Author: Courtney F
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A Writer’s Greatest Tool is a Book
My stories and poems were mine first, they were nurtured with me in mind. The magic inside of me was developing. I was becoming a writer again.
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Kyle Wiens Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar and I Wouldn’t Want to Work for Him Anyway
African American English is absolutely good English. It is full of vibrant expressions that can make even the blandest sentence come to life.
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Multimodal Text: Many Pathways to True Expression
My original mode of communication was a bit limiting, I began to brainstorm what other forms of communication and its medium I could venture into.
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Multitasking Ourselves into Brain Rot
At any given moment, I could be immersed in one task and be disrupted into handling another. My brain just always felt on the fritz.
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Failure is not Awesome, Failure is Acceptance.
A life without failure is a fallacy, a ruse. Those who avoid failure are already in the mist of it. Yes, failure is a lesson, but it is still defeat.
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Revising: Let Me Count the Ways
Kudos to Donald M. Murray for completing the boss-level stage of shitty first drafts while also having the balls for excellent final drafts,take that Dila!
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Shitty Writing: We All Do It, No Matter What George Dila Says
Whilst Dila may be averse to admitting it, he writes shitty first drafts too. The perfectionist in him just will not allow it to be a shitty first draft.
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Ten Ways to Think About Writing: My Thoughts.
As a poet, I understand the importance of repetition, it creates a foundation in your writing that your reader can expect and it creates that memory.
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Authority or Identity, that is the question.
Alan’s mistake here is being immovable in his writing – there was no compromise or new choice made to evolve in his new position.
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Finding Your Style and Voice
You cannot possibly write anything regardless of style, leaving yourself off the page. When you write, you are in everything.