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The Value of Independent Imagination Reclaimed

By Kim Bussing August 13, 2014

Whether you’re working on a screenplay, a novel or creative nonfiction, no writer will agree on what the most important aspect writing is. Some will tell you characterization. Some will tell you...

Across the Atlantic, Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

By Kim Bussing July 30, 2014

Pembroke College of Cambridge University in the summer seems like something out of a novel. Expanses of grass (mowed and watered daily), exotic plants framing windows of buildings that have been home...

Busting Literary Publishing Myths

By Kim Bussing July 16, 2014

From my experience in a literary agency internship, it seems that a good chunk of the world want to be writers. A lot of people out there believe it’s just as simple as writing 50 or 80 or 100 thousand...

In Defense of English Majors

By Kim Bussing July 2, 2014

I became an English major because I like to read. In this economy and at a college where most students have their eyes set on high-powered consulting or Wall Street jobs, deciding to have an academic subject...

Discovering Local Literary Pride

By Kim Bussing June 18, 2014

To compare this summer and last summer would be like comparing my life before and after I went gluten-free: completely unrecognizable. Last summer, I was earning minimum wage at a restaurant in Tucson...

Finding Novel Procrastination in Prose

By Kim Bussing October 25, 2013

Now that midterms have officially hit and I’ve become swamped with papers and studying, I’ve decided it’s the perfect time to take up a new hobby: procrastination. I’ve finally been catching up...

Finding Today’s Truth in the Timeless Novel

By Kim Bussing October 11, 2013

There is something inherently special about a story that leaves an especially lasting impact. Any novel can be entertaining, cry-inducing or engrossing, at least until the last page. Those novels that...

Finding Life Lessons Between the Pages

By Kim Bussing September 20, 2013

Despite the fact that with the combined amount of internships and jobs we’ve held, we’re a poor representation of the rest of the employed and unemployed America, we’re still all entitled to quarter-life...

The Triumph of the Modern Tear-Jerker

By Kim Bussing September 6, 2013

At heart, I’m your quintessential book nerd. My favorite word is “bibliophile.” I get giddy going to the library. (Sorry to everyone out there who has received Snapchats of piles of recently checked...

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