How copying others’ writing can improve your own
I’m a big fan of copying others’ work in order to learn how to do something new,…
The audience and the author
When I was 14, I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction. I published a chapter about once a week…
The impossible task: “Deep blogging” on the go
There are many reasons I’ve written so little on this website, chief of which is that I…
Website traffic on the brain? Your writing sucks
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot more about website traffic. How many people are coming to our…
You are bumptious and I am lachrymose
In my last year of High School, my AP English teacher had us learn 10 new words…
The writer’s relationship with time
Yesterday, I came across a letter that Charles Dickens wrote to Maria Winter in 1855—a woman with…
On writing
If Maggie Stiefvater (a very famous and brilliant YA author) can reuse Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ title…
On being a reader
One of my greatest assets is that I’m a reader. If that sounds anti-climactic you’re probably not…
Delete: A writer’s best friend
In May 2010, I was 10,000 words shy of completing a 40,000 word dissertation that would culminate…