National Novel Writing Month: Resources

Character Creation Online Resources:

Work:

• List of medieval professions  http://arcana.wikidot.com/list-of-medieval-european-professions
• Occupation profiles (current) http://www.careers.org/occupations
• U.S Dept. of Labor occupation resources https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/statistics/occupations

Religion:

• Religion in the Ancient World (Ancient History Encyclopedia) https://www.ancient.eu/religion/
• How religion spread around the world (video) https://youtu.be/AvFl6UBZLv4
• Encyclopedia Mythica: includes sections on myth, folklore, and miscellaneous info. (calendar of feast days, dictionary of terms, etc.)  https://pantheon.org/mythology/

Social Customs:

• International guides to language, customs and etiquette https://www.commisceo-global.com/resources/country-guides

Online Resources:

Folklore: 

• Famous American Folklore https://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html

• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

• Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend: https://archive.org/details/funkwagnallsstan00leac

Objects and Symbols: 

• Dictionary of Literary Symbols: https://www.academia.edu/7791057/A_Dictionary_of_Literary_Symbols

• Symbolic Actions and Symbolic Objects (how to use them in writing) https://medium.com/@pirangy/symbolic-actions-and-symbolic-objects-john-truby-the-anatomy-of-story-p-239-4ae438a0ae8c

Buildings:

• Abandoned places: https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/six-abandoned-places/

• Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/massachusetts/abandoned

• Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System (search by town, then neighborhood or street): http://mhc-macris.net/

• National Register of Historic Places: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm

Cemeteries and Monuments

• Graphic guide to cemetery symbolism (Atlas Obscura): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-graphic-guide-to-cemetery-symbolism

• Gravestone symbolism: http://www.thecemeteryclub.com/symbols.html

• Cemetery Symbolism: What Do Those Mysterious Monuments Mean? https://laurelhillcemetery.blog/2018/06/28/cemetery-symbolism-what-do-those-mysterious-momuments-mean/

• Symbolism on Monuments: https://churchmonumentssociety.org/resources/symbolism-on-monuments