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TUCKER ON Writing Well

Over 30 years ago, I received my bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Tennessee. Despite the passing of time, I still hold dear two items from my five-year educational journey: my framed diploma and a small book entitled “The Word: An Associated Press Guide to Good News Writing” by Rene J. Cappon. This […]

Ways Authors Can Use Tablets When Not Writing Their Story

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a fan of writing on a tablet. Yes, if you like to actually put pen to paper, many of the current generation models have a stylus with haptic feedback that really do the job. Also, I can type much faster than I can write, so quite often, […]

What’s the point of writing a diary? For me, it’s an expression of personal freedom

Obsessively narrating life can get in the way of living it. But my chronicling is a source of comfort ‘I know my account of events is partial.’ Under an awning at night with the rain coming down. On the top deck of a bus traveling between parties at opposite ends of London and leaning against […]

Writer Samuel D. Hunter digs deep to let loose his truth for ‘The Whale’

Writing “The Whale,” says Samuel D. Hunter, “felt entirely different than my previous plays. It was at once easier to write and more difficult, familiar but scarily vulnerable.” I didn’t set out to write a film. At first, I wasn’t even sure I was writing a play. Maybe it was something I needed to write […]

When memory speaks: Harvest of pieces from a memoir-writing workshop

I am an appreciative recipient of this holiday season’s most exciting book: a volume bearing the title “Reflections in Light and Shadow, an Anthology of Short Memoirs” (Sunshine Place, Manila, 2022). The book is the harvest from a memoir-writing workshop in 2021-2022 during the pandemic and was conducted at the Sunshine Place, Senior Recreation Center […]

How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT

Illustration: Andreion de Castro Earlier this year, I wrote about genre-fiction authors using AI in their novels. Most wrote for Amazon’s Kindle platform, where an extremely rapid pace of publishing, as fast as a book a month, is the norm. AI helped them write quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions. Would […]

NYE Celebrations In Shirley-Mastic + Sign Up For A Writing Workshop

The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Shirley-Mastic. (Patch Media) Good morning, neighbors! It’s me, Debora Whitehead, your host of the Daily. Let’s get this Tuesday started off right, with a quick dive into everything you need to know about what’s happening in town these days. Today […]

Why Reading and Writing Fan-fiction Shouldn’t Be Embarrassing

The opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. As a dorky preteen during the 2010s, I was bound to be exposed to the large world of popular fanfiction sites, such as Wattpad , AO3 , and Quotev . I would endlessly scroll through users’ […]

Memoir reveals gay writer’s struggle with homelessness, rape

‘A Place Called Home: A Memoir’ By David Ambroz c. 2022, Legacy Lit/Hachette $30/384 pages For David Ambroz, 42, author of the stunning new memoir “A Place Called Home,” one of his childhood recollections is of himself and his siblings walking with Mary, their mother, on a freezing Christmas morning in New York City. Today, […]

Kirk Thatcher Talks ‘Star Trek IV,’ Working With Leonard Nimoy, and Getting to Write Scotty’s Computer Joke

Multihyphenate Kirk Thatcher has been involved with a vast range of iconic movies and television over the past 40 years. From his first job, on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi no less, Thatcher has been crafting beloved stories that reach into all corners of fandom as a writer, director, producer, actor, and visual effects […]