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Watching the Frantic Masses

Eliza Jaquays - November 6, 2012

So, to most of you it has only been a week since I gushed about my plans for NaNo and confided to all of you about my fears. For me it’s been three weeks and in those three weeks I realized something. I may pretend to be crazy, a lot of people maythink that I’m […]

Blocking the Action

Jason Arnett - July 6, 2012

Writer’s Block is the invention of a scribe who couldn’t turn an assignment in on time, who had too many other things on his mind (yeah it was a man who invented the cop-out, go figure), or was just plain lazy. Well, maybe not. Maybe being blocked is real. Maybe. But there are ways around […]

Exercises in Failure & the Editing Process

Ashley M. Hill - April 6, 2012

I hate editing. I have failed every goal I’ve ever set when editing. I stumble in the same spot every time. It’s not killing my darlings. Whatever, kill those bastards. I never liked them anyway. (Oh my god that’s such a lie, please, come back, babies.) I like going through the novel and finding the […]

Input/Output

Sara Lundberg - February 28, 2012

Just as writers get ideas from all around us, we also are influenced by everything we come into contact with. I dedicated a portion of my own personal blog entries to this phenomenon, which I affectionately call the Input/Output modes. Anything we take in inevitably affects what comes out. As a writer, I talk a […]

My Squishy Red Couch

Eliza Jaquays - January 20, 2012

When I entered college, I was suddenly required to write—and to take notes in class. My days in high school writing fanfiction in a spiral notebook while Coach “Drone-On” was discussing the civil war were over. I was completely unprepared. I needed to find a way to squeeze in hours of homework along with a […]