5 Things You Never Noticed About Every Listicle You’ve Ever Read

In our class discussion of writing as content, we’ve talked about producing content that is optimized for search engines. This prioritization of style over writing has given rise to the listicle — a web article in the…

The Difference Between Reading and Writing

In the beginning stages of my educational career, my parents and teachers constantly preached the importance of reading. They would often say something along the lines of, “reading makes you smarter.” Looking back on the early stages of my education, the…

Eating Isn’t Selling Out

There’s a common image of artists as starving, acapitalistic beings, refusing to sacrifice their art for the worldly pleasures of money. The successful artist, the myth goes, is a sell-out: to make money means one is no longer a real artist. Scraping by is the sign that one is…

Politics in Work

WARNING: This publication contains politics (focus is mainly on religion and LGBTQ) and the mention of the word “freaking”. If this is something you can not read without lashing out, I suggest not to read it. I apologize for the use of the word “freaking” and for any opposing political views, these…

A Problem With a Letter of Intent

Have you ever applied for a job and the potential employer requested a letter of intent or a paragraph about yourself and why you want the job? One of the hardest things to do when applying for a potential job is having to, essentially, brag on yourself, while trying…

RE: Bullhorn Creative and Writing Locally

I found Brad Flowers’ presentation to be the most engaging of our guest speakers’ so far. He was to-the-point and his visuals were welcome.

Perhaps his most interesting point was regarding Bullhorn’s identity as a business based in…

How to Write a Resume From Someone Who’s Never Written One

This semester alone, I have become quite an expert on the art of writing resumes. Fact is, you don’t need to have written a single draft to know exactly what the finished product should look like. Nothing’s new; most employers…

Internships are Weird

It quite surprised me to learn how much of the process of finding a career is dependent on internship and volunteer work. I’ve done quite a bit of volunteer work back when I was in high school in fighting Autism, and still do when I get the chance. That said though, now I’m heavily…

The Un-Lavish World of Writing

All writers remember their very first story or poem, penned by their own hand.

The feeling of success and the sigh of accomplishment. We have had the feeling of excitement, as we think, “this is what I am meant to do with my life!” We imagine that we…