Word History of the Week: Ye
Welcome again to The Word of the Week! This edition, we’re going back in time to visit Ye Olde Word Facts. If you think of restaurant trying to seem quaint and English, the first...
Category: General
The Editing Cycle #1 – Sentence Structure
For our first session of The Editing Cycle, we are going to focus on fiction, more specifically, on sentence structure.
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Twain
Once a controversial figure banned from student libraries, Mark Twain has been called the greatest American author ever to have lived. His novels can be found in literature classrooms around the world…if they’re not...
Word of the Week #2
Petula was completely taken in by Clark’s blandiloquence. blandiloquence (noun) blæn-DIL-ê-kwens 1. Smooth talk, flattery.
Poetry for the Prose Writer
I can hear you even now, reader mind, declaring that a proser could never be a poet! That said forms are wildly different! That hysteria is fun! I joke, but we do all know...
On the Spotlight: “Do You See the Worms?”
If there’s one thing we can say about our fellow writers, it is that we’re readers first. Every day, members of the Young Writers’ Society are privileged to the works created by our friends...
Featured Poem 2/25 – “Mokkye Market”
Mokkye Market by Shin Kyŏng-Nim The sky urges me to turn into a cloud, the earth urges me to turn into a breeze, a little breeze waking weeds on the ferry landing once storm clouds...
Things Every Writer Should Know (2/24/13)
Five Ways to Make Research Fun (And Hopefully More Productive…) Research. Some of us thrive off of it. Some of us avoid it like the plague. Some of us even use it to procrastinate....
Behind the keyboard: On being a writer
We writers, as a group, must be very strange to outsiders. For one thing, we sometimes hear voices in our head. However, we sometimes call them our characters. We write down the things they...
