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...
Monthly Archive: February 2013
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...
Writing Prompt #1
Hello YWSers! Welcome to the first in a series of weekly writing prompts. As a community of writers, we are all too familiar with writer’s block. The purpose of these prompts is to write...
So You Want To Be A Published Author?
If you’re like I was, starting to think about publishing is a little mind-boggling. You don’t know where to start, you don’t know what to do, and you don’t even know if you’re old...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: The Darkangel
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...
Featured Club: Wheel of Prompts
Wheel of Prompts is a fairly new club started by Zyphlid. Young as it is, however, the club already provides a nice variety of daily prompts including those based on words, pictures, and music.
Fiction Focus 1- Protagonists
So, you’re all set to write that story of dashing and daring- or maybe of romance- or of political intrigue- or self discovery- or an odd relationship- whatever it might be, I will put...
Challenge Corner #1 – “We’re Fine”
Are you stuck? Has your Muse gone on holiday, and the Beast of Writer’s Block reared its ugly head in their absence? Let me help you. Because I have here a challenge! Think you...
Word History of the Week: Write
Etymology is,”the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time,” (definition from Wikipedia). We use words every day; I’m using words right now! But...
