I am working on an essay and I think I will have it finished within hours to a day or two. The essay is about Beethoven(real life Beethoven, not my fictional Beethoven based character), and more specifically, why I call him the master of ke...
When I tell people that I was an English major, the first thing they ask is, “But what can you do with that?” The second is, “Say something in Shakespeare!” From my experience, there seems to be a general consensus that English li...
English teacher here. I agree in general with the idea that a machine can’t effectively grade an essay, or at least not yet. However… If machines could accurately mark grammar, punctuation, spelling etc (SPAG) and assign a score...
DaveLu said: ↑ I get great ideas that I want to follow, but they just end up leading me nowhere. It leads into mind numbing exposition and excessive description. My ideas just turn into a mundane series of events. This problem is made eve...
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This week’s writing prompt will do double duty, working on your creative writing skills by reimagining a classic tale and practicing how to sell your story to an agent. Creative Writing Prompt: It’s My Story and I’ll Pitch if I Want T...
WD Books editor Amy Jones has seven great reasons to be excited about this year’s Writer’s Digest Annual Conference—an opportunity to meet some of our authors in person! During the time between each Writer’s Digest Annual Conference...
May 6, 2019, by John If my essay were… I love writing essays. There is no sarcasm intended in the previous sentence. I genuinely do. I love writing it, responding to the question, and seeing it as a unique way for me to express myself. Bu...
Writing essays is unavoidable in any school setting. Essays are long, tiring and intimidating, which means they’re usually put off until the last minute. If you’re mere hours away from a deadline with barely a page worth of words, fear ...
So I have decided to read some personal essays and create some off my own. To eliminate writers block from never leaving the house. I assume it will be personal, a lot of the things I will be forced to write about that could serve as story ...