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FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Hi!

Shy person x outgoing person prompts

"We've got invited to a party this weekend." "You mean, you got invited." "No, we're a package deal and I will make sure, you will enjoy it."

"You decide on the food and I'll order it."

"I can't just go over there and talk to them!" "Don't worry, I'll be right with you."

They make a good team. The shy one is the brains and the outgoing one is the mouth in all their plans.

Their friend was hilarious and just had the best personality. Unfortunately, they were also incredibly shy, so it was their mission as the more outgoing friend, to make everyone see how amazing their friend was.

"Your moans are my favourite sound."

"Tease me some more and I'll show you my reaction."

"I haven't said that we're done here already."

"Staying quiet was never your strong suit, wasn’t it?"

"Make me shut up then."

"I will give that mouth something to do."

"A little biting never hurt nobody."

"Let's commit some sins."

"Come on, don't just undress me with your eyes."

"I have dreamed of this, but this is so much better."

"Can you feel how my body is reacting to you?"

Who knew that you're hiding such a dirty mind."

"Getting you naked was just the first part of my plan for the night."

"Let's have some fun we won't forget in the morning."

"You're wearing way too many clothes for what I have in mind."

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV

Here are some tips on how to write in the soap opera genre- a genre that can be lots of fun because you get to explore wild scenarios, develop characters who range from absurdly naive to seriously sinister while also being able to weave intertwined story lines that may cross generations so you never really get bored. It’s also an extremely popular genre loved globally- almost every continent produces a form of soap opera, both for written and viewing enjoyment.

First key to writing soaps? A genuine respect for the soap genre. Soap operas are often considered a lesser form of writing- fluffy and not meant to be taken seriously. Considering great writers like Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Jane Austen incorporated soap elements in their writing, this couldn’t be further from true. Soaps are definitely a respectable form of writing and you shouldn’t feel any less because you enjoy creating them or look down upon an audience that enjoys them. 

So here are some tips to writing a splashy, addictive soap:

 1. Create a fixed community. Soaps revolve around fixed communities caught up in melodramatic story lines. The fixed community can be a single family (Dynasty), a neighborhood (Desperate Housewives) or an actual place (General Hospital). Creating a fixed community allows an audience to become fully invested in characters that may range from all ages but will all center around a center point.

2. Perpetual drama. The only time an audience gets a break from drama in a soap is not when it stops happening but when the focus is shifted from a bigger drama to a lesser drama. The drama can be divided up into categories- a huge drama the entire community is involved in ( Who Killed JR?) to minor dramas only impacting specific characters. However, the drama never stops in a soap- there is never a time where the characters aren’t involved in some sort of predicament. 

3. Use of events.  Unexpected tragedies, revelations and general mayhem occur with frequency at weddings, births, funerals, christenings, anniversaries and other major life events in a soap. Soap opera writers use life events to reveal plot points or to stir up further crises, but the use of dramatic happenings at an event where most characters in the fixed community are gathered is found in almost every soap opera. 

4. Make the bizarre believable. This is where respect for the genre is key. Bombings, people coming back from the dead, amnesia, kidnappings, deranged nannies- a soap opera writer needs to treat these absurd scenarios as authentically as if they were writing a nonfiction topic.This is the only way to create the suspension of disbelief  required of an audience. Soap opera audiences rarely analyze the absurdity of the scenario soap characters are in if the soap opera creator has done their job in making the bizarre believable. 

5. Controversial topics. Don’t be afraid to explore topics frowned upon in everyday life. Adultery, jealousy, teenage pregnancies, domestic rivalry, gossip, forgotten spouses and off-spring, disease and disorders, murder- these are all topics meant to be explored in a soap opera. Of course, a soap opera writer needs to treat these topics with dignity and sensitivity. Thorough research is required for deeper topics. Still, don’t be afraid to use these controversial topics in a story line because they are usually what keeps an audience interested and wanting to know the outcome.

6. Cliff hangers. Cliff hangers can leave other genre audiences frustrated but a soap opera audience lives for cliff hangers. Leaving a plot in suspense is what keeps soap opera lovers coming back for more! It also allows the soap opera writer to shift onto another topic before getting back to the cliff hanger. This creates an enjoyable cat and mouse dynamic between the soap writer and their audience. Cliff hangers can be used in combination with tip #3- use of events.

