Thanks to the efforts of the UCWbL dynamic duo Mark Brand and Mark Jacobs, the DePaul Writers Guild has a website for your viewing and reading enjoyment.
Category: Writing about Writing
Lessons, tips, and reflections on being writers; especially discussing the process of composing words, different genres and their related techniques, and meaningful glimpses into their growth as authors, tutors, and readers.
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Can you teach creativity?
In the June 2013 issue of Harper’s, columnist Thomas Frank approaches this question from a refreshing angle: it turns out we’re pretty confident that you can teach creativity,…
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Multilingual Mics Launches!
We here at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research are excited to publish the first ever episode of our new podcast, Multilingual Mics! We’ll be talking…
“A mad scientist approaches you with an offer—he will heighten one of your senses, but it will make one of your other senses duller. It isn’t optional;…
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Uhm… Did I Just Go Too Far?
In creative writing there is this invisible line that so many of us are afraid to cross: how much reality should we use in our fiction without…
If you’re graduating this spring, you’re probably feeling a little more optimistic about the US job market than you might have a couple of years ago. Still,…
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Pass that Hater-ade!
I realize I’m really late to the party on this one, but just as Sam discussed last week, it’s healthy to knock your idols down a few…
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…
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Islamophobia in America
When I go running on Belmont Avenue, I feel like I belong. Skateboarding with my flat mates off Wilson, it’s casual. My presence is primarily ignored, sometimes…
More so than any other genre of music, hip-hop is steeped in language and wordplay, so it’s only natural that many of the greatest hip-hop performers are…