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The Two-Faced Coin of Language

  By zaelyna | 15 March 2010 - 09:03 | ,
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I love language. Being a writer, how could I not? Language is the tool by which we communicate complex, detailed messages between others of our species. It’s how we learn, how we express our emotions. Especially for writers, it’s how we share stories from our lives and our imaginations. Aside from all that, the biggest reason I love language lies within the dissection of individual words. I’m not multilingual with any fluency (alas… but working on it), but I do know that English at least has synonyms for everything. The beauty in this is how it enables writers to choose … Continue reading →

A Lesson in Analysis

  By zaelyna | 11 January 2010 - 21:03 | ,
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Four years of university, flawed. Roughly 50 courses taken, and maybe half-a-dozen of those classes proved to be advantageous to [my] expectations of a ‘higher’ education. …I feel cheated. Thankfully, my professor for American Renaissance targeted a collective problem in literary analysis. Every lecture in that early-morning period actually allowed me to grow as a writer. Rather than an endless supply of academic papers written in ‘vomit’ format (quote author, summarize points, repeats for required length), I’ve been steered back toward proper analysis. My final paper for AR contains little more than a phrase or two quoted from any of … Continue reading →