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Jungian Novel Writing - Character. Has some good ideas to help when devising characters.

An excellent article on the use of obscure words in fiction, brought to my attention by brtom on the wordie page for albedo.

Since I switched to a Mac, I have been really impressed by the quality of the independent apps available; in particular I’ve been using Scrivener, which is perfect for messy, slapdash writers (amongst whose numbers I count myself). I’m trying to write a novel at the moment, and it’s great for planning, research, and ultimately for drafting and redrafting.

I’m collecting a list of interesting architectural terms, to aid in descriptions of a fictional city for a novel which I will probably never write. The list can be found on Wordie, a site for word lovers (it calls itself “like Flickr, but without the photos”). Among my favourites:

• belvedere
• quatrefoil
• caryatid