The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Louisa May Alcott
1. She lived within walking distance of Ralph Waldo Emerson… and had a lot of company. When Louisa was 8, she and her family moved into a house nearby Emerson’s cottage in Concord. Over...
Writing Gooder A Group Blog From The Young Writers Society
The Editing Cycle #5 – Character Dialogue
There’s a lot to be said about dialogue. Perhaps a year, or ten from now, a revolutionary author will come along and present us with a book that has no spoken word, no vernacular...
Word of the Week #6
Why honey, Rebecca was such a gemutlich child I don’t see how you could possibly dislike her. gemutlich (adj.) gê-MUT-lik 1. Pleasant, amiable, friendly.
The Critic Doublethink
Don’t you know that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? George Orwell, 1984
Featured Poem 3/25 – “Beside a chrysanthemum”
Beside a chrysanthemum by Midang For one chrysanthemum to bloom a nightingale has sobbed since spring, perhaps. For one chrysanthemum to bloom thunder has pealed in dark clouds, perhaps. Flower! Like my sister standing at her...
The Great YWS Design Contest
If you’ve been around YWS for a while, you may recall what was once the YWS store. Just one look at the merchandise gathering dust in that cafepress makes it obvious that our designs...
The YWS Grand Re-Opening
There were three reasons to be excited when I woke up this morning: It was the weekend. It was snowing. It was the YWS Grand Re-opening! I must admit, I was at first too preoccupied...
The Official YWS Grand Re-opening Survey!
Hear ye! Hear ye! You know what today is? YES, it’s Wednesday! Oh, no, now wait, NO! Who said that!? Why, yes! It’s the YWS Grand Re-opening! This only means that it’s time to...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Star Soldiers
Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...
