Summer Reads for a Narrative State of Mind

by | Jun 9, 2013

College Application Essays Fun Reads to Inspire your Storytelling Skills   Nothing helps you channel the style and voice of narrative writing than reading it. Writers, like Cupcake Brown, are masters of telling true stories in a fictionalized style. This is what...

College Essays Are Like Mini-Memoirs

by | Aug 14, 2010

I just read a memoir where the author shared a piece of writing advice that Toby Wolff gave her.  Wolff wrote “This Boy’s Life,” one of the best memoirs out there. Anyway, memoirs are books written about yourself. In a way, college essays are like...