You do your best creative work not through trying to impress your ego, which is worried about how acceptable you seem and about whether you’re going to survive, but through dropping those aspirations and getting to the unadulterated creative impulse that first called to you. For a fiction wri...
Through MIT's OCW program, students can download a variety of undergraduate and graduate-level online college writing courses that cover topics in areas such as essay, expository, and technical writing for students interested in exploring a technical writing degree program. Course activities and format...
Program yourself by creating rituals and routines that inform your body and mind it’s time to write. I try to write at the same time every day. After I meditate, I have coffee, light a little incense (which replaced a cigarette years ago), and disconnect from electronic media. Always e...
The project is specifically attentive to the hierarchy of research, teaching, and service. It examines how the hierarchy plays out in the center and how writing center workers interpret and apply the hierarchy. While in many instances, the writing centers conform to it, they also resist it and...
I’ve been recording and sharing podcasts for more than a decade, with varying formats. For example, I started out mostly interviewing people, then transitioned to recording presentations, experimented with some individual monologue podcasts, explored discussion podcasts with co-hosts, and more. I ...
More high notes and wisdom from Iowa: Blawg Review #148For the second week in a row, Iowa--a Midwestern U.S. state known for French explorers, the great Sac and Fox tribes, solid people, fine writing and now nimble IP muscle boutiques--claims center stage in the world of legal ...
students. They help creative writing majors find the resources they need, And they will help them discover a meaningful work/school/life balance. Other resources include the UCF Mobile App, Writing Center, tech support, and more. The creative writing degree cost at UCF is the lowest on our ...
Wishing one and all a Happy Thanksgiving, for all we have to be thankful for. Janet Hulstrand is an American writer/editor who lives in France. She is the author ofDemystifying the French: How to Love Them, and Make Them Love You, andA Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the...
Disruptors don’t ask permission. Omaha native and media mogul Cathy Hughes built the first leg of her Urban One media conglomerate by being a disruptor. Nearly 40 years after purchasing her first radio station, Hughes[…] Soccer Brings Bob Warming Home ...