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 ...
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...
"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...
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....
“Everything not saved will be lost”. –Nintendo “Quit Screen” message So TKZers: What epigraphs have you used in your books? Do you have a favorite epigraph? * * * Here’s the epigraph from Lacey’s Star: “The truth is bitter, but with all its bitterness, it is better than...
As mental health professionals, my wife and I reject that definition. Instead, we embrace Aristotle’s concept of “eudaimonic happiness”: the daily pursuit of meaning, mutually supportive relationships and becoming the best possible version of yourself. The heart of the course is an academic, ...
Any time you spot an adverb, look for an opportunity to remove it — and choose a stronger verb to convey your meaning instead. For example: Quickly walkcould becomestride. Greedily eatingcould becomegobble. You should also look out for phrases that describe how someone does something. For ex...
She is later saved by someone Boyd hired to watch over her. Then, Ava decides to take out the head of the drug ring so she can be the queen bee and it turns out it’s some elderly woman. And they get in a fight. And the elderly woman kicks Ava’s ass for a while before she...
“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. ...
Yet these two are friends for life, but life is, as always, far too fleeting and much too brief. Second, more importantly, is the relationship between Will Halloway and his by then middle-age father Charles. The book is written as a reflection from an adult Will, meaning by the time ...