7. Wild imagination. A soap opera writer should never stop dreaming up absurdities, calamities, romance, melodrama- it is the one genre in which even fantasy elements can be added. So long as the soap writer incorporates tip #4 - making the bizarre believable- there are really no limits to what you can write in  soap opera.

Affirmation for writers, please!!

prompts for each emotion

misc angst prompts

comforting prompts

au + trope + prompt game

50 prompts with a child

pregnancy prompts (two lists)

reassurance prompts

send a setting + word game

setting prompts

au prompts

to the bone (2017) sentence starters

emoji prompt list

aesthetic prompts

concerned/angsty question prompts

post-trauma prompts

drunk prompts

summer prompts

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All the kisses we deserve.

Kisses

A list of 50 types of different kisses for you to write about and for your characters to experience.

How to write a fluffy kiss scene

In a fluffy, non-sexual kiss scene I would make the kisses shorter, but more frequent, everything is a bit slower and calmer. There is no need for urgency. It’s almost a bit lazy. Instead of deepening the kiss they would give each other a short kiss on the lips and then another one and another one, but they would also focus on other things in the scene:

soft smiles

innocent touches, like neck and shoulders

forehead touches and kisses

hushed conversation

eyelid kisses

gentle stroking of cheeks

soft laughs

tucking hair behind ears

First Kisses

A list of different kinds of first kisses.

First Kiss Prompts

“I would very much like to kiss you right now.” “Please.”

“I’m not sure how to…” “Just follow my lead.”

“Is it ok if I kiss you?” “I would like that very much.”

“I knew I would love kissing you, but this was…” “Even better than the dream?” “Yes.”

“This would probably be the perfect moment for a kiss…” “And we probably shouldn’t waste it.”

“I would like to show you how I good I feel when I’m with you.”

“I’ve never done this before. I’m probably not going to be great at it.” “Neither have I. But we could figure it out together.”

The first kiss was not like the movies. It was a bit too stiff and at an awkward angle. But the second one was already better. Later that evening they had already become masters.

It was always exciting to kiss someone new. The first shy touches of yet to be claimed lips, leading to soft sighs and deepening feelings.

The feather-light touch on her lips made her feel warm and safe.

It was the first time their lips were meeting, but they immediately knew that it wouldn’t be the last.

Accidental Kisses

in a moment of celebration they get overwhelmed with emotions and basically without a conscious decision to do it

they fall into or onto each other and their lips meet

they have to share a very tight space and one of them tries to turn around which makes their lips meet

one gives the other a kiss on the cheek and the other one suddenly turns their head

Random assortment of prompts about kissing

Hi there :)

I'm so happy you enjoy my prompts!

Here are some prompts I already have that you might like:

Band AU Prompts

Rockstar AUs

I did some prompts and some ideas for how to force them to spend time with each other.

Enemies to Lovers: Band Edition

Prompts

Interviewers loved to talk about their well-known rivalry. And it used to be fun to play it up for the cameras, but it becomes increasingly hard when one of them doesn't want to be rivals anymore.

They hadn't started out as enemies, but when their music careers took off they became estranged. For the new tour that was just announced they need to be able to be civil with each other.

Rivalry between the two most popular band members used to be a cash cow when it came to selling the band's music and overall image. But when people get disinterested because of their lack of interactions, the marketing company has the answer: former enemies turned to lovers.

Their fans are divided into three factions: Character A's die hard fans that believe they are the only real talent in the band, Character B's fanatic stans that believe that they can do no wrong - and the fans that believe that it's all a marketing strategy and they've been secretly dating for years.

Ideas to make them spend time together

spending whole days and nights together in the recording studio

having to do interviews together

filming for their music videos

having to pose together in photo shootings

getting picked to appear together on TV shows, because people love their rivalry

posing for the cameras at award shows together

going out together with producers/people interested in investing in them

hanging out in airports together, waiting for their flights

spending time together backstage on tour, but also at festivals or smaller venues

getting a trailer asigned to them that they have to share

at meet and greats getting pushed together for photos with fans

starting out as a small local band, so their first out of town gigs force them to share a hotel room

Now I really want to read some Band AUs...

Hope you like them!