Katharine's Writer's Block

I’m a fan of simulation games. The sandbox, open-world, world-building, customizable, role-playing, and/or choice-driven elements this...

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...

Many of the necessary story elements have tangible aspects that make them easy to identify or develop. Central characters are typically...

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...

I feel a need to apologize...my pantsing ways have caught up with me. I recently realized that, in my previous lesson about plot and...