Fiction Focus Week 2- Villains
So I considered going into more detail about protagonists and focus on one small part of that- the hero. Then I came to the conclusion that most people don’t really care about heroes. What...
Monthly Archive: February 2013
Challenge Corner #2 – Immortality
Welcome back to Challenge Corner! Did you have fun with last week’s challenge? Quite a few of you have been sharing links! Quadruple bonus points and eternal admiration are due to Hannah, niteowl, Ary...
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...
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.
Authors from Around the Globe: Kazuo Ishiguro
When we hear world literature, the first thing which appears on our mind is the diversity of languages and culture and history inscribed on the pieces’ text and context. Taking this note aside, world...
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...
