Monthly Archive: April 2013

Featured Poem 4/8 – “Azaleas” 0

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 0

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 —...

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Beyond the Threshold 3

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Beyond the Threshold

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 Week 7- Sidekicks 2

Fiction Focus Week 7- Sidekicks

A little late this week- I almost forgot! I’m sorry! But that’s just the way of it, isn’t it? I always come back, I always deliver, if somewhat haphazardly, perhaps in a fashion you...

The Editing Cycle #6 – Plot Your Way 5

The Editing Cycle #6 – Plot Your Way

Plotting your novel is a very personal task and nobody can tell you how to do it, but in this week’s session, we’re going to explore an old favourite: the road map. We’ll be...