When I write short stories or more recently stories with chapters, I end up using more websites than I’d like to admit. I mean, I admit to using them, but some I’m embarassed about. For example, it feels like I’m always on this app called Wattpad, whether it’s to write or read other peoples’ work. I don’t know what it is for other people, but for me it’s a safe place for me to share my works, no matter how bad they are. It’s a very rare occasion to see someone bullying/being bullied. I stumbled into it when I first really got into writing, like it was something I couldn’t live without. I’ve now been on there for four years this August. It honestly hasn’t felt nearly that long.
I’d have to say that the most embarassing website that I use is meant to be used by pregnant couples who are stuggling to choose a name for their unborn child. I don’t know why, but the hardest thing about me for writing is coming up with my own characters. I literally spend hours scrolling through the site, picking tens of names that I might use, then narrowing it down to the very few that’ll actually be born into characters. It’s especially hard when you need a character to have this certain trait so you want their name to mean whatever the trait may be but have to search hours on end just to find the perfect one. Another hard thing is when you think you have the best name for a character so you use that but halfway through you find a better name so you have to go back to change it, which is a waste of precious time that could’ve been spent writing.
Last year in 10th grade, we used this website called Shmoop constantly for our essays. I have a love-hate relationship with this site becasuse it’s good for quotes from novels, but at the same time it doesn’t give you the page number, instead you get the chapter and paragraph. That, and it doesn’t have most books that I read in my free time so I can’t go on there to find a quote, I have to dig through the book instead.
Links- http://www.wattpad.com http://www.nameberry.com http://www.shmoop.com
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