Fun Friday Resources

A random list today:

I just picked the first filter that popped up. I added the inspirational text in Pixelmator Pro.

Photofunia gives you hundreds of effects for your photos. (Here are some backgrounds for some of those.)

If you’ve never watched an hours-long video of a train ride or a boat ride, here’s a whole planet full of links to slow TV. It seems to be a growing site; it did not, for example, have my favorite train rides, those of YouTube user RailCowgirl. [PRO TIP: If you ever need to calm those thoughts down, put on a Norwegian train ride, turn off its sound (or at least way down, and put on some soft ambient music, and then go full screen on the video. Just watch.]

Whenever people ask me for suggestions on how to get started writing their book, I always recommend Scrivener as software. My advice is to take the excellent tutorials, write for a while — not necessarily in order or perfectly, of course — then, when you feel as if there must be ways to do ‘x’ or ‘y’ more effectively, go back and take the tutorial again.

But why Scrivener? Here’s a blogpost that gives an overview of using it for your novel. (Obviously it works for other genres as well.)

Here’s an odd little idea generator. You can click for random words and icons, rearrange them like a mind map, just in general let the randomness spark those little links that we like to call inspiration. (Need icons? The Noun Project has you covered.)