# Become a Writer Today

> Free, interactive tools and live data for working writers. Every resource here is a tool you use or a dataset you query, not a static article: paste a draft and see issues light up, search a rhyme index, or filter a current database of writing contests by genre and deadline. Built to be genuinely useful in the browser, with nothing sent anywhere.

## Tools
- [Grammar and Style Checker](https://becomeawritertoday.com/grammar-checker/): Paste a draft to flag stiff formal words, filler intensifiers, passive voice, US quotation-mark errors, dangling opening modifiers and overlong paragraphs. Runs entirely client-side.
- [Rhyme Finder](https://becomeawritertoday.com/good-words-to-rhyme-with/): Perfect and slant rhymes grouped by syllable count, from a phonetic index.
- [Dead Word Sandbox](https://becomeawritertoday.com/filler-words/): Highlights filler words, weak adverbs, intensifiers and vague nouns in a pasted draft.
- [Emotion Wheel](https://becomeawritertoday.com/emotion-words-list/): Drill from a core emotion to the precise word.
- [Root Word Explorer](https://becomeawritertoday.com/list-of-root-words/): Search a Latin or Greek root, its meaning, and words built from it.
- [Character Adjective Canvas](https://becomeawritertoday.com/adjectives-for-strong-women/): Build a character profile from trait words.
- [Poetic Devices Explorer](https://becomeawritertoday.com/poetic-devices/): Browse and quiz yourself on literary devices with worked examples.
- [All Writing Tools](https://becomeawritertoday.com/word-tools/): Every tool and word bank in one place.

## For writers
- [For self-publishing authors](https://becomeawritertoday.com/for-self-publishers/): The tools for finishing a book and shipping it: drafting and revision, royalty and cost calculators, a copyright page generator, and the databases of conferences, grants and residencies.
- [For freelance writers](https://becomeawritertoday.com/for-freelance-writers/): The commercial half of freelancing: rate and quote calculators against EFA benchmarks, an invoice generator, a scope creep calculator, fast editing checks, and the databases of paying markets.
- [For content marketers](https://becomeawritertoday.com/for-content-marketers/): The checks that run before copy publishes: a headline analyzer, an email subject line checker, a pixel-width meta description checker, readability and grammar checks, and topic generators.
- [For poets](https://becomeawritertoday.com/for-poets/): The craft and submission tools for poets: a syllable counter and meter checker for scansion, a rhyme finder, a searchable public domain anthology, and the databases of poetry contests, magazines and residencies.

## Databases
- [What Closes Next](https://becomeawritertoday.com/deadlines/): One chronology of every dated writing deadline the site tracks, contests and grants and residencies, grouped by month and soonest first, with subscribable ICS feeds by genre.
- [Writing Contests](https://becomeawritertoday.com/writing-contests/): A current, searchable database of fiction, essay and nonfiction contests with deadlines, entry fees and prizes.
- [Poetry Contests](https://becomeawritertoday.com/poetry-contests/): Current poetry contest deadlines, fees and prizes.
- [Writing Grants](https://becomeawritertoday.com/writing-grants/): Current grants, fellowships and residencies.
- [Contests Open Now](https://becomeawritertoday.com/contests-open-now/): Every open contest and grant, soonest deadline first.

## Guides
- [Dangling Participle Examples](https://becomeawritertoday.com/dangling-participle-examples/): How dangling modifiers happen and how to fix them.
- [Grammarly Review](https://becomeawritertoday.com/grammarly-review/): A hands-on review of the grammar checker.