Katharine's Writer's Block

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...