by Aquinnah | Dec 20, 2017 | Praxis, Writing
The scariest part of writing a book isn’t writing it. The scariest part of writing a book is letting other people read it. You’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears into this monstrous stack of paper. It’s stamped with the title that you slaved over for weeks or...
by Aquinnah | Dec 15, 2017 | Praxis, Reading
This morning, at breakfast, a friend of mine made an excellent point. She’ll be moving to college at the end of this summer and, like most of the class of 2018, she is coming face to face with her future self. Because the same young women and men who felt that...
by Aquinnah | Dec 12, 2017 | Praxis, Writing
Fun fact: The ability to learn an entire classical ballet variation from a YouTube video is a skill– and not many dancers have it. That’s why, at the end of every year, one of my instructors assigns a variation that her ballet classes are required to teach...
by Aquinnah | Dec 10, 2017 | Praxis, Reading
Kindness is magic. Unfortunately, acting cold is usually easier than being kind. It’s easy to lose confidence in the people around us with facts like that, so today, I want to share six quotes that always manage to restore my faith in humanity. “I think I...
by Aquinnah | Dec 6, 2017 | Praxis, Writing
My first short story, written when I was seven years old, was inspired by my love for horses and Free Willy. The story was a school assignment, but the characters, setting and plot were all my own. The words flowed from the tip of my pencil like water. Writing was...
by Aquinnah | Dec 5, 2017 | Praxis, Writing
I recently asked my Twitter followers what sorts of posts they would like to read on this blog, and I was thrilled when one of them suggested the topic of character development. This post goes out to him and anyone else who’s interested in this—one of my favorite...
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