Edited to Add: One of my readers informed me that this site may have risque advertisements. I didn’t see them when I visited the site, most likely because I have most pop-up ads blocked on my computer. I apologize to any readers who may have inadvertently been exposed to such content. I’ve removed the link.
To be honest, most online games don’t tempt me much. I’m just not into “shoot-em up” type games.
All that has changed now!
Last week I accidentally discovered the Language is a Virus website (via StumbleUpon) and found myself hooked.
The site provides ample opportunity to play with words and even a place where writer hopefuls can publish poems and stories.
Truthfully, I haven’t explored the entire site. I’ve wasted spent most of my time on the site in the section titled, “Widgets to Cure Writer’s Block.” Somehow, generating character names for stories that I will never write and using the various poem generators to create verse is strangely addictive.
Anyway, I thought I’d share the site with all my writing friends because I know that, like me, you are always looking for ways to avoid work overcome writer’s block.
Enjoy!
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Tags: distractions, games for writers, sites for writers, writing generators
5 responses so far ↓
1 Lillie Ammann // Apr 28, 2008 at
Just what we need, Laura. ANOTHER great Web site to occupy our time. 🙂
2 --Deb // Apr 28, 2008 at
I think I’m going to regret this…..
3 Shantanu // Apr 29, 2008 at
Wow, what an excellent site, and I am not even a professional writer. Thanks for sharing!
4 Laura Spencer // May 1, 2008 at
Hi Lillie, –Deb, and Shantanu!
I was just alerted to some offensive ads on this site. I really apologize for directing you there. I haven’t been able to “catch” the ads displaying, but one of the other readers alerted me to them.
5 Matt Keegan // May 2, 2008 at
Thanks Laura, but I’ll pass on this one. There are too many distractions online as it is — I’ll probably get interested it this tool too and miss my deadlines!