No Filters: sinking academic standards and how fiction-writing tips can save them

Recently, swamped in the unequivocal disaster that is the second term of university, the changes in academic writing were again brought to my attention. One of my beloved professors (not even irony: she's a sweetheart) stated in her opening remarks about the expectations for her course that she doesn't mind the use of "I" in… Continue reading No Filters: sinking academic standards and how fiction-writing tips can save them

End It: Short Story, Long Story

It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers in possession of a good story must be in want of an equally good ending. In my own writing (and, I've been told, in many others' as well) the number of stories started is disproportionate to the number finished, regardless of polishing. Is it a sign of… Continue reading End It: Short Story, Long Story