I’m Still Turning Out (in Writing, in Life, in Everything)
“You say I turned out fine, I think I’m still turning out…” – AJR It’s something I’ve heard all my life – it’ll all turn out find in the end. Those later in life who have been successful, made a…
The Circle of Life (and Writing)
If you read the title to this post and instantaneously thought of The Lion King, know that this was the goal. Well, that and some other things that I’m planning to address in the coming paragraphs, but it is my sincerest…
Fighting Distraction While Writing
Sometimes, I find that distraction can be a good thing. At this moment in my life, I am slogging through the last semester of my undergraduate degree and impatiently waiting to hear back about whether or not I have gotten…
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…
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