Drafting Your Personal Statement - Step 2: Framing Concept
The flame frames the Olympics, and this kind of conceptual structuring device
can make a personal statement powerful.
Drafting Your Personal Statement - Step 1: Origin Story
In 15 minutes each week, this series of steps will help you build a solid first draft of your personal statement.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Norman Maclean
In a verbal tribute to the primacy of nature, as the foundation of all existence, Maclean describes the world at the beginning and end of time
Read MoreGreat Lines: Casablanca
Casablanca’s sentimental script boasts some of the most memorable and repeated lines in popular culture.
Read MoreGreat Lines: John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s style is uncomplicated and unadorned, but in these ways uncommonly clear and incisive.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth imagines the absolute truth of life and existence in the world around him, and within himself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Zora Neale Hurston
This blog series is devoted to great lines that strike - in literature, speech, music and film.
Read MoreSay It Crisply
This process of refinement - self-editing - is one of the most valuable any writer can undertake.
Read More2020: An End and a Start
Four Quartets is considered Eliot’s masterpiece, and its final lines suggest the culmination of his life’s work in this contribution: Life can be purified in the present.
Read MoreOn Changing Fortunes and Time Capsules
Writing poetry is a certain effort to encapsulate passing contemplations, which makes a poem something of
a time capsule.
The 5-Point Narrative: How to Plot a Short Story
Once the basic structure of a story is outlined, the writer is free to imagine and inscribe the rich detail that will enhance the storytelling and boost the performance of their work.
Read MoreState Your Person: 5 Action Points for an Outstanding Personal Statement
The impression the statement gives is the end product, and these efforts will help to ensure the force and success of that impression.
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