Writing Prompt #1
Hello YWSers! Welcome to the first in a series of weekly writing prompts. As a community of writers, we are all too familiar with writer’s block. The purpose of these prompts is to write...
Category: General
So You Want To Be A Published Author?
If you’re like I was, starting to think about publishing is a little mind-boggling. You don’t know where to start, you don’t know what to do, and you don’t even know if you’re old...
Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: The Darkangel
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...
Fiction Focus 1- Protagonists
So, you’re all set to write that story of dashing and daring- or maybe of romance- or of political intrigue- or self discovery- or an odd relationship- whatever it might be, I will put...
Word History of the Week: Write
Etymology is,”the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time,” (definition from Wikipedia). We use words every day; I’m using words right now! But...
What to Expect from Writing Gooder
By now we’ve given you a small dose of what’s in store for the resurrection of Writing Gooder, but what else can you expect in the weeks, months or even years to come? There’s...
Quote of the Week #1
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarise the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” –Toni Morrison
Featured Poem 2/18 – from Dictee
from Dictee – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Dead words. Dead tongue. From disuse. Buried in Time’s memory. Unemployed. Unspoken. History. Past. Let the one who is diseuse, one who is mother who waits...
Welcome to Writing Gooder
Welcome to the Young Writers Society group blog, Writing Gooder! We first started this blog way back in 2007, although it’s had some hiccups along the way. This blog is maintained and written by...
