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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The new season of House of Cards was released on Valentine’s Day, marking the return of the duplicitous Frank Underwood on his quest for power. In the…
Creative writing is hard. Like, really, really hard. While I can bang out an academic paper in no time at all, I find myself agonizing over the…
When you read a book, what’s one of the first things you notice? Is it the setting? Is it the use of concrete versus abstract details? Is…
Writing is dangerous business. Throughout history, ranks of frustrated and despondent novelists and poets have made the image of the down-and-out writer a pop culture fixture. The…
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Suck It Up and Take It
I usually have no problem taking criticism. Well, not when it comes to my writing at least. I know the value of a workshop class and I…
We writing tutors can all appreciate how difficult it is to explain to outsiders everything that goes into our art. Plus, it’s one of the ironies of…
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eniltuO esreveR ot woH
Revising has always been tough for me. I always bleed out my papers very slowly, revising as I go. When the paper’s finished, then, I have a…
Football season may be over, but it’s worth talking about something that made this season a little unusual: it seems more and more athletes are speaking their…
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Against Flash Drives
A friend of mine who is a prolific writer had his apartment broken into not very long ago. Being a writer, he obviously didn’t have many valuables–except…