Wordswoman

• Most Common U.S. Surnames (for those times when you suddenly realize all your characters have last names beginning with B). Also includes links to most common/popular boys' and girls' names, and the most popular names historically.
• Parts of a Castle.
• World History Timelines.
• Timeline of Clothing History.
• History of Clothing (including specific pieces of clothing, e.g. earmuffs, bikinis, etc.)
• The Great Idea Finder (history of inventions, inventors, innovations).
• List of Legendary Creatures.

Web Links

• Holly Lisle's How to Create a Character
• Tami Cowden on Characterization
• How to Create a Character Profile
• Creating Characters from Scratch
• Character Checklist
• Working With Your Reader: Character Description
• Building Three-Dimensional Characters
• Using Body Language to Create Believable Characters
• Character Development Drives Conflict
• Character Development Worksheet
• You and Your Character
• The Plotter & The Pantser: A Writing Chat About Characterization
• Problems with Character Names

• Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
• Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated by Nancy Kress
• Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints by Nancy Kress
  

Thanks to the lovely and talented craftyredhead for bringing it to my attention.

• Miss Snark, the Literary Agent
• Evil Editor

That is all.

Or it would be all, if I didn't have these delicious sites for word-lovers to share:

• Blogslot
• Double-Tongued Word Wrester
• Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
• Linguistic Fun Page
• Martha Barnette's Orts
• Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Urban Dictionary
• Word Spy
• World Wide Words