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Verb It Up
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Start With A Riddle, Not A Rationale
What do cinnamon, Stephen Jay Gould, and Kleenex all have in common?
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AI Sucks at Editing Podcasts
The manual method still beats the bot
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How Signposting Turns Confusion Into Curiosity
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Man Plans, But God Laughs: My WIP 6 Months In
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The Ultimate College Essay Checklist
WHY THIS CHECKLIST MATTERS
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Demystifying The Objective Correlative
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Does Concision Matter Anymore?
I’ve noticed a paradox in our digitally-addled age.
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What Is Lyricism? Part Two.
If lyricism is defined in part by musical language, its other essential attribute is resonance.
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What Is Lyricism? Part One.
One of the unexpected delights of this spring has been building a bespoke syllabus in the art of the personal essay.
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How To Craft Enduring Metaphors
I know of few literary devices more delightful than metaphors, those artful comparisons between two otherwise unrelated things.
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To Call Each Thing By Its Right Name
I was thinking about Christopher McCandless the other day.
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