Finding Your Writing Tribe
It’s always amazing to me how spending time with other writers, and learning more about writing, can leave me so incredibly invigorated. This past weekend, I, along with some of the other borrowed solace editors, attended the Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference (PPWC). …
It’s Hard to Find Yourself in the Midst of Life
I am a firm believer in talking about what’s hard. I think it is a disservice to everyone if we ignore what makes us uncomfortable or ashamed. There are things I believe that are hard things to believe, and I…
Growth Isn’t Always Easy
I, like most people, went through several growth spurts during middle school. For most of my life I’ve been taller than the majority of kids my age, so these spurts were unwelcome. I was more mature than many my age,…
The Life of a Writer is a Life of Rejection
This is a post I never published from spring 2017, yet is particularly poignant after a slew of another type of rejections recently… I’ve been meaning to write something about rejection for a while. The thing is, I find this…
Writing After You Get That Degree
Or, alternatively, things I wish someone would have told me. You will most likely forget to write. I know it seems impossible while you are in college immersed in writing everything from research papers to your weekly calendar, but you…
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…
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