A few years ago, my novel writing class had a high-profile guest speaker talk to us: the award-winning author of a YA book we had been assigned to read about a week prior. I was pretty jazzed about it considering how much I'd enjoyed the story. I've had predominately good experiences with meeting published authors [...]
I wasn't going to do a Thanksgiving post, but then I got to thinking of how far I've come in the last year or so. I went from having zero likes and scant amount of views to having a fair few faithful readers who are willing to read my stuff and give me their feedback. I [...]
I've noticed something a bit startling about myself: I am prone to ranting. However, I like to think of my rants as well-constructed and justified. More often than not, they spawn from a place of righteous indignation about things of no real consequence. Most of my rants revolve around terrible writing in the plethora of [...]
A few weeks ago, I was given an assignment to create an autobiographical piece for my documentary class. No big deal, I thought. I talk about myself on my blog all the time. Producing a 10 minute video over a subject I know intimately should be no struggle. It is such a struggle. I've amassed [...]
My boss went out of town to a business conference in another state and asked me if I wanted to watch her house and look after her neighbor's cat while she was gone. She had forgotten she told her neighbor she would look after the tabby while he was out of town, so she would [...]
I have been writing in this blog for a little over a year now, and I can honestly say I love doing it. I enjoy being able to communicate my ideas through a medium I'm at least moderately competent with. It was a gamble for me to start this blog, but in the long run [...]
WARNING: POST CONTAINS TRACE AMOUNTS OF TONGUE-AND-CHEEK HUMOR. Author's Note: Big Ben actually refers to the bell inside of the tower and not the tower itself. However, since everyone calls it Big Ben regardless, I will refer to Big Ben as the tower, clock, and bell for coherency's sake. As part of the British Isle [...]
I was using the bathroom before my 11:00 class, when I noticed the utility cupboard was open for some reason. It had multiple quotes written on the inside of it, all in magic marker or pencil. I have no idea why people wrote on the cupboard or why it just happened to be ajar when [...]
There are two weeks of school left before summer vacation. Normally, I would be in full-fledge panic mode, but seeing as this is my 5th year in college I give myself a slap on the back just for showing up to class. I've changed my major two or three times which has hindered my progress [...]
When I was a kid, I didn’t care about coloring books. My mom bought them in bulk because she heard coloring could help improve my garish handwriting, but I hardly even touched them. For the most part, I’d color half a page, then get bored and draw things in the margins. I couldn’t really get [...]
The Crooked Pen 