Write Gooder, not Better
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing Fantasy 1. Be authentic This might sound like a contradiction, but to make your readers believe in and appreciate all things fantastic, you need to first give them...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career 1. Find the balance between writing what you love and what will sell. Sometimes you have to face the reality that the kind...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Terry Pratchett If everything can be believed about the way Sir Terry lived his life (and I think most of it can be) then it was equally...
Let’s get real. How many of you can name a contemporary author who writes in a language other than English? A poet? A journalist? Words Without Borders is a publication driven by the idea...
I’m an English major, so I would love to know more about careers in publishing. One of the things I find people don’t know about publishing is exactly how many jobs you can do...
Lovely readers, you may have noticed my brief absence from my usual slot on Saturdays where I babble on about publishing and books and being a professional at this writer thing. Part of this...
(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!...
Ladies and gentlemen, we meet week two of our delicious NaPo writing! I’m just hanging in there – how about you?
1. His immortal pet raven inspired the famous Nevermore-speaker of Poe. Dickens had a pet raven named Grip. That alone might be interesting. Imagine growing up in a household with a nice, big, super...
