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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When’s the last time you were surfing the web and came across a link that BEGGED you to click it? A headline that was clearly The Most…
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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?’…
Today on the UCWbL blog, new UCWbLer Hannah Bender has some excellent advice for those among us who yearn for that occasionally elusive “A” at the top…
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We’re Halfway There!
It’s hard to believe, but it’s already time for midterms here at DePaul! As the pressure mounts, we at the UCWbL just wanted to take a minute…
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Idioms, You So Crazy
Idioms are fun. They can also tickle your funny bone when understood literally as demonstrated by JustKiddingFilms. Their short films, If Idioms Were Real and If Idioms…
A writer sat down for his session and told me that he’d been working in finance for years, and he was only enrolled in the School for…
A frantic writer sat in front of me with an assignment due two hours following his appointment. This writer, an ESL student, wanted to fix the grammar…
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.
Anyone who enjoys live readings of scholarly and creative writing should attend this year’s Spring English Conference. Reading panels will take place between 1pm and 7pm this…