Would You Stay?
We often think ourselves to be immortal until the moment of death is upon us. By this, I do not mean that we are ignorant. We all know we will die one day; it...
Writing Gooder A Group Blog From The Young Writers Society
Words Worth a Thousand Pictures
Welcome to Character Circus ~ where they like to let you think you are the one pulling strings. * Every once in a while, whether in that one tale we’ve adored since childhood, or...
Poetic Forms Winner: The Acrostic
Hi everyone! If you haven’t read about Acrostic Poetry yet, then please do take a look to find out how you can write one as well! This week we had three entrants and all...
Novels and Nonsense #2 – Planning Your Novel
So you’ve got a fantastically kick-ass novel idea, and you just can’t wait to spew words all over the place in a flurry of awesomeness. To accompany that idea, you may or may not...
So, what do you do with an English degree?
One of my favorite professors once made an excellent point. No ivy league school offers a degree in business. Now, this is particularly relevant to my university because we have a fairly prestigious (and...
Fiction Focus- Tying Up Loose Ends
So, you reach the end of your story. Your novel is a sprawling work of epic genius with dozens of plotlines finally converging on one moment, and then declining from there. You have “loose...
Poetic Forms: The Acrostic
Hello Everyone! Welcome to week two of poetic forms, where every week I introduce a different type of poem and invite you to give it a go! As an added incentive to take part,...
Wake-up Call for If I Stay!
Prepare to cry your eyes out. The wonderful novel If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, tells the tale of seventeen year old Mia Hall. We follow her story as she deals with the aftermath...
Word of the Week #24
George was a crapulous layabout who eventually died in a strange accident involving three pints of coffee and a thousand pounds of oysters. crapulous (adj.) [KRAP-yuh-lus] 1. Characterised by gross excess in eating or...
