Monthly Archive: July 2013

Poetic Forms: The Acrostic 10

Poetic Forms: The Acrostic

Hello Everyone! Welcome to week two of poetic forms, where every week I introduce a different type of poem and invite you to give it a go! As an added incentive to take part,...

Word of the Week #24 0

Word of the Week #24

George was a crapulous layabout who eventually died in a strange accident involving three pints of coffee and a thousand pounds of oysters. crapulous (adj.) [KRAP-yuh-lus] 1. Characterised by gross excess in eating or...

Featured Poem 7/29 – “Lesson” 0

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...

Iggy’s Alphabet {A} 1

Iggy’s Alphabet {A}

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...

Poetic Forms Winner: The Villanelle 0

Poetic Forms Winner: The Villanelle

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...