While passing through Barnes and Noble the other day, I arrived upon something of a paradox in American media. As far as we’ve come as a free society, we’re really not communicating very much. By that, I don’t mean we’re not reading, watching, or listening to as much as we should. We simply lack [...]

Remember the moment you first dreamed of becoming a writer?
Maybe it was high school English class studying Dostoevsky’s social commentary on czarist Russia. Maybe you wrote a story and a teacher encouraged you to submit it to a school magazine. Maybe you majored in creative writing in college, mentoring under [...]

Good writing is hard.
Think of the countless rewrites you’ve done with a project even after coming up with a killer idea you know is just going to rock. Well, if you’re a creative writing student, or just someone whose friends get a kick out of your wildly-spun tales, you’re guaranteed to get read and likely [...]