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describe this woman. I had to interpret things on my own, it was very difficult at first because I had been spoon feed the details and the underlying meanings. This time I had to create those underlying details and become a creative writer. This sparked my interest again as a writer because I actually loved what I was writing about. I wrote about my time, my mother, my childhood, and songs that described me. Through that writing Mrs. Witteman had me do, it made me feel powerful. I gained a new…

Tough Love in the Big City: Roni Simpson Interview Where did you get your passion for writing? How did it get sparked? I started writing at seven years old. I started with poetry, I had a poem book my mother had bought me and I would write poems on a daily basis. In the church I was the youth leader and often I would have to get up and read some of my poems. I also would begin writing Christian songs for the church and that’s where my writing career pretty much started. When I went to college I…

me and the rest of the team, distributed books encased around the school, allowing the students to just read the synopsis, in doing so, they learned to read due to the stories and not by the covers. And moreover, I organized talks with Brazilian writers beginning their careers, who have published their works on their own or through a publisher, I contacted them and publishers for support material, such as books, bookmarks, and shirts to prize draw during these meetings. The authors told their…

For some writing may be a way to express emotion and let your creativity run wild, while others see writing as a nuisance and try to avoid doing it until it is absolutely necessary. There are people I know who write regularly in a journal and people who used to be like me. Writing had never come easy to me throughout most of my grade school life and even now I struggle from time to time. I could never relate to the friend who shared all her stories she wrote in creative writing with…

essentially anything, can be alluded to in literature to stimulate ideas and thoughts that may not be stated in the author's original work. These allusions can be based off of religion, mythology, art, literature, science; the possibilities are endless. Writers create these allusions to associate extra information within their writing, by referencing something in which they believe their reader would have knowledge of. This creates a connection between the two, normally separate sources, adding…

questions you didn 't even know you had. Most of my writing have been essay assignments based off books or research papers. It takes time and focus, but one of the pleasures I get as a writer would be seeing my thoughts unfold, and then to organize them which helps me see the bigger picture. I have grown tremendously as a writer since completing my junior author paper in high school. The author I choose influenced me as well. Elite Wiesel who is famous for the novel Night. He sends a strong and…

Writers should be familiar with logical fallacies in order to learn to avoid them. Logical fallacies provide false information that can lead to a loss of credibility of the author. If the objective of the writer is to persuade the reader, then the use of logical fallacies will not help them achieve their goal, but instead push the reader away even more. Listeners…

The short story Soldier of Fortune by Bret Anthony Johnston is filled with different writing techniques. He uses tone, scene, and description to make the story flow and feel believable. He teaches the reader how to create living, breathing characters, while still using symbolism to add mystery and foreshadow to the piece. While perfect for this story, other authors, to create their own pieces of fiction and creative non-fiction, can use these techniques. Firstly, the first paragraph sets up…

allows us to have “sovereignty over language” – that even if we jumble up our words or break grammatical laws, the power and emotion behind our language will always remain. As I personally struggle to have confidence in my abilities as an amateur writer, this was a lesson that I needed to hear: it does not really matter how I organize my thoughts or the words and…

was going through a Syfy phase so I choose to write about the apocalypse. I was the only girl in the class that didn’t write about their past experience with writing or write a short story about “the boy next door”. Knowing that I wasn’t a strong writer, I freaked out about getting my short story just right while everyone else in the class had finished their final draft and was ready to turn them in. So the next day I rushed to get finished and turned in my short story not being satisfied with…