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Apr 14, 20225 min read

A Breakdown of Advice: Scholarship Application Essays

Today, I will be following through on a suggestion that I was sent following my previous post. As a quick backstory, their children all...

Mar 17, 20224 min read

Back to the Drawing Board

Purposeful Prose began with an exploration of planning in writing, and I stumbled on the multi-layered process of constructive planning....

Feb 17, 20225 min read

The Part Where They Explain What Went Wrong

Intuitively, we understand that perfection isn't reality, and we still expect black and white answers. While that's a very common...

Jan 6, 20224 min read

"It is a story that promises to get better." - Part 2

Anything can be discussed in therapy. A session revolves around the participant and what they want to discuss that day. A discussion with...

Nov 18, 20215 min read

The Importance of Forming New Habits

It's common for writers to develop rituals in preparing for, executing, and finishing a piece of writing. For some writers, those rituals...

Sep 2, 20216 min read

Shaped by Expectation - Part 1

In academic settings, students are often expected to find the best possible way to produce fact and analysis of fact without knowing the...

Apr 15, 20216 min read

Taking Agency in Writing

Thus far, as I have been reading post-process theorists, each has personally acknowledged the revolutionary nature of process theory,...