I am in the midst of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Since I majored in English, some people expect all types of writing to come easily for me, but writing fiction is basically completely terrifying. So this year, I decided to take on the
Even Pros Don’t get it Right the First (or Second) Time
Like any good aspiring scribe I like to read the blogs of people in the publishing world, and I recently came across two posts from BookEnds Literary Agency that made me remember something: Writers at all levels are pretty much dealing with the same problems. These posts are aimed at people who someday hope to
Who Says You Need a Paper to Go to the Writing Center?
My favorite kind of tutoring appointment is when a student comes in with no paper at all. This might seem weird to some people not familiar with us, and for good reason. If you’re going to the writing center, shouldn’t you have…a piece of writing? Nope. In fact, this can sometimes be the best time
Tutoring for the deaf community
I would like to take this opportunity to talk about a topic that I am interested in and plan to write about over the course of the semester for my directed writing assignment. That topic is tutoring for the deaf community. This topic interests me because over the years while I can not sign I
Welcome Back!
On behalf of all of us at the Marian E. Wright Writing Center, welcome to the University of Michigan – Flint! For returning students, welcome back! In addition, welcome to the Writing Center’s fancy new(ish) blog. Set up by Writing Center tutors Scott Atkinson and Roger Austin, we will be using this blog throughout the
Welcome to the blog
Welcome to the official blog of the Marian E. Wright Writing Center at the University of Michigan-Flint! We at the writing center invite you to join us here as we discuss everything from just what it is we do at the writing center to the occasional (and perhaps geeky) rant on some of our own thoughts