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...
Monthly Archive: March 2013
Publishing Strategies: Self Publishing (featuring YWSer Alteran!)
When thinking about publishing your book, there are a lot of questions and concerns that come to mind. Especially when looking at the traditional publishing industry, a lot of authors might not like the...
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...
Featured Club: You know you’re a writer when…
Writers are peculiar creatures. We have particular habits and behaviors that mark us as distinctly more writerish than non-writers, many of which are common, and many more being decidedly uncommon even among our fellow...
Fiction Focus Week 6- “Coming back to Life”
Not only is it the week of YWS’ grand re-opening, for Christians all over the world it’s Holy Week as we approach Easter. So with these two things in mind, today I decided that...
Challenge Corner #6 – Cabbages
Greetings! I hope you’re all doing well – and writing well. But if you’re suffering an inspiration dry spell, fear not! I have another challenge prepared, for whomsoever should require it.
Word History of the Week: Toilet
Today in word history, we’re venturing into the bathroom, into the WC, into the lavatory, and talking about the toilet. The word toilet started out rather different than we now know it now. The...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Louisa May Alcott
1. She lived within walking distance of Ralph Waldo Emerson… and had a lot of company. When Louisa was 8, she and her family moved into a house nearby Emerson’s cottage in Concord. Over...
The Editing Cycle #5 – Character Dialogue
There’s a lot to be said about dialogue. Perhaps a year, or ten from now, a revolutionary author will come along and present us with a book that has no spoken word, no vernacular...
