This guide was mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Other sources are listed. Compiled by Joshua Sowin
unifies all HTML and images etc. into one file. The tool creates a small Web-Server with the documentation embedded into the executable. - "the tool for pdf haters"
For the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project of the University of California at Irvine, a method for representing Greek characters in ASCII was devised, called Beta Codes.
are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points.
a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.
Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? Check it here
series of illustrations for The Book of Imaginary Beings was done by the graduate students in the Department of Illustration and Art of the Book at the Vakalo School of Art and Design in Athens, Greece.
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we hope you disagree with.
Sarcasm is usually innate; however, if you would still like to attempt developing this ability, your chances of success would be greatly increased if you are intelligent, or at the least not mentally incapable of detecting and reproducing sarcastic remarks.
A simple test of whether something is only incidentally sci-fi, or not sci-fi at all despite being in a sci-fi setting, is whether the story could take place in a known society without changing its message.
The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. They started in USA where the internet had also started of course. In Japan, the Smileys(Emoticons) grew in different manner from U.S.A. Now, there are several kinds of them.
A copy of Aestheticism's very useful guide to sound effects in manga. Originally designed to explain onomatopeia in their Yu Yu Hakusho doujinshi that featured Chibi-Hiei, it can also apply to any other manga out there.
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
Norse mythology, Scandinavian mythology, Viking mythology; all refer to the pre-Christian religion of the Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Danish peoples.