Writing about one's experiences helps them heal from their painful past and find meaning in life. Three of Emily Dickinson's poems have also been analyzed with regard to the mental distress represented in each, and the author presents three of their own poems to show similarities in ...
In an extreme example, Viktor Frankl used his experience in a Nazi death camp as inspiration to help othersthrough his writingwith his bookMan’s Search for Meaning.You can let negativity overwhelm you, or you can use your experiences to inspire yourself in a cathartic way through your words....
"Good morning, My lady." Surprisingly, it was the voice of a young woman. Natalie had imagined that it would be a man who would help her to alight from the carriage. She raised her head and met a pair of dynamic c...
17 years after Karl’s moment of Michelob profundity in the garage, I was sitting in a conference room at Western Michigan University looking at a class of creative writing students, all in their early 20s, all lost souls. It was the last year of my PhD. And in my private life, someth...
My baby, my love, likely saved my life even when I couldn’t save his. BIO Rachel Moncada was born in Portland, OR, and currently lives in Vancouver, WA. After 18 years working in the medical field, she is now a student at Washington State University pursuing a BA in English and ...
As a result, the book proved to be a great way for me to work my way back into writing after last year. A good deal of the emotional content was already spelled out in the original source material, meaning I didn’t have to do a deep dive into my own emotional world, which I am...
She had saved eighteen dollars to buy a pony; the money was still in her room. She was mature for her age, concerned about whales, yet so innocent that she believed Sea Monkeys would come out looking like that ad in the comic books. Reggie smiled at me through her tears. The agent ...
Tone is one of the most important ways we grasp the meaning of what someone is saying. If someone says, “I love you,” in an angry, sneering way, it doesn't matter what their words are saying, the meaning will be completely changed by their tone. In the same way, tone is crucial...
“That murdering thief, as you put it, saved my life.” And my soul and my sanity, but I didn’t tell her that. He’d taught me to be a man by day and a woman by night, to use a sword and pistol and to captain a ship. He’d been my love, my strength and my mentor. ...
Of course, no tool is without its limitations. AI Comic Factory, while incredibly fast, is somewhat limited in terms of customization. You won’t get the level of control that, say, a student might have. The characters and backgrounds are AI-generated, meaning they may not always turn out...