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I have a list of my credits/resources in the sidebar but it needs some updating as some sites have closed. Still plenty of graphic communities and resources however.
I'll choose some communities and sites to talk about here, mostly focused on writing.

writing communities:

getyourwordsout ;

ushobwri ;

smallfandomfest
bingo communities: where you write or make any kind of fanwork/original work for prompts

genprompt_bingo ;

allbingo As well as monthly themed bingo fests Allbingo also allows you to post completed bingos for other communities, so if you're using a list from a comm no longer running you have somewhere to post links to the fills.

Websites
etymology online for finding when words and phrases came into use and/or with their current connotation, very useful for any period piece

Behind the Name for looking up names by language or finding random names ; Nameberry has a number of list and generators and a search where you can specify letter, syllables, and origins ; Magic Baby Names s great where you choose names you like and it gives you ideas of others you might also find interesting. When you're naming a character this can be invaluable.
Fantasy Name Generators which has so many generators to give you random lists for anything from naming a b magical book to a Grishaverse character, to a modern Danish character to a restaurant name - or a river, or a mountain. Also with descriptions for everything from characters to plants to planents and flags e.g. The flag is made up of three horizontal stripes and a circle in light grey and brown. Their emblem consists of a twelve point star under tree, but the emblem is only shown on very special occasions. The emblem stands for their country's nature, their suffering and their bravery. Designed with role players in mind this is a great site for all writers needing a bit of inspiration.

Internet Typewriter is a free, no distractions, customisable text editor. You can sign up and access it on any device. You can turn on electronic or manual typewriter sounds! You can adjust the colours. You can print to pdf. There are paid features but I find this works well without - a free trial of the paid features is given to everyone automatically in November to support NaNoWriMo.

poetry: Rhymezone for rhymes; syllable counter

I will add a graphic resource, making icon tables for dreamdwidth and mention cool math games as a SFW site with a lot of fun games that aren't just for kids with physics, strategy, puzzles, platformers, and more.

( credit/resources for graphics )

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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/402034.html

I've never participated in NaNoWriMo, for reasons I've written about in the past, but, for other reasons, I strongly feel I want to attempt it this year – or at least some sort of Rebel NaNo where I get to write other things alongside the novel!

As a result I'm desperately trying to get all the information together before I start. I'm mostly a pants-er but NaNo doesn’t allow you to spend days thinking about things like names. And for me the names have to be right; one of the eternal joys of fanfic is that, even if you hate the names, all the characters are already named and have jobs and you can get on with the plot.

alderspring has a post up with lots of links to name generators and naming sites. Whether you're thinking of writing for NaNo or just want some inspiraiton for naming your OCs, towns, businesses, or pirate ships, there's a generator for you.

I've long been fond of http://behindthename.com and http://seventhsanctum.com but http://www.babynamewizard.com/ and http://www.magicbabynames.com/ offer something a bit different; tell these sites names you like and they suggest others that are similar in some way. This can be useful if you're overly attached to a name and need a variant for a new story, or for finding siblings for existing characters!

bonus link: https://thewritepractice.com/plotters-pantsers/ explains the terms and the difference between them

Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/474568.html

I haven't really written poetry since I left writerverse and the weather this week has made it hard to concentrate for long periods. So each day for seven days (21-27) I've written a poem, using various ideas and prompts and styles. I posted them only at Dreamwidth for various reasons.

I'd also like to recommend the following sites for prompts and resources:

http://poetryprompts.tumblr.com/archive - still being updated, and has over 200 posts currently in the archive

http://fuckyeswritingprompts.tumblr.com/archive - not currently updated but over 370 posts in the archive for you to peruse

http://writeworld.tumblr.com - prompts, advice/discussion on writing and links in their sidebar to specifc features: word of the day; prompts by type; references,; tips; and word lists (things like names for types of shoes, words that are alternatives to 'ask', Greek words for 'love').

http://poewar.com/category/30-poems-in-30-days-2009/ - a more structured challenge, a whole month's worth of poems!

Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/372643.html

For the

snowflake_challenge day ten – talk about a fanwork creator.

I already rec'd three of my favourite authors for Day Two (though there are a ton of talented authors in the LotS fandom and I could rec more easily!) so I'll rec someone else in an different fandom and fanwork type, and creators of some useful resources.
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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/338523.html

There's a really nice piece about fanfiction here; it's worth reading in it's entirety but I'll give you what I think are the highlights. It starts by positing that fanfiction "is still the cultural equivalent of dark matter: it's largely invisible to the mainstream, but at the same time, it's unbelievably massive." It differs from most articles on fanfic by talking to professional writers who still write fanfiction, taking away the accusation that fanfiction is merely an amateur pursuit.

Naomi Novik, whose Temeraire novels are best sellers and have been optioned by Peter Jackson, who directed the Lord of the Rings movies, writes fan fiction. "Fanfic writing isn't work, it's joyful play," she says. "The problem is that for most people, any kind of writing looks like work to them, so they get confused why anyone would want to write fanfic instead of original professional material, even though they don't have any problem understanding why someone would want to mess around on a guitar playing Simon and Garfunkel."

Emphasis mine; this is why I get so annoyed at the 'lack of creativity' opposition to fanfic; every musician who only plays cover versions, every orchestra that only plays classical music, is as guilty of a lack of creativity as a fanfic writer. More so, I'd argue.

The reporter talks to Racheline Maltese and describes her as "38. She's an actor and a professional writer — journalism, cultural criticism, fiction, poetry. She describes herself as queer. She lives in New York City." Maltese's blog, Letters From Titan is well worth reading for her take on how the lines between media and real life can be blurred, on media representation, on queer culture. She's also on LJ:

rm, freely admitting to her fannish identity and to the fact that she writes not only what could be called 'professional meta' but fanfiction. Obviously, she's on the pro-fanfic side:

"To say that a story stops after we close a book is absurd," says Maltese. "To say that we can think certain things about a story or what might happen next in a story or what might have happened if someone had turned left instead of right but that we can't write them down is absurd."

And another blow to the 'lack of creativity' defence:

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did.

It also points out to those authors who handwring over their 'children' being kidnapped and abused by evil amateurs that:

A writer's characters are his or her children, but even children have to grow up eventually and do things their parents wouldn't approve of. "We don't own nonfictional people," Maltese says, "and at the end of the day, I don't think we can own fictional ones either."

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