Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: The Wizard’s Castle
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...
Monthly Archive: March 2013
Featured Club: 100 Themes Challenge
If you thought Wheel of Prompts didn’t provide enough of a challenge, this week’s feature is sure to please. 100 Themes Challenge is a club devoted to get you producing something creative not just...
Fiction Focus Week 3- Opening Lines
I know what you’re thinking- is she randomly jumping from one topic to another with no clear correlation between one and the next? Yes. Yes I am. Opening lines are something that really intrigue...
Challenge Corner #3 – Cerberus
Hello, hello again! Before I begin, let me take a moment to congratulate niteowl and wherethewindgoes for defeating last week’s beast! Now, if you’ve been paying attention to Writing Gooder for the last couple...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Sylvia Plath
With 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Plath’s suicide, writers around the world have gathered to fondly remember the troubled poet. Yet the dark story she has to tell is not one to take...
Word History of the Week: Yankee Pt 1
This weeks blog post is about the word yankee and I will be actually splitting it up into two posts because there is a lot of awesome information to share with you. This weeks...
The Editing Cycle #2 – Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rock, Paper, Scissors As writers, sometimes we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. Whether this rock is a lack of inspiration, or a plot arc which refuses to be resolved, we...
Quote of the Week #3
“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, ‘In this world, Elwood, you must be,’ — she always called me Elwood — ‘In this world, you must be oh so smart,...
Word of the Week #3
Man, Cyril just played an amazing hemidemisemiquaver! hemidemisemiquaver (noun) [ˌhɛmɪˌdɛmɪˈsɛmɪˌkweɪvə] 1. A musical note played for 1/64 of the duration of a whole note. Also known as a sixty-fourth note.
A Poet Cannot Just
Exist, Be God, Write Roland Barthes says that the Author is Dead in his essay of the same name. You may be horrified by the notion, but I promise you that it isn’t quite...
