Because this is my last semester at USC Upstate, I'm taking Senior Seminar: essentially, a 15-week-long writing workshop for a capstone paper. Knowing that I was going to take this course, I brainstormed all year for topic ideas. Writing 25 pages is easy for me, but a good, meaty thesis can be difficult to come by. … Continue reading Scrap: Connecting the Dots
Author: K.W. Colyard
Kristian Wilson Colyard (she/they) grew up weird in a one-caution-light town in the Appalachian foothills. She now lives in an old textile city with her husband and their clowder of cats. Their fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld and Diabolical Plots, and is forthcoming in Seize the Press. Her nonfiction has been published on Bustle and Tor.com, among other places. They're on Twitter and Instagram @kristianwriting, and you can find more of their work online at kristianwriting.com.
7 Prophetic Words
This week's Wordy Wednesday continues the running theme---philosophy, religion, and sevens---with a list of seven words on the subject of prophecy.
SCRAP: Literature Study Tips
"It's not what you read: it's what you can get away with not reading. They don't expect you to read every single word. They're purposefully overloading you so you can develop the skill of selective reading and figuring out what you need to know." Tim Lemire, I'm an English Major---Now What?
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As summer ends and we all gear up to face another season, another semester, another year, think of autumn as an opportunity for a new start, and take these very fitting words and do something with them.
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