Blog Post 2.2: (An Attempt To Use) An Effective Break (Well)
“A professional student? We had one of you in the family before,” she said, her piercing blue eyes fading quickly from the present, back to somewhere less cloudy. I smiled as the brogue slipped off of her tongue and brought…
Blog Post 2.1: An Effective Break
“And I expected, as the fissure closed, that my first wife would disappear. I was wrong.” This simple paragraph break is effective in Callahan’s short essay “Chimera” for a number of reasons. The style of the second paragraph, a simple…
Blog Post 1.2: A Shred of Good Advice
“You must fight these phrases or you’ll sound like every hack. You’ll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is…
Blog 1.1: Thirty Minutes and One Hundred Dollars
The fall of my junior year was a particularly mild season, filled with morning coffee and cigarettes on the steps of the Met and illicit walks through the park during lunch. I spent my days engaged in high academia, challenging…
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