Fiction Focus Week 8- Dystopia
This week I decided to do something a little different and talk about the word that’s on everybody’s lips at the moment: ‘dystopia.’ Its counterpart Utopia is a concept that goes back all the...
Writing Gooder A Group Blog From The Young Writers Society
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...
Challenge Corner #8 – Six Days
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at my calendar, and decided to count the number of free days I had left in my Easter break. It turned out the number was six,...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Leo Tolstoy
(Author’s note: “Writing Gooder” is a blog run by the Young Writers Society and its target audience is teenagers and young college students. Many of these young writers have no idea who Tolstoy was!...
Quote of the Week #8
“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.” – Scott Westerfeld
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.
Word of the Week #8
She sat silent, listening to the psithurism high above her, and knew that here was peace. psithurism (noun) SITH-ur-izm 1. The sound of the wind in the trees
Week Two: Hang in There
Ladies and gentlemen, we meet week two of our delicious NaPo writing! I’m just hanging in there – how about you?
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 —...
