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The Hidden Connection between Fiction and Academic Writing

August 3, 2016
Student Contributor
Guest posts, The Writing Life, Writing Tips and Tools
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By Addison Lucchi, Guest Contributor Many people will say that academic writing is completely different from fiction writing, but there are definite similarities between the two modes of writing, and it’s precisely in these areas of overlap that the One Year Adventure Novel curriculum can be helpful.

Why Word Games Trump Daydreams

October 16, 2013
Staff Writer
Push Your Imagination, Stuck? Discouraged?, The Writing Life, Writing Tips and Tools
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Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer I daydreamed ferociously when I was a kid. Nothing pleased me so much as slipping away from people and situations to hunt fancies in my head. And why curb my imagination? Wasn’t daydreaming my source of creative ingenuity? I trusted to imagination to achieve my dream of becoming a writer, or, as I put it then, a “poetess.” Ha.

Why Write If It Doesn’t Pay the Bills?

Jared Schmitz, Guest Contributor Let’s assume you’ve decided to become a writer. Your choice is made; a lifetime of struggle and fulfillment within your own imagination awaits you. But no matter how excited you might be about this, you’ll surely find yourself asking—and it won’t be long, either—the questions at the heart of the matter: What is writing good for? Why should I write? What good am I, and who am I to be writing stories?