Katharine's Writer's Block

As established in a previous lesson , fifty thousand words is a general minimum for a novel. Believe it or not, many writing enthusiasts strive to meet that mark within a month during an event called National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo), held every November since 1999. More than just a numeric goal, NaNoWriMo gives interested participants free access to resources that foster community, accountability, and creative development. When a new project is in the works, a new

A well-rounded story has characters, plot, setting, and theme. Without these, a story falls flat. Additionally, a story can be defined by many of these elements. The plot can have up to seven unique structures that identify how development pans out. While theme, characters, setting, and content help distinguish the literary genre of your story. There is one more quality to consider: word count. A story’s word count is something of a technical feature. A MasterClass guide on

Key ingredients of a typical story are setting, characters, plot, and theme. A story’s plot can have unique qualities that ultimately...

How do I decide what to cook? The things that either I or my husband like are a good place to start. I narrow down the options further...

One small task in my full-time job is to review resumes. I do so to make sure potential training staff meet the state’s criteria for...

A study from Stanford University identified the top twenty errors found in undergraduate writing. The number one error is using the...

Lately, I’ve been practicing cooking pancakes. I’ve learned that cooking them on my mini-griddle makes them really thick but not done in the middle. I get the slender size and circular shape that I like when I pour right into the middle of a hot, open skillet, but the batter has to be the right amount and consistency as well--not too little and not too runny. There’s a delicate balance to it. Writing with English vocabulary has a similar delicate balance. One wrong word can c

I kept diaries as an adolescent. I imagine them as something like a rite of passage, a tradition practiced during certain stages of life. The teen diary is something popular, yet sacred. On one hand, works like Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl to the Princess Diaries and to Diary of a Wimpy Kid show how literature and entertainment have embraced both the diary-keeping act as well as their contents at times. Yet on the flipside, some diaries are marketed with key locks or

Today’s lesson is loosely based on a Twitter post... The fuller context of this remark is within a growing battle between human- and...

Blog, blogging, blogger...these are commonplace words that have gained traction in society within the last twenty to thirty years. As...