A continuing dialogue on the art and the science of writing.
by G. Connor Salter Getting rejection slips is always difficult. It doesn’t even seem to matter how big your project is, even getting a 500-word article rejected can hurt. However, all writers deal with rejection sometime in their careers – some would argue it’s a kind of initiation. Here are three reminders to help you survive […]
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By: Rebecca A. Schriner, Graduate December 2016 I’ll admit it: I was nervous when the big assignment for my Author Platform class was creating a blog. While I’d been in the PWR major for three years, my specialty had always been editing. Not writing. I’d tried a writing blog once. Little stories that came to […]
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by Luke Wildman I scrape my fingers over my scalp, then turn aching eyes back to my computer monitor. For the next four or so hours, I know my Thursday evening will be a blur of editing articles, brainstorming titles, texting questions to writers, and working with The Echo team to create the best weekly newspaper […]
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by G. Connor Salter You’d think more people would’ve shown, I thought. I was sitting with four other people outside the PWR classroom in Nussbaum—Andrea Gregory, two Taylor alumni, and Ben Wolf, founder of Splickety Publishing Group. It was May 6, 2016, and Wolf had offered to come give a free evening class on how […]
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by Nichole Parks I don’t write dark humor on my best behavior. There’s no holding Mom’s hand in a gift shop where glass trinkets, home décor, and china tea cups are made for looking, not touching. I don’t write on my best behavior. I break things. Mainly, walls. When humor writer Jim Watkins taught a […]
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by Hannah Haney I always knew that I wanted to be an editor, but I had no idea I could be an editor and a student. I started interning with Relief Journal in the summer of 2014, right before my junior year. I proofread for the blog section of the journal and emailed the bloggers […]
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by Kate Jameson Storytelling is an art no matter what form it takes. I’ve always had a passion for theater, but it wasn’t until college that I discovered how much writing and acting have in common. I always knew, as most people do, that the scripts have to be written by writers, but that was […]
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by Josh Beaumont “There are always two sides to every story” is a line we’ve all heard whenever an argument is at hand. The same idea applies to stories. In fact, given the amount of characters and multitude of events a story can have, there can be many more than two sides to every story. […]
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by Kathleen O’Malley First of all, my title was technically untrue. Your character does exist, although only in your mind for now. If you write your story well, he or she will exist to your readers, too. But how do you get to know someone whose personality you’ve created? Here are some strategies I’ve discovered […]
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by Charnell Peters I’m a little creepy sometimes, and my friends and family are not afraid to tell me. Although I think it should be socially acceptable to stand very close to strangers and listen in on their conversations, it’s not. And as much as I wish the act of intently observing didn’t conjure the […]
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