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Hello everyone! It's me again. I wear I'll eventually get a mysterious picture to place here. >.< I'm just making sure it's mysterious enough to be worthy. (My story, and I'm sticking!)
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"Ideanary" for Mystery
My favorite Writing.Com Tool, for my favorite Writing.Com Genre
So, there's this hidden tool.
Though, this is not exactly accurate. It is not hidden at all. It's right under Writing.Com Tools on the left sidebar. It's called the Ideanary Tool, and it's AMAZING.
If you've never played with this tool, you have truly missed out. For example, I type in the word 'mystery', and it gave me the following output:
Ideanary Output of "Mystery" ▼
Note: Ideanary results are generated by computer.
The results may be non-E or offensive in nature.
** vehicle **
1. ballet
2. bomb
3. charade
4. cliff hanger
5. dialogue
6. duologue
7. failure
8. flop
9. gasser
10. giveaway
11. happening
12. masque
13. melodrama
14. minstrel show
15. miracle
16. miracle play
17. monologue
18. morality
19. mystery
20. mystery play
21. opera
22. pageant
23. panel show
24. pantomime
25. Passion play
26. pastoral
27. psychodrama
28. review
29. revue
30. serial
31. situation comedy
32. sketch
33. skit
34. soap opera
35. stage show
36. success
37. tableau
38. talk show
39. teleplay
40. vaudeville
41. vehicle
42. work
** thriller **
1. allegory
2. chiller
3. fairy tale
4. gest
5. ghost story
6. horse opera
7. legend
8. love story
9. mystery
10. mystery story
11. myth
12. mythology
13. mythos
14. parable
15. romance
16. science fiction
17. shocker
18. thriller
19. Western
20. whodunit
** vocation **
1. acreage
2. art
3. business
4. calling
5. career
6. chase
7. craft
8. flimflam
9. game
10. lifework
11. metier
12. mission
13. mystery
14. occupation
15. profession
16. pursuit
17. racket
18. speciality
19. specialization
20. trade
21. vocation
22. walk
23. walk of life
** enigma **
1. cabala
2. confidence
3. crux
4. dilemma
5. enigma
6. esoterica
7. floorer
8. fog
9. Gordian knot
10. mystery
11. mystification
12. node
13. nonplus
14. oxymoron
15. paradox
16. perplexity
17. poser
18. problem
19. puzzle
20. puzzler
21. quandary
22. question mark
23. sticker
24. stumper
25. teaser
26. tough proposition
27. why
** secrecy **
1. burial
2. concealment
3. covering
4. darkening
5. deception
6. disappearance
7. eclipse
8. hiding
9. immateriality
10. interment
11. invisibility
12. mystery
13. mystification
14. occultation
15. overcast
16. secrecy
17. secretion
18. shading
19. shadowing
20. subterfuge
Just to keep playing a little, any word within the Ideanary, you can click on to jump around a bit. So, within the list above, I clicked on the word "covering", and got a new list of words, shown below:
Ideanary Output of "Covering" ▼
** wafer **
1. coat
2. coating
3. collop
4. cotton
5. covering
6. deal
7. disk
8. film
9. flap
10. foil
11. fold
12. lap
13. leaf
14. membrane
15. pane
16. panel
17. patina
18. peel
19. pellicle
20. plait
21. plank
22. plate
23. plating
24. ply
25. plywood
26. rasher
27. safety glass
28. scum
29. sheet
30. skin
31. slab
32. slat
33. slice
34. table
35. tablet
36. veneer
37. wafer
** watchful **
1. covering
2. custodial
3. defensive
4. guardian
5. guarding
6. heedful
7. parental
8. preventive
9. prophylactic
10. protective
11. sheltering
12. shielding
13. tutelary
14. vigilant
15. watchful
** screen **
1. cloth
2. coat
3. cover
4. covering
5. covert
6. cowl
7. curtain
8. drape
9. drapery
10. hanging
11. hood
12. housing
13. mantle
14. mask
15. pall
16. parasol
17. screen
18. shelter
19. shield
20. shroud
21. sunshade
22. umbrella
23. veil
24. vestment
** face **
1. apparently
2. border
3. brow
4. cheek
5. chutzpah
6. circumference
7. cortex
8. covering
9. crust
10. envelope
11. epidermis
12. exterior
13. external
14. facade
15. face
16. facet
17. fringe
18. integument
19. lineaments
20. openly
21. outline
22. outside
23. periphery
24. rind
25. shell
26. superficially
27. surface
28. top
** secrecy **
1. burial
2. concealment
3. covering
4. darkening
5. deception
6. disappearance
7. eclipse
8. hiding
9. immateriality
10. interment
11. invisibility
12. mystery
13. mystification
14. occultation
15. overcast
16. secrecy
17. secretion
18. shading
19. shadowing
20. subterfuge
You will find some similarities in the lists, as they were related to begin with (since I clicked on one of the words in the original list to get to the second), but jumping around can be fun.
Now, I'm sure you're wondering how this can be useful. WELL, there are several ways.
First, sometimes I just look through to get ideas. You never know where ideas might come from.
Second, sometimes I look through to just find relationships between things. Especially in mysteries, you need related objects, related plotlines, related activities and people and activities that lead from one to another. These word lists can show you links you may not have considered before that might help you link ideas that your readers may not have considered, either.
Third, I don't know about you, but I really like lists.There's just something about them. Lists are just... pretty nifty. Especially when they are generated for you, and you don't have to create them yourself.
Fourth, this tool is a thesaurus on steroids that isn't really a thesaurus.
Try it. You're going to love it. |
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