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Fiction Focus Week 8- Dystopia 2

Fiction Focus Week 8- Dystopia

This week I decided to do something a little different and talk about the word that’s on everybody’s lips at the moment: ‘dystopia.’ Its counterpart Utopia is a concept that goes back all the...

Winner of the YWS Easter Hunt Challenge! 0

Winner of the YWS Easter Hunt Challenge!

First, I’d like to say a quick thank you to everyone who entered and to the moderating staff who made this possible! AlfredSymon was particularly genius at hiding his share of the eggs and...

The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Leo Tolstoy 21

The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Leo Tolstoy

(Author’s note: “Writing Gooder” is a blog run by the Young Writers Society and its target audience is teenagers and young college students. Many of these young writers have no idea who Tolstoy was!...

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 —...