Welcome to Day 4 of my personal month-late NaPoWriMo challenge. You can check out my previous post here, or click here for Day 1. I’ve been thinking a lot about people lately. Today, I learned some interesting (and very positive) things second hand about someone I had only met briefly, and I couldn’t help but … More Poem a Day in May Prompt 4: Character
Welcome to Day 3 of my personal month-late NaPoWriMo challenge. You can check out my previous post here, or click here for Day 1. Today’s poetry prompt? Prompt 3: Let’s write about food. And not because I’m totally obsessed with food and think it’s the key to world peace or anything. (I am, and it … More Poem a Day in May Prompt 3: Food
Welcome to Day 2 of my personal month-late NaPoWriMo challenge. Check out my last post for Day 1. Today’s poetry prompt? Prompt #2: Create a list poem. Start by choosing something to make a list about. The title of the list will be the title of the poem. For instance: “Things that Terrify Me Daily” could … More Poem a Day in May Prompt 2: Lists
I messed up, guys. I told myself I was going to do NaPoWriMo, (National Poetry Writing Month: writing a poem a day in the month of April), and about halfway through April I realized I’d missed the beginning of the month. I’m a bit of an all or nothing kind of person. I want to do … More I Missed NaPoWriMo? Starting in May Instead! 1st Prompt
It can be tempting to freak out a bit these days as a writer and avid reader. About e-books becoming more popular and potentially replacing physical books. About the fact that people’s attention spans seem to be getting shorter. Yet at the same time, there are incredible new platforms opening up that have led to … More Video Games, Writing, and New Media
This weekend, I’ve been getting ready to submit some short stories and poems I wrote for college in the hopes of getting them published. In the process of doing this, I opened up a story that had been rejected a couple of times over six months ago to reread it, and had a big realization: it … More Why Did I Submit This? Time to Revise Again
I don’t like to pigeonhole myself too much when it comes to genre. I studied creative writing in college (I’m a relatively recent grad), and I came into my college writing program knowing I enjoyed both fiction and poetry. I refused to identify myself as a writer of just one of them even though there … More Writing in Different Genres
This is part 3 of my review of Scrivener. You can read part 1 here, and you can read part 2 here. It’s taken me a while to finish these, but it’s time to (finally) wrap up this review. There are two more features I want to briefly highlight that really set Scrivener apart for me. … More Scrivener v. Microsoft Word: Final Thoughts
A year or two ago, my fiance (who was my boyfriend at the time) told me he was trying to find a better pen for taking notes in class. He was in college at the same school as me, studying engineering while I studied English. For him, it was important to have a pen that … More The Quest for the Perfect Pen
This is part 2 of my review of Scrivener. You can read Part 1 here. As promised, here’s the beginning of my comparison between Scrivener and Microsoft Word. This post will focus exclusively on organization during the writing process. The thing about Microsoft Word that is frustrating when you’re working on a long work is that … More Scrivener v. MS Word: Organization
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