Websites, books and tools
Learn more techniques for playing with your words.
Anagrams
Andy’s anagram solver
Type in your key word or phrase, and this tool will create anagrams from them. Whether you’ll like the anagrams, I can’t say. “Ann Wylie” generated “el yawn in” — not a phrase I’ll be using in my next training brochure!
Internet Anagram Server
Turn a list into a mnemonic device to help readers remember your key points. Create a meaningful acronym from the first letters of the words in your list with this online anagram server.
Oxymorons
Myspace Funny Oxymoron Generator
Get inspiration with this push-button generator. See contradictions in terms like “working vacation,” “political science” and “airline food.”
Serendipitous Oxymoron Maker
Practice creating your own paradoxes. Choose from a small list of positive adjectives with negative nouns (“beautiful disaster”) and negative adjectives with positive nouns (“miserable honesty”).
Word coiners
Verbotomy
Practice coining new words.
Play With Your Words
Neurologists call it “the pleasure of the text,” the reward readers get from figuring out figurative language. (It can be quite a reward: If your wordplay is funny enough,
your readers’ brains even deliver a little dose of dopamine.)Learn to tap wordplay’s superpowers at Master the Art of Storytelling — our two-day creative-writing workshop on June 16-17 in Cincinnati.
There, you’ll learn to flip phrases; compress details; sub sound-alikes; list, rhyme and twist — even coin new words with free online tools that do most of the work for you. And you'll polish your skills in a wordplay workout, with recipes for wordplay from anagram to oxymoron.
Save $200 when you book before Dec. 31.
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