Katharine's Writer's Block

Reading, spelling, and writing and Standard English go hand-in-hand. In the double-negatives lesson , I alluded to the idea of Standard...

Story Star Life Simulator icon I’m a fan of simulation games. The sandbox, open-world, world-building, customizable, role-playing, and/or...

This lesson will be running shortly before my second wedding anniversary!  In honor of another wonderful milestone, I’m again drawing...

Millennials, like me, grew up with some unique cultural experiences. While we indulged in the earliest, if not the best, years of...

Theme is the heart of the story Many of the necessary story elements have tangible aspects that make them easy to identify or develop....

To the average Joe, the term show-and-tell might conjure up memories from early school days when they or classmates brought special items...

“What’s in a name, that which we call a rose by any other would smell as sweet?” In this well-known line from Romeo and Juliet , Juliet...

I’ve often thought of myself as a better writer than a public speaker, which I’m sure is interesting considering my previous ambitions...

I touched on commas in a general lesson about punctuation , but I feel the topic warrants its own lesson for a better focus.  As...

You have an essay project. You’ve decided on a topic, started some research, taken some notes on your findings, and maybe even have a...