The complete index of every free tool and word bank on Become a Writer Today. If you know what you want, it is below. If you want the ones for the job you are doing, start with your kind of writer.
The same tools, assembled by who is using them. Faster than scrolling an A-Z when you know the job.
Finish the book, then price it and publish it. Draft, revise, royalties, costs, copyright.
Start here→Price the work, ship it clean, get paid. Rates, quotes, invoices, scope, fast edits.
Start here→The checks that run before you publish. Headlines, subject lines, meta, readability.
Start here→Write the line, hear it, submit it. Scansion, rhyme, anthology, contests and magazines.
Start here→See the hero's journey and beat sheets at work, place your own beats, and draft with a target.
Open the hub→Write, scan, rhyme and submit: the site's poetry tools in one workflow.
Open the hub→Study the genre, build a mystery, find a market: the site's mystery tools in one workflow.
Open the hub→The tools above are free. When it is time to pay for software, these reviews and comparisons help you pick. The full set lives on the writing software hub.
Every review, comparison and finder for paid writing software, in one place.
Open the hub→ChatGPT, Jasper, Copy.ai and the niche tools for authors, ecommerce and SEO, tested and compared.
Read the guide→Grammarly, ProWritingAid, QuillBot, LanguageTool and more, matched to a kind of writer.
Compare checkers→An honest, hands-on verdict on what Grammarly does today and who it is for.
Read the review→Twelve tools that each beat Grammarly at one job, from paraphrasing to manuscript depth.
See the alternatives→Exactly what the paid step buys over the free plan, so you can judge the upgrade.
See the difference→Type any theme and get evocative related words grouped by part of speech, live. Copy or star each one.
Open tool→Type any word, get perfect rhymes grouped by syllable count.
Open tool→Browse common rhyming families, then find rhymes for any word live.
Open tool→Start with a core emotion and drill down to the precise word you need.
Open tool→Search a root, its meaning, or a word built from it, Latin and Greek.
Open tool→Type any word or phrase to check if it reads the same backwards.
Open tool→Type a flat word like walk or said and get stronger alternatives, each with a real example sentence.
Open tool→The site's poetry tools as a write-scan-rhyme-submit workflow.
Open tool→Pick a form and the tool builds its real scaffold: line count, syllable targets, rhyme letters and refrain rails, with live syllable feedback as you write.
Open tool→Per-word syllable counts and line totals, with a built-in 5-7-5 haiku checker.
Open tool→Paste a line or stanza to see its stress pattern, meter verdict and rhyme scheme.
Open tool→A searchable anthology of public-domain poems, filterable by theme, form and poet.
Open tool→Read Invictus in full, then discover 10 defiant poems in the same spirit.
Open tool→Every literary device explained with worked examples.
Open tool→71 literary terms defined, each with sourced examples from real works and a spot-the-device quiz.
Open tool→20 poetic forms explained, from blank verse and haiku to the villanelle and sestina.
Open tool→Type your words, pick a shape, and watch them arrange into a picture. Copy it or download a PNG.
Open tool→Paste a poem to get its rhyme scheme letter by letter, with every perfect, slant and eye-rhyme match explained.
Open tool→Paste a poem and test it against the sourced rules of the sonnet, villanelle, sestina, pantoum, limerick, haiku, ballad and blank verse.
Open tool→Click the words to keep, black out the rest, and download your redacted poem as a PNG.
Open tool→All 201 public-domain anthology poems on their own pages, grouped by era, each with similar poems and one-click scansion.
Open tool→Era-accurate character names from real birth records, 1880s to 2020s.
Open tool→Was that name really used in that decade? Check any first name's real rank across fifteen decades of birth records.
Open tool→Real-record author bylines by era, presentation and byline style, each with its actual historical rank.
Open tool→Instant names for elves, dwarves, orcs, dragons, towns, kingdoms and more, across 15 genres.
Open tool→Instant book titles across 8 genres, built from this site's own word banks and genre title grammars.
Open tool→Click traits to build a character profile, then email it to yourself.
Open tool→Build a re-rollable story skeleton: protagonist, complication, stakes, a genre trope and a twist.
Open tool→Pull a writing challenge to try today.
Open tool→Generate a newspaper or blog column idea on demand.
Open tool→Generate an editorial or report writing topic with argue-for/against angles.
Open tool→Draw a genre or format writing prompt (fantasy, romance, horror, sci-fi, journal, first-line, story starter) and save it to your toolkit.
Open tool→Click through the stages of the hero's journey with real examples.
Open tool→See a telling line, then reveal how to show it instead.
Open tool→Enter a word count to see if your manuscript is a short story, novella or novel.
Open tool→See the hero's journey and beat sheets at work, then place your beats and draft with a target.
Open tool→Set a target and deadline, get your daily quota, finish date and streak tracker.
Open tool→Save the Cat story beats mapped to your manuscript's word count.
Open tool→Industry-standard word counts by genre, format and reader age group.
Open tool→How many pages is your word count? Computes it from your font, size, spacing and margins.
Open tool→One paste runs every analyzer at once: style, readability, dialogue and dangling openers, with a visual pacing report and draft-over-draft deltas.
Open tool→Paste your draft to highlight filler words, weak adverbs and vague nouns in real time.
Open tool→Paste a draft to flag stiff words, filler, passive voice, quotation slips and dangling modifiers.
Open tool→Paste a chapter, get a full style report: cliches, echoes, passive voice and rhythm.
Open tool→Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade, reading and speaking time for any text.
