Poetic Forms: The Acrostic
Hello Everyone! Welcome to week two of poetic forms, where every week I introduce a different type of poem and invite you to give it a go! As an added incentive to take part,...
Monthly Archive: July 2013
Wake-up Call for If I Stay!
Prepare to cry your eyes out. The wonderful novel If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, tells the tale of seventeen year old Mia Hall. We follow her story as she deals with the aftermath...
Word of the Week #24
George was a crapulous layabout who eventually died in a strange accident involving three pints of coffee and a thousand pounds of oysters. crapulous (adj.) [KRAP-yuh-lus] 1. Characterised by gross excess in eating or...
Featured Poem 7/29 – “Lesson”
Lesson by Ellen Bryant Voigt Whenever my mother, who taught small children forty years, asked a question, she already knew the answer. “Would you like to” meant you would. “Shall we” was another, and...
Iggy’s Alphabet {A}
Hello everyone! This is a new segment for WritingGooder, called “Iggy’s Alphabet”, written by yours truly, every Monday. What’s it about, you ask? Well, I just choose a word that begins with the letter...
Poetic Forms Winner: The Villanelle
Hi everyone! If you haven’t yet seen this week’s description of the Villanelle, then please do check it out to find out more about one of my favourite forms of poetry. This week, both...
Novels and Nonsense #1 – Taking That First Step
‘Sup, my hedogz ‘nd shedogz. As someone who’s pretty much incapable of anything besides writing novels (though the quality of said novels is arguable), I felt it the obvious subject choice for my new...
Divergent: The New Hunger Games?
For those of you who read my post on Wednesday, you’ll know that my chosen book of the 10 Books of Summer is Divergent, a Science-Fiction novel by Veronica Roth. As I am the...
Four Types of Terrible Query Letters
The query letter is what is used to submit a piece of work to an agent in the book industry, and is one of the most difficult things a writer encounters (after writing the...
