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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...
Guess that Caption! This is a simple game where every other week, I’ll post a photo which has something to do with reading/ writing/ words and your job is to guess the caption of...
For the purposes of, uh, research? Fun? I went onto the chatbar one day and asked certain members what they were reading! Here are their thoughts and recommendations, in their own, exact and not...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Reading and Reviewing Poetry There’s a common belief that only intellectuals and poets can review poetry, but the truth is anyone 1. Start by reading the poem...
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Choosing a Title 1. It needs to reflect your writing If the book you are writing is serious, then the title shouldn’t be funny – that’s lying...
How to be a YA Heroine #1: Katniss Everdeen I’ve decided to become who I’ve always wanted to be: a fashion blogger. Kind of. Not really. Anyway, for the next little while I will...
Hi everybody! I’m Stella, a medical student with a passion for writing who’s tired of authors getting things wrong. In this column I hope to answer medical queries of YWS members so that they...
Oh wow we’re at that time of the year already! Where did our months of delight go, where have our weeks of peace disappeared to, where have our magic days gone?! Well, they’ve gone...
