September 2010
5 posts
Waiting
I study a lot, and I write a lot. This is why I am at my desk, typing away at 2:44 a.m.
But I want to be in charge of my own schedule. I want to move to New York City and get a job as a barista, but my real job would be to write for children, and write for my mother, and write for those who live in trailer parks in the Ozarks, and write for those who live on the Upper East Side, and write for...
My Blogging Goes Professional
This semester, I have an editorial internship with a newspaper called the Liberty Tribune. When I told my boss that I had a blog, she created a new task for me: managing my own blog on the Tribune website. (I didn’t tell her that by blog I really meant tumblog, which doesn’t really translate to much blogging experience at all. But, hey. She doesn’t have to know.)
My blog is...
Inception is Finally No Longer Trending on Twitter
Doesn’t matter. I want to make a quick post about the movie Inception before I move on the homework that I really should have begun when I left class at 3:00.
Today in my creative writing course, we discussed character-driven stories and plot-driven (genre) fiction. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this lecture from Dr. Walters, but this time he put an interesting spin on...