Katharine's Writer's Block

I recently learned the old show, Mythbusters , is one of my husband’s favorites. He was home more often over the summer for reasons I’ll...

NANOWRIMO 2024 created waves last month by attempting to voice a neutral stance on the use of writing with artificial intelligence (AI).  NaNoWriMo neither explicitly supports nor condemns any approach to writing, including the use of tools that leverage AI. We recognize that harm has been done to the writing and creative communities at the hands of bad actors in the generative AI space, and that the ethical questions and risks posed by some aspects of this technology are rea

The act of handwriting-- cursive  or otherwise--seems like a dying art that’s fallen to the omnipresence of computer technology. Which is a shame considering how penscript is still prevalent and offers good benefits. However, keyboarding, touch typing, or simply typing, is nothing more than the act and skill of writing with a computer and is not without its own merits: Typing can be efficient.  Pushing buttons that correlate with letters or characters takes less time than scr

KISS has an odd song from the eighties called “ A World Without Heroes ”. Society would be quite a lawless, hopeless place without them,...

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....

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

Whether you are writing research into an essay or--like me-- casually blogging about pop culture, some deliberation may be encountered...