Someone just sent me a link which I thought might be a useful resource: http://visuwords.com/Read more... )

English is a tricky language, even for those of us who’ve grown up with it as our mother tongue. Homophones, words that sound alike yet are spelled differently and have different meanings, are a major cause of headaches for writers because spell check programs cannot differentiate between what you intended and what your brain “heard” as you were ( Read more... )

Two small things that you might find useful:

1. Vocabulary of the Senses - it's a pdf document, listing... just what it says: an extensive vocabulary of words that have to do with each of the five senses, both as a general list and classified into useful categories. For these words, it might even be better than a thesaurus: in a thesaurus you ( Read more... )

NPR's web site has an ongoing blog from one of its people who is undergoing cancer treatment. It may seem to be a weird resource, but since Housefic has an oncologist as one of its main characters, I thought I'd link to it ( Read more... )

Tritter closed the door behind him with a soft click.

Chase took a step back. "Why are you here?" he asked, scared.And 'scared' is... okay. Not for Chase, maybe, but as a reader I can live with it, I guess ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd post this link here, since I use it frequently enough as a resource for my own fic ( Read more... )

Npkedit has a terrific, succinct essay that covers eight great tips for newbie writers. Most of us here aren't newbies, but it's still wisdom worth recommending:

A Public Service Announcement for Newbie Writers

A case study is where we learn by reading.  In the words of
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(Apologies if I'm gettting over my pay grade, but I thought since I inflicted this idea on pwcorgigirl, I should take some initiative. (Should we start a "Case Studies" tag?)

In the first Case Studies post, perspi expressed an interest in fight scenes. From House fic, joe_pike_junior suggested a passage from sy_dedalus's fic "Nothing Like the Blues to Get You Down" as an example of a ( Read more... )

Conversations In Care is an informative web-book about physician/patient communications, mostly for the use of doctors. There's a great chapter about breaking bad news to patients, non-verbal communication skills, and even one about how the physician feels when he has suddenly become a patient in his own hospital (as you are aware, House-fandom is ( Read more... )