Publishing Strategies: Vanity Publishing
This week’s post is a little bit different from the past few in that I don’t particularly recommend this strategy to anyone. Yet it’s still in existence because people use this method of publishing,...
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Have You Thought About This? : Diversity in Literature
Let’s get this out of the way. I am white. I am white and I grew up in bland Midwestern America. I love my hometown and the place that I’m from, but it’s bland...
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 —...
Five Writing Questions with Alison Goodman
We’re starting April with something new here at Writing Gooder and I’m very excited to share it with you. In March, I was able to get an interview with Australian author Alison Goodman. I...
Have You Thought About This? : Warming Up
It’s a pretty standard aspect of any skill. Before you go for a long run, you take a warm-up walk. Before you go on stage to belt out opera to a full stadium, you...
The Critic Doublethink
Don’t you know that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? George Orwell, 1984
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Sylvia Plath
With 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Plath’s suicide, writers around the world have gathered to fondly remember the troubled poet. Yet the dark story she has to tell is not one to take...
Authors from Around the Globe: Kazuo Ishiguro
When we hear world literature, the first thing which appears on our mind is the diversity of languages and culture and history inscribed on the pieces’ text and context. Taking this note aside, world...
Poetry for the Prose Writer
I can hear you even now, reader mind, declaring that a proser could never be a poet! That said forms are wildly different! That hysteria is fun! I joke, but we do all know...
