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Zines 101
What is a zine? A zine is a genre that originally worked as a counter-culture method of information sharing. The format started as fan groups of media would write theories and fictions to share to...
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Getting Creative at the Writing Center
Typically, a peer tutor in the Writing Center will come across many academic, research-driven assignments. On the other end of the spectrum lies creative works, such as fiction, memoir, screenplays,...
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Tutoring Creative Writing
Like many of you, much of my love of writing comes from using writing and language in fun and interesting ways. Whether it’s been journaling, poetry, short stories or other genres, expressing yourself...
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Twine as a Writing Tool
Twine is an open-source software originally developed by Chris Klimas for interactive storytelling. Though projects can be expanded through code, users need not have such background in order to begin...
View ArticleTips To Tutor Creative Writing
I’ve been a creative writer for seven years and have submitted my short pieces to multiple academic workshops for critique and revision. And it’s not easy. Never easy. Whether fiction or nonfiction,...
View ArticleHow Can We Tutor Poetry?
When I talk to other tutors about helping writers with poetry, I’m usually met with one of two, opposing reactions: total excitement and curiosity, or extreme intimidation. For those of us who enjoy...
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“Writing the Real”: Creative Approaches to Creative Nonfiction
At one point or another, you will open WC Online and find that a writer wants your advice on making an essay more “personal.” Maybe a writer needs feedback on a memoir-in-progress just before workshop...
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Feedback Phobia
Navigating the Fear of Critique in Creative Writing: This quarter I gave myself a challenge: write and complete a short story. Growing up, I would always start many drafts of a story, only to give up...
View ArticleReflections on Writers Guild
Writers Guild is and has been an important part of the Writing Center for years and was one of the first places where I was exposed to a creative writing community outside of the classroom. In our...
View ArticleTutoring Techniques: Creative Writing in the Writing Center
I wanted to know if there were any principles or theories about tutoring creative writing, as opposed to academic writing. There aren’t many pieces of scholarship on tutoring creative writing in...
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