For a while now I have been asking myself how I can make a career out of my writing. My immediate answer would be to write novels…
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.
Unfairness, thy name is unpaid internship. During one conversation appointment this week, I fell into something of a difficulty: having to explain why I had done so…
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Blogging on Blogging
Blogs, blogging and bloggers all have a certain stigma attached to them. From “bored housewives” to “creepy internet stalkers”, the blog world usually gets a bad reputation.…
Most of us have heard by now of the many books that Americans have tried to get banned—and have even succeeded in banning—over the years. Some of…
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Eat, Breathe, Write
I write because I have to. This isn’t because I’m in school and I am assigned to. I write because it is the best way I know…
Now that it’s October, I know I want to start reading some books that are well suited to sitting with a ratty old blanket and a bottomless…
Okay, okay, I know: I need to chill out about typewriters.  But I’m really enjoying the book by Friedrich Kittler that I mentioned last week, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter.  In…
… with his typewriter.  Yes, it turns out the Twain-man couldn’t quite untangle his feelings about the revolutionary device.  Mr. Clemens certainly made history when he wrote Tom…
As tutors we come into contact with dozens of essays, projects and presentations every week, through our writers. As we comment on and nudge along in our…
The issues of originality and plagiarism are very tricky things. The concept of ideas being owned by one single person has caused debate after debate as to…