Tagged: Literature

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5 Reasons to Study Creative Writing

For a lot of folks in the US, college decision time is just around the corner, and since you’re here at Writing Gooder it’s safe to say that you might be entertaining the idea...

What Else You Should Be Reading: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency 0

What Else You Should Be Reading: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

There are many things to be discovered in the wonderful world of Twitter. One of those things is a contest regularly run by a certain literary website for a new columnist. Successful auditions land...

What Else You Should Be Reading: Words Without Borders 4

What Else You Should Be Reading: Words Without Borders

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...

Novels and Nonsense #4 – Show Me Your Novels! 5

Novels and Nonsense #4 – Show Me Your Novels!

After a two week break in portugal, I’m back to post on Writing Gooder! Now this Novels and Nonsense post is a little different to my previous ones, partly because I want to try...

Novels and Nonsense #3 – Opening Chapters 0

Novels and Nonsense #3 – Opening Chapters

Anyone who’s ever received a first chapter review from me will have probably been a victim of my ‘opening chapters are vitally important’ preach. As annoying as my preaching may be though, it is...

Novels and Nonsense #2 – Planning Your Novel 0

Novels and Nonsense #2 – Planning Your Novel

So you’ve got a fantastically kick-ass novel idea, and you just can’t wait to spew words all over the place in a flurry of awesomeness. To accompany that idea, you may or may not...

Novels and Nonsense #1 – Taking That First Step 1

Novels and Nonsense #1 – Taking That First Step

‘Sup, my hedogz ‘nd shedogz. As someone who’s pretty much incapable of anything besides writing novels (though the quality of said novels is arguable), I felt it the obvious subject choice for my new...

Divergent: The New Hunger Games? 2

Divergent: The New Hunger Games?

For those of you who read my post on Wednesday, you’ll know that my chosen book of the 10 Books of Summer is Divergent, a Science-Fiction novel by Veronica Roth. As I am the...

10 Books of Summer – Divergent wake-up call 0

10 Books of Summer – Divergent wake-up call

After a strenuous battle of the ages with little remorse and even less mercy, I (Skins) was the chosen one. There was catastrophic death, endless heartache, and a war so bloodthirsty that the mere...