Other Fun and Useful Sites

[moonmomma]

Find a site that isn't about writing but has stuff that's fun or useful for writing anyway? Post it here!

[moonmomma]

Floor Planner
www.floorplanner.com/

If you need to work out the layout of a room or building for your story, this site is great. You can design a room or a whole house, and drag and drop furniture and other stuff into it. I used it to finally pin down the layout of Roric's office/apartment. Since most of the first 1/4 of the book takes place there, and the flow of a lot of the action depends on the room and furniture placement, I wanted to have a clear idea of where everything is. The floorplan builder on this site let me fiddle with it and move things around until I got it the way I wanted. The builder is a little tricky to figure out at first. It helps if you read the tutorial first. (I discovered after 15 or twenty minutes of frustration and starting over.)

A free personal-use account lets you design and save one floor plan. Floor plans are printable, and can be changed and saved as many times as you need to (as far as I could tell) so you can re-use and change your old floorplan the next time you need to design a different one.