Writing Lessons & Advice: Book It Turns Forty
Millennials, like me, grew up with some unique cultural experiences. While we indulged in the earliest, if not the best, years of cartoons, video games, internet, and music, we also read books to earn our own pizzas. Millennials, like me, remember this as the Pizza Hut Book It Program (or just the Book It Program). The premise of the Book It Program was simple (and free): reading goals are set between October and March for students between preschool and sixth grade. Goals can
Writing Lessons & Advice: Theme
Theme is the heart of the story Many of the necessary story elements have tangible aspects that make them easy to identify or develop....
Writing Lessons & Advice: Journaling (for Mental health)
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 co
Writing Lessons & Advice: Writing with Titles
Whether you are writing research into an essay or--like me-- casually blogging about pop culture, some deliberation may be encountered...
