Monthly Archive: May 2013

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Daisy’s War 4

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Daisy’s War

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...

The Editing Cycle #12 – We Can’t All Be Batman 7

The Editing Cycle #12 – We Can’t All Be Batman

  “I’m whatever Gotham needs me to be.” ~Batman We Can’t All Be Batman In this week’s edition of The Editing Cycle, we take a closer look at the boundary between learning or copying...

Quote of the Week #15 0

Quote of the Week #15

“Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.” -Cory Doctorow 

Featured Poem 5/27 – “Dialect of a Skirt” 0

Featured Poem 5/27 – “Dialect of a Skirt”

Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri   The young girl wanted a new voice. After all, people got new things every day. A new hip, a new nose, a new set of suspenders....

Morning Round-up May 24, 2013 0

Morning Round-up May 24, 2013

The flawed concept of good vs. evil: The philosophy of Hayao Miyazaki I am incredibly surprised by how well my films are received in America. I never expected them to be because even in...

Fiction Focus- First, Second and Third Person 2

Fiction Focus- First, Second and Third Person

(My numbering goes “1,2,3,5,5,7,8,9.” I will no longer be numbering posts. I also apologise for my lengthy hiatus over the exam period). So. You’re starting off a new story, it’s exciting and thrilling but...

Featured Club: I’m Reading… 0

Featured Club: I’m Reading…

What are you reading right now? Is it good, bad, ugly, or awesome? Or are you looking for something to read? I’m Reading… is a club devoted to talking about whatever it is you’re...

Morning Round-up May 23, 2013: Blocking metaphors earthquake! 0

Morning Round-up May 23, 2013: Blocking metaphors earthquake!

How to Write a Novel: 7 Tips Everyone Can Use 1. Write the story you’d most want to read. Don’t write a story just because you think it might be a bestseller or that...

Morning Round-up May 22, 2013 0

Morning Round-up May 22, 2013

Amazon to allow writers to sell fan-fiction Amazon Publishing has reached out to fan fiction writers with Kindle Worlds, a platform allowing authors to write fan fiction based on someone else’s work and share royalties with...