I want to be a profound writer. I really do. I want to say something important that means something. I want it to be my calling to make great contributions to the literary world. This isn’t about being famous. It’s about writing...
In this post, we discuss how to write a five-paragraph essay that works, regardless of subject or topic, with a simple—but effective—plan for completing a successful essay. As a parent of five children (three now in high school), I’ve...
Writing villains in memoir takes a special kind of honesty. In this feature from the July/August 2019 issue of Writer’s Digest, William Kenower offers his take on the challenging task. There are no villains in memoir—unless you count yo...
Poziga said: ↑ But in the long run, I’d like to earn enough money to buy a sailing yacht/boat. That’s my goal, to sail and write on the boat (and to have an Alaskan malamute, they are so damn beautiful ). Click to expand…...
You mention that book a lot. It’s great that it inspired you, but I would advise including it or any nod to it in your own book. I’m assuming your book is set in the future, maybe not even on earth. Didn’t that book come o...
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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