The Best Writing Tip: Cut with a Razor
BY AMELIA RAY Don’t ask me where but once I read that Keith Richards reportedly has a unique songwriting approach. Supposedly, he writes down every word that he feels and then goes back and cuts out every third, tertiary, word. This tidbit fascinated me, even though I had never paid much attention to exactly which […]
My Mother-In-Law Could Be an Orc
By Taryn Hochstrasser During my last year of high school, I wrote an essay based on one of the given topics. I don’t remember it well enough now to give an in-depth description, except that it was a sweet piece about a princess and dust motes drifting in the air, sunlight reflecting off their surfaces. […]
The Only Failing is Never Trying!
By Helen Aitchison Our lives are riddled with self-doubt. Some more than others. We worry, analyse and focus on the negative. ‘I can’t do it!’ ‘It’ll never work!’ ‘What’s the point?’ We’ve all heard it and we’ve all said it. We are our own harshest judge, most fussy critic and the one often unable to […]