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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...

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....

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...

"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...

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...

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...

Taking Agency in Writing

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