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3 Things You Must Have for a Good Writing Environment

3 Things You Must Have for a Good Writing Environment

By Michelle When you think of a writer, what comes to mind? A melancholy artist hunched over a typewriter? Li...

Letting Your Friends Market You

Letting Your Friends Market You

by Albert Leo As a writer, I’m often consumed in...

Show and Tell

Show and Tell

by Albert Leo For this week’s Essay Narwhals, I’m writing about how to show and tell. Let’s try that again,...

Flexibility in the Common App Prompts

Flexibility in the Common App Prompts

  by Albert Leo With the Common App essay being such an important component of an application, a lot of...

Starting Too Soon

Starting Too Soon

By Albert Leo You picked out a topic you’re excited...

3 Common Writing Fears and How to Swim Past Them

3 Common Writing Fears and How to Swim Past Them

By Michelle I was 7 years old, standing at the tiled edge of the pool, with all my classmates looking...