- Writer’s Digest Writing Prompts
- Holly Lisle’s Mapping Workshop
- A good baby name book or website. This one also has surnames.
- Patricia C. Wrede’s fantasy world-building questions.
- Holly Black’s writing resources
- A good word processor program like Open Office (even better if it’s free)
- Author’s outline-helper – Originally created for NaNoWriMo.*
- The Novel Notebook by Lynn Viehl (download here)
- A calendar system to keep track of deadlines
- A good way to procrastinate when the need hits
