Fanfiction is often a young author’s first introduction to writing, especially writing to an audience. Many of these writers have their work reviewed or...
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Creativity is for us all. When we put writing, painting, drawing, sculpting—or general making—on a pedestal as something that artists get to do, we sever an...
If you’ve written anything before, you know how hard it is to stare at a blank screen and wait for inspiration to strike. It can take anywhere from...
I’ll never forget the day when my dad called and said, “Your mom had a stroke.“ I envisioned the scene where Forrest Gump jumped from his...
If you’re anything like me, you probably see essay writing as an intimate experience. It’s often that a lot of me goes into the type of rhetoric I...
Some Thoughts on Staying Connected and Committed Words fail us, especially when we’ve run out of them. Forget that there’s a limitless supply, an...
Why do you write? Reading this question, you may feel as though you have one bullet-proof answer (for example, to blow off steam, track emotions, etc.)...
After returning from reading week, all my classmates were anxious to go to our Canadian fiction class. It had now been over a week since we wrote our in-class...
Idioms. Are they the best thing since sliced bread? Are they a far cry from sprucing up the English language, or do they actually bring new life to what could...
Recently I was workshopping a poem in my creative writing course. The poem was written to describe a photograph of my father and me when I was a baby. While...