Pocket Oracle
February 2023 | by Dani
Yes/No | Short Answer (One Word) | Long Answer (Three Words)
Tools & Resources | Writing | Worldbuilding
Pocket Oracle is a creative tool I designed for coming up with ideas. It's really just a glorified random word generator.
Essentially, you pose the Oracle a question you want help with, and you click the relevant button. The oracle then generates you a random answer or set of words, and it's your job to simply link those words back to your question.
There are a total of 5000 or so words that the Oracle can generate. I arrived at this list by first taking Project Gutenberg's top 10,000 and cutting that down by removing proper nouns, acronyms, abbreviations, contractions, numbers, function words, and words derived from other words. This means that (ideally), each word in the list represents a unique concept.