Category: Life as a Writing Student

You’ve spent the hours, you’ve revised, you’ve asked opinions, you’ve battled that endless writer’s block and come out on top. Congratulations, dear writer, it’s time to find where to publish. It may seem like there is an infinite abyss of confusing options, and there is, but this guide will help…

I’m serious, it was $3.00. There may have been a small sales tax, though.   Let’s face it, being a writing student is hard. You decide to go to a university to fuel your passion for writing and probably make it your career. You love to write—maybe that’s the only passion…

Any writer out there can probably identify with this: writing without a finish line in sight is difficult—the kind of difficult that has me wanting to curl up into a little ball, quit school, and just bury myself in retail work for the rest of my life. At least then,…

When I decide to write, I have one key phrase that I keep in the back of my head: “Just Keep Writing.” It’s a phrase that I mostly felt inspired by through wrestling, specifically a wrestler named Kevin Owens who is a prizefighter who loves to bet on himself while…

Everyone who’s ever picked up a pencil, pecked at a keyboard, or attempted to string together a coherent thought knows the unyielding agony associated with writer’s block—traumatic memories of blank pages staring back at you, a white void demanding to be fed new words so as it can grow to…

Sometimes the most important pieces are the most difficult to write. I learned this in one of my writing classes when I set out to write a personal essay about my father, who was never very present in my life due to his long-term drug abuse. Before I began writing…