilding for lazy writers bit, haha. I'll have to remember to come back to this and give it a more thorough read! Thanks for putting the effort into making this!

 

[ArcticViolin]

Thank you for your post!

 

[Historical Storyteller]

Holy shit, those pictures in ArtStation are so good. Thank you so much, man! I'll be sure to use them for my RPs when I need 'em and I'll also take a short look at the other posts too.


Damn, those posts are so elaborate... I think... I'll... read them later.

 

[RZA]

Holy shit, those pictures in ArtStation are so good. Thank you so much, man! I'll be sure to use them for my RPs when I need 'em and I'll also take a short look at the other posts too.
Damn, those posts are so elaborate... I think... I'll... read them later.

Yeah ArtStation is a wonderful place to gather inspiration, just remember to respect the wishes of the artists! And lmao, I think they're all a bit elaborate. Ya definitely need some free time to read em through.