Open tool→Spot what dangles in each sentence, then see the fix.
Open tool→A 42-term grammar glossary with definitions and examples, plus a quick self-test.
Open tool→Confused word pairs and punctuation rules, each with a worked example.
Open tool→Loaded words and phrases with inclusive alternatives and the history behind each.
Open tool→Paste a draft to flag phrases from the biased-language list, each with an alternative and the history behind it.
Open tool→Paste dialogue to fix comma-vs-period before tags, capitalisation and quote marks, US or UK.
Open tool→Paste a manuscript for a pass/fail against standard (Shunn) format: indents, word count, scene breaks.
Open tool→Deterministic checks for the lines that do the selling. Every rule is shown, so you can disagree with the score.
Score a headline on length, structure and clarity, with every rule shown.
Open tool→Check length, spam-trigger terms and mechanics before you hit send.
Open tool→Estimated pixel width and a live search-result preview for your description.
Open tool→Not sure which kind of writer to be, or how to become one? Start here.
A two-minute quiz that walks you to the writing career that fits, from 19 real paths.
Take the quiz→All 19 writing careers, grouped by type, each with a roadmap and real salary or rate data.
Open tool→What writers, authors and editors earn by US state and percentile, from BLS data.
Open tool→The state of writing income: BLS and EFA data on what authors, copywriters and freelancers earn.
Open tool→Verified job boards, pitch markets and marketplaces for writers, filterable by niche and pay.
Open tool→Convert per-word, per-hour and per-project rates against EFA benchmarks.
Open tool→Royalty per sale and breakeven for KDP, ACX and IngramSpark.
Open tool→Build an itemised client quote priced against EFA rate benchmarks.
Open tool→Make a clean, numbered client invoice privately in your browser.
Open tool→Price the extra revision round, and get the wording to ask for it politely.
Open tool→What editing, formatting and a cover really cost, from sourced ranges.
Open tool→Answer a few questions to compare KDP, KDP Select, IngramSpark and Draft2Digital.
Open tool→A ready-to-paste copyright page for your book, plus a US public domain checker.
Open tool→Do you have to tell Amazon you used AI? Walk your workflow through KDP's actual policy, per content type.
Open tool→Words to tokens to money: raw Claude and GPT API pricing versus Sudowrite and Novelcrafter, verified with dates.
Open tool→Filter free writing software by what you write, your platform and price.
Open tool→Filter letter-writing apps by platform and price.
Open tool→What you can quote, what has fallen into the public domain, and what the contract clause actually means. Deterministic rules with the sources shown.
Enter a publication year, answer the notice and renewal questions, get a verdict with the reason. Cornell chart rules.
Open tool→Song lyrics, poetry, prose, epigraphs and brand names in your book: a decision tree with the source quote under every verdict.
Open tool→The clauses that decide what a writing deal is worth, each with a watch-for note from Authors Guild, NWU and SFWA guidance.
Open tool→Living databases, checked and refreshed on a schedule, not scraped once and left to rot.
Every open contest and grant in one list, soonest deadline first.
Open tool→Current poetry contest deadlines, fees and prizes, searchable.
Open tool→Fiction, essay and nonfiction contest deadlines, searchable.
Open tool→Current grants, fellowships and residencies with deadlines.
Open tool→Which magazines are open for submissions, what they pay and how long they take.
Open tool→Publications and blogs that pay writers, each with a pay rate quoted from its own page and an AI submission policy where stated.
Open tool→Which magazines and contests ban AI-written work, in their own words, with source links and check dates.
Open tool→Residencies and fellowships with deadlines, stipends and costs, searchable.
Open tool→Conference dates, costs, scholarships and agent pitch sessions for the next 12 months.
Open tool→Subscribe to writing deadlines in your own calendar app, free ICS feeds by genre.
Open tool→The contests, magazine windows and residencies closing soon, across every genre, in one free email every Thursday.
Get the digest→What contests actually charge and pay: fee quartiles by currency, free-entry share and the full prize-to-fee ratio distribution, computed from the database.
Read the report→Browse and filter magazine types by category.
Open tool→Filter fiction tropes by genre and romance heat, each defined with named example works.
Open tool→What detectors claim vs what independent tests find, every false-positive figure linked to its source.
See the evidence→Study the genre, build a mystery with tropes and twists, and find a market.
Open tool→50 mystery, crime and thriller authors, filterable by era and subgenre, with sourced life dates and key works.
Open tool→Where the tools remember what you did. The first two are free and run in your browser. The third is the paid subscription that carries them between your devices.
Fill in the parts and assemble a correctly ordered query letter to an agent, live in your browser.
Open tool→Track what you submitted where, privately in your browser.
Open tool→Every word, rhyme and name you starred across the tools, in one place.
Open tool→Your deadlines, submissions, streak, saved items and reports, assembled on one page from this browser.
Open your desk→A paid subscription that syncs the tracker and your saved items across devices and keeps your report history. Every tool above stays free.
See what Pro adds→The tools above are free and stay free. These are one-time paid downloads for when a web page cannot go far enough.
50 words that trip up writers regularly.
Open tool→95 words graded beginner to national level, with an audio spelling-bee quiz.
Open tool→Portmanteau words for writers, with meanings.
Open tool→24 homophone sets that can sabotage your writing.
Open tool→30 English spelling rules with a worked example for each.
Open tool→Commonly misspelled words plus American and British spelling differences.
Open tool→Curated word lists with a live generator on every page.
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