Want to get the creative juices flowing, but not interested in writing the Great American Novel or being the next e.e. cummings? Why not a try a…
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.
Join the UCWbL in celebrating Banned Books Week! On Monday, September 26, from 10 am to 1 pm we’ll be reading from a selection of frequently banned,…
Attention, UCWbLers! Research Team here! Have you ever wanted to know how students feel about your work as tutors? Have you ever wondered how many tutorials the…
As we approach The National Day of Writing on October 20, it seems timely to look back on the experiences that brought us to cultivate our skills…
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey…
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What Was YOUR First Book?
The books we read as children can have profound influence over us for the rest of our lives. Your first book can be like your first love…
Over the DePaul summer term, the CMWR held a weekly Book Club in collaboration with the English Language Academy, and our selection was the teen-fiction thriller The…
Here at the UCWbL, many of us believe in the value of “shitty first drafts,” an idea popularized by the writer Anne Lamott. When beginning a piece,…
“Talking and eloquence are not the same,” Ben Jonson once observed. “To speak, and to speak well, are two things.” In his new book, Microstyle, Christopher Johnson,…
When you’re running short of ideas for your writing, there are a few methods via which you can try to get over the proverbial block that sits…