Work experience: If you are applying to an internship position, it is very understandable that you do not have an extensive work history. But do not omit work history; even if it is was not a technical job. For example: If you had a job “flipping burgers” last summer, but you did ...
And suddenly, we were out of school and she revised what I’d assumed was a permanent code of nihilism and remade herself as a wife and mother—skilled and sarcastic, cooking and sewing in a fabulous flurry, having sex, glugging rum into a blender—and so, following along, did I. Deli...
Yet I hesitated joining them, either because the quality of their reproductions left a lot to be desired (even without an archaeologist’s eye for detail) or because I couldn’t agree with their ideology. It was a surprise for me to learn that in November 2015 there would be an event at...
Describing taste can be a fun way to keep your reader intrigued by the details. So often we forget to describe the way something might taste or what that taste means. We can write straightforward description of how a character is experiencing a taste, or consider other ways to convey it. ...
A con artist character, for example, might put these principles into action. You may even keep Behavioral Science in mind when facing the daunting process of creating an agent pitch letter. The lesson here, with a broader lens, is that there are things you learn or come across in your ...
police station for a lie-detector test, see “An Inside Job.” In sum, I lived a fairly typical small town Midwest boyhood, with the usual teenage antics that feature in some of my poems, while next door was a thriving steel city with a lot of good-paying union jobs but also a ...