Category: Writing
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Everything Is Going So Slowly
Everything is going so slowly. Writing, for example. Back in high school, it felt like my writing star was ascending in an unclouded sky. I moved up the ranks of my online newspaper in exemplary fashion. I participated in NaNoWriMo and wrote a couple full-length first drafts of novels. I entered contests and won a…
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Details in Books (Basically, How My Favorite Books Show and Don’t Tell)
| introduction My professor gave us this instruction for a writing assignment: Begin and end the story with tangible images or action, not abstract thoughts. And of course my INFJ mind winced because I could hang with abstract thoughts all day. (The deep-down, oft-ignored Se danced with joy.) What’s wrong with abstract thoughts? Well, categorically,…
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Out With the Old, In With the New {2016}
Ah, 2016. It’s certainly been a year, hasn’t it? For me personally, it was a good year. I earned a lot of money teaching swim lessons in the first half of the year; I traveled to South Africa on an amazing mission trip; I got to visit family, colleges, and the beach (THE BEACH, guys.…
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Dear Writers #1
Dear writers— I have this index card on my desk, and on it is scrawled a line from Hamilton: I’ll write my way out. I don’t know if you’ve listened to the soundtrack from this brilliant musical—I’d highly recommend that you do—but you can still understand. Alexander Hamilton was a genius, a writer, and his writing…
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5 Tips for Surviving NaPoWriMo
Nope, I’m still doing NaPoWriMo in May, but because most people are sticking with the official April schedule, I figured I’d post these now. For those who don’t know, NaPoWriMo stands for National Poetry Writing Month, a challenge where you write a poem a day during April. I’m doing it in May this year because…
A Glimpse of Starlight 