Vulnerability and Armor and Words in Creative Nonfiction
It takes a lot to be vulnerable. To lay your thoughts and feelings out in the open and truly let others see your inner workings is momentous. Sometimes vulnerability is seen as something negative and something to hide. We are…
Applying to Creative Writing MFA Programs
Something I discovered junior year was that graduate programs in creative writing exist. At my current university, there isn’t even a graduate program in English, and no undergraduate major in creative writing at all, only a minor. This has never…
I’m a Dabbler When it Comes to Writing
This semester, I have been dabbling in different forms of creative writing. My usual focus is fiction, and I tend to drill my thoughts on creative writing so deeply into the framework of fiction that I often don’t consider the…
Establishing Boundaries in Writing Workshops
Hello blogosphere! Sorry I have been MIA as of late – this semester has been kicking my butt, for lack of a better phrase. I have been writing and typing like mad lately, finishing stories for my classes and publishing…
Pretending: the Job of a Writer
When I was younger, my sister and our friends would constantly play in a world of make believe. We always had a flare for the dramatic, and liked to pretend we were orphans in the twentieth-century on a ship sailing…
Writing While Overwhelmed
How about this title? This is how I feel right now. I am slightly (okay, maybe very) overwhelmed with life at the moment. I like writing. I love writing, but with the start of the semester I have been falling…
What Point of View to Use?
I, you, he, she. The dilemma of which pronouns to use when writing is much, much, more difficult than I anticipated. When I first set out to write my book, I thought it would be in first person. It’s based…
Notes from a Perpetual Procrastinator
This post might as well be called “The Story of My Life.” As I type this (something that I have put off for several days now) I am putting off writing the book as well as writing an essay for…
Comparison: Death to the Writer?
I feel like I’ve heard somewhere that comparison is the death of the artist. If I haven’t heard it somewhere, then apparently I’m more creative than I thought. Comparing oneself to others is detrimental to one’s wellbeing – whether that…
Diving Into the Writing Process
I have been immersed in the writing process for the last few weeks. Not only have I been focusing on the process to take for writing my book, but also on the process for writing effective essays in my summer…
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