Winner of the YWS Easter Hunt Challenge!
First, I’d like to say a quick thank you to everyone who entered and to the moderating staff who made this possible! AlfredSymon was particularly genius at hiding his share of the eggs and...
Category: General
The Editing Cycle #7 – Writing with Dr Seuss and Neil Gaiman
That feeling you get when you’re reading a book which someone else writ and you think what it took.
Featured Poem 4/8 – “Azaleas”
Azaleas by Kim So-wŏl See information on the translation of this poem here. When seeing me sickens you and you walk out I’ll send you off without a word, no fuss. Yongbyon’s...
Have You Thought About This? : The Three-Pointed Balancing Act
The more I review, the more a trifecta of necessary elements calls my attention and gets my mind stirring. You’ve read them. The “un-successes”. The moments of a novel that are all imagery —...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens
1. His immortal pet raven inspired the famous Nevermore-speaker of Poe. Dickens had a pet raven named Grip. That alone might be interesting. Imagine growing up in a household with a nice, big, super...
Word of the Week #7
Being the nelipot she was, Svetlana often scraped the soles of her feet. nelipot (n) ‘nel-i-pot\ 1. A person who walks barefoot.
YWS Easter Egg Hunt
Hello everyone! An exciting event is now taking place over at The Young Writers Society and anyone can take part! The YWS staff have hidden 20 secret Easter Eggs around the site and each one is...
Featured Poem 4/1 – “Vespers”
Vespers by Louise Glück In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my assignment, principally regarding the tomato plants. I think I...
Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up
It’s a pretty standard aspect of any skill. Before you go for a long run, you take a warm-up walk. Before you go on stage to belt out opera to a full stadium, you...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder Walks the Plank
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...
