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Writing about Writing

New Beginnings, the Blues, and Coffee: Surviving Winter Quarter

Winter Quarter at DePaul began with a record-shattering bitter cold, and heading to class after a cancellation on Monday, I felt as though I have faced the…

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Writing about Writing

Cracking the Block: 8 Suggestions for Defeating Writer’s Block

We’ve all been there. You have a paper due (tomorrow!), and as you sit there staring at your computer screen, the words just will not come. How…

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Writing about Writing

Links and “Jesus Freaks”

A Blog within a blog… Since the beginning of my cracky-voice, adolescent years I’ve always had an interest in writing a  really cool blog. I aspired to…

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The Blank Page

It’s a writer’s worst enemy, that blank page – all empty and looming and devoid of creative spark. It taunts us with possibility. ‘What should I write?’…

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A prescription for the flustered writer who strives for “little animal icons”: 750words.com

Does anyone use 750words.com? I came across an article in the Writing Lab Newsletter this week that explains and discusses the “web-based application.” Jackie Grutsch McKinney from…