I hope I find you well! For those of you continuing with their studies during the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to share five tips I’ve learned over the course of the year to keep improving my grades during this difficult time. Concentration is challenging (I’m finding I’m reading sentences in module texts over and over;…
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Should We Write What We Know?
After reading Andy Weir’s Artemis (2017), I revisited the maddening maxim that’s haunted me for years. It’s the sentence written on the blackboard before the professor’s even turned around: Write what you know. Or even more confusingly: Don’t write what you know! The reason why Artemis stimulated this age-old debate is because; while I didn’t…
5 Benefits of Writing Stories to Learn a Language
After years of boring classes at school, the French bug bit me and its irresistible poison has remained in my veins ever since. As an adult I suddenly discovered how much I loved the process of learning a language. Everything from buying a new notebook to going out into the jungle of the real world…
What’s My (Writing) Style Again?
I think the master storyteller was right when he said: ‘If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot’—Stephen King King was referring here to the craft of writing; our use of language and the way in which each book we read…