Encouragement Articles

By Chelsea HindleDear Writer, I know how you feel. I know you feel like loneliness is swamping you. I know you feel like no one understands you. I know because I’ve been there before. Loneliness can be a debilitating emotion. It can cut us off from our friends...

By Allison GraceYour work-in-progress is an irredeemable disaster. There’s no point in going on. No one is ever going to read your writing. You’ll burn all your notebooks and go live in the jungle. Monkeys are better company than people anyway. This is the end....

By Allison GraceCollege is hard enough on its own. But add in writing, and you’ve leveled up the difficulty. Whether you’re on campus or online this year, college is going to take up a significant portion of your life. Sometimes, that means you can’t write as...

By L.E. WilliamsWhat do you do when writing feels like a chore?Imagine with me for a moment, dear writer. A writer, scrolling listlessly through a cluttered document of half-finished scenes and bare beginnings of ideas. Inspiration ran dry days—weeks—months ago....