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...
Write Gooder, not Better
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
I haven’t posted for a while, but today got to thinking about a specific trope that is far more pervasive than we perhaps we think. It is the recurring character of the Other Woman...
You’re running along through the video game. You slip up, hit the big nasty spikes. Your avatar flickers, and disappears, and up in the corner, the life counter drops down to one. The beginning...
Have you ever read a story that takes your breath away as your eyes continue to scan down the page, reading, still reading, steadily reading while craving for more even after it is finished...