Make up words with this cool naming tool
I was working on a story today when a writerruption occurred: My brother sent me photos of The Cutest Kid In the World, aka my niece. I got distracted and missed my deadline.
Not really. But don’t you love the word writerruption?
I made it myself, with the cool tool Wordoid. This site is designed to help you find a catchy name for your business by auto-creating new words. But you can also create words to use in your copy, as well.
Just plug in a word or word fragment, click a button, and get your Wordoids. Here are some of the results I got when I plugged in the words edit, coach, consult, rewrite and train:
- Editation
- Coachersecutive
- Coacherience
- Coachieving
- Consultatisting
- Consulties
- Consultimate
- Illustrain
- Importrained
- Supportrained
- Rewritering
- Rewriterant
- Rewriterian
- Traineer
Play With Your Words
Surprise and delight readers
There's a little piece of your brain — it's called the Broca's area — that's responsible for helping you sort through all of the many messages you get each day.
Well-worn phrases and familiar ideas don't activate the Broca's area. Plain old 'splainin' doesn't do anything for it either. But creative techniques like wordplay do.
At Master the Art of Storytelling — our two-day hands-on creative-writing master class on Feb. 19-20, 2019, in San Diego — you’ll learn how to tickle your readers' Broca's area — and cut through the clutter of competing messages — with wordplay. Specifically, you’ll learn how to:
- Go beyond twist of phrase: Learn to flip phrases; compress details; sub soundalikes; list, rhyme and twist — even coin new words.
- Find online tools that do most of the work for you: Walk away with links to some of the best (free!) wordplay resources — as well as ideas for how to use them.
- Polish your skills in our wordplay workout: Get “recipes” for creating 14 types of wordplay, from anagram to etymology to oxymoron.
Learn more about our
San Diego master class.
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