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 | Oct 22, 2014 | Writing
If you have never watched The Walking Dead, hopefully you at least know the basic premise. For the last three of you living under a rock, in a cave, beneath the ocean, here it is. A team of live humans run around a post-apocalyptic Atlanta, trying to avoid being...
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...
