Romance and Cliches
Some of you would say that the two are inseparable. Maybe they are. For the sake of Valentine’s Day, I think I’ve found a few ways to fend off the clichés though! 1....
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Tumblr for Writers: Research & Advice
Tumblr is great for cat gifs and SuperWhoLock crossover fanart, but with endless hours (don’t even pretend, “just a few more posts” at ten o’clock always turns into that bleary-eyed realization at 3am that you’re...
Books Belong to Their Readers
If you’re a bookish person on the internet, there’s no way you’ve missed what’s gone down since J.K. Rowling admitted that she shouldn’t have put Ron and Hermione together. This has understandably angered a...
7 Reasons Why You Love To Read
Growing up, there was always one thing my friends would say that I just could never understand: “I hate reading.” ‘How can you hate reading?’ I would wonder. Sure, there are the books that...
Your Top 10 Favorite Writing Memes
If you haven’t already, you really should subscribe to the YWS Facebook Page. We’ll post items of interest there in addition to memes and other funny images. In fact, over the more than 3...
How to protect your work online
One of the questions I receive most often from members of the Young Writers Society is how do you protect your work online? It’s a common concern, and unfortunately there’s no simple way to...
Welcome To The New Writing Gooder
Have you noticed how Writing Gooder has a new theme now? It’s called Hueman, and it’s the perfect theme to highlight a new and refreshed Writing Gooder going forward. We have now an almost...
Beware the ides of NaNoWriMo
It’s the ides of NaNoWriMo! Or, in other words, November 15. If you’re participating in it and you’re doing an equal number of words per day, then you should be at 25,000 by now....
NaNo Survival Kit
Newsreader: Good evening. This is the 6 o’clock news at the Novelists’ News Network studio. Novelists around the world are preparing for ‘Thirty Days and Nights of literary abandon’ according to the organisers of National Novel...
The Legend of Korra: “Beginnings” Recap
Wow. Last night’s The Legend of Korra, “Beginnings” Part 1 and 2, still has me reeling! It felt less like an hour-long episode of television and more like a feature length film. It ranks...
