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November 2011
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“All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night. (via madeofglass-)
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“Every now and then I’ll run into really good writers who have nothing to say....”
– Neil Gaiman, Advice for Aspiring Writers (via quotare)
March 2011
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February 2011
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“I am a writer. I think, I type, I drink.”
– Hank Moody Californication
January 2011
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December 2010
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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June 2010
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April 2010
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“We must leave this terrifying place tomorrow and go searching for sunshine.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via suzywire)
“Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.”
– Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
March 2010
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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November 2009
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October 2009
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Academic Discourse
From formatting to context, the variance in papers a college student turns in weekly only adds to all the other stress. With psychology departments requiring APA format, English departments pushing MLA format, and history departments not specifying any format, the old elementary school rulers are being dusted off by the dorm-dwellers measuring margins and spacing rather than proof-reading and...
Race Theory
Racism in writing, not an issue that is regularly addressed but one that exists subtly. What does it mean to write as a white/black/other person? What racial subjects must said writer address? Zora Neale Hurston challenged the paradigm of writing, composing Their Eyes Were Watching God and other works strictly in ebonics. Though she was criticized in perpetuating an “incorrect” way...
Post Colonial Feminism
More so than any other minority in writing, female writers are marginalized. What famous female writer can you name beside Jane Austen and JK Rowling? Students dread taking “women in literature” classes and such because for many years the only female writers that could reach the level of publications were those that wrote for the male dominated publishing industry and the male...
Identities
The first voice you hear is not your own. You hear a lot of voices before you ever get a chance to speak. It is those voices, the voices of your parents, your teachers, the kids on the school bus, those voices that either cultivate or destroy your own. As a beginning writer in an elementary classroom, you write to the teacher and to the class. As you grow and edit and experience you begin to...
September 2009
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Process
Writing, like all other arts, is a process; and the writing process, like all other artistic processes, cannot be taught, only shown. In the most elementary art classes, students sketch out their drawings in forgivable pencil that can be erased and edited and only once they are satisfied with their drafts do they add the permanence of paint. Words like “draft” and...