by 5 Hundred Words | Dec 15, 2014 | college admission essay
It’s getting damn close to the due date for college applications. So, in the midst of all the pressure, you might well be getting to that place of just crashing and saying, “I can’t do this anymore, I’m just sending it. No one deserves to live this way. I want my real...
by 5 Hundred Words | Nov 4, 2014 | college admission essay
Spam the meat and spam the mail have the same PR challenge. They don’t seem genuine, appealing or have any real flavor. People work hard to avoid both, and when it comes to spam mail, people just can’t delete fast enough, unsubscribe themselves, and curse under their...
by 5 Hundred Words | Oct 5, 2014 | college admission essay
A lot of writers try as best they can to adhere to, or at least keep in mind, the Eight Rules for Writing of Kurt Vonnegut (author of Cat’s Cradle andSlaughterhouse-Five, among many others). While the rules are generally for fiction writers, they all are equally...
by 5 Hundred Words | Sep 8, 2014 | college admission essay
If you’re knee deep in your essay, or knee deep in thinking about writing your essay, here’s a heads up once you’ve got a first draft. It’s a way of making sure that you haven’t slipped into lazy writing, which basically means not...
by 5 Hundred Words | Aug 23, 2014 | college admission essay
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader, no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” — Robert Frost All of us who enjoy writing are tortured by Mr. Frost’s quote because we know he is correct, and curse ourselves daily trying to build...
