You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom. — Leo Tolstoy IN CURE, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s oracular depiction of how we repress our natural inclination for violence, free will is just a chimera. It is a […]
Timed free-writing — no stopping, no correcting, no fretting — can leapfrog mental paralysis to a “shitty” but valuable first draft of Korrina Duffy’s free-write notebook. Pen poised. Go! Free writing is for when you need to write the damn thing already. If you, like many, have a bad case of blank page syndrome, free […]
AI writing tools have the potential to revolutionize the way we write and create fiction. These tools use artificial intelligence and natural language processing to assist writers in various aspects of the writing process, such as character development, plot structure, and language usage. Using AI writing tools, writers can improve their writing productivity, overcome writer’s […]
Early in October I received a small package from England, which looked most interesting even before I opened it. The envelope celebrated “Her Majesty the Queen’s PLATINUM JUBILEE.” Five stamps carried the postage, each with a distinctive image: Soldiers from World War II; three lines from my favorite Percy Bysshe Shelley poem, “ To a […]
This one time, my dad bought me a house in Providence, Rhode Island. It was a two-story fake Colonial with yellow aluminum siding on Hawkins Street. We bought it from the bank for $55,000; it was one of many properties under foreclosure in the city in 2009. Dad and I spent a few days looking […]
Since 2007, Amazon has released its Kindle e-readers, making reading e-books a seamless and enjoyable experience for the masses. Here at Underscored, we’ve tested seven of its most recent devices and named the Kindle Oasis the best e-reader overall and the Paperwhite the best budget e-reader. The company has released its first e-reader with note-taking […]
Content writing or copywriting is a must for every business or person to make some presence on the internet. Without some kind of words, you cannot make noise. Content writing has been one of the good revenue sources for many people like us. Without some form of content, no website or social media post can […]
Although purple prose sounds pretty and like a way you would want your writing described, it’s actually not a good thing to have your writing described this way. If someone calls your purple writing prose, essentially, they’re calling it flowery. They think it’s too wordy, formal or trying too hard to be poetic. Although there […]
A few weeks before winter break, 17-year-old Kaden Hyatt sent a mass email to his Oakland high school, College Preparatory. He had just stumbled across a new artificial intelligence platform called ChatGPT . Hidden behind its innocuous name is a search engine on AI-laced steroids that can churn out original essays, solve complex math problems […]
ChatGPT’s ability to immediately generate text in response to any prompt is disrupting education . Many are concerned about what the use of this artificial intelligence tool means for the future of writing instruction and education. Public school systems in New York City , Seattle , Los Angeles, Baltimore , and Fairfax County, Va. , […]
