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Names for characters, villains and pen names.

Elven, dwarven, orcish, dark, fae and more, built from original syllable rules.

Real surnames from public US Census data, filtered by letter and length.

First and last names for any cast, from public-domain name data.

Menacing names with the right amount of shadow.

Pen names that sit well on a book spine.

Prompts, plots and titles for the blank page.

Title patterns by genre, to spark the real one.

A library of original prompts tagged by genre.

Prompts for gratitude, reflection, goals and mindfulness.

One fresh prompt at a time, filtered by genre.

A character, a goal, an obstacle and a twist.

Page counts, syllables, reading level and reading time.

How many pages is 1,000 words? Change font and spacing to see.

Typical novel lengths by genre, with sources.

Count syllables line by line, for poems and songs.

Check your 5-7-5, line by line.

Flesch, Fog, SMOG and more, explained in plain language.

How long a text or a whole book takes to read.

Looking for a word counter or a case converter? They already exist and work well: try the word counter and the text case converter at MyToolsLab.