The importance of place and setting in literature ca nnot be overstated, from the busy streets of a vibrant city to the beauty of a remote countryside, it serves as the canvas upon which an entire narrative can unfold. The deliberate creative choice of generating a setting provides a backdrop for the characters to come […]

The questions everyone, professors, friends, family members, managers, seem eager to ask me lately are: Are you so excited for graduation? Are you ready to be done? Every time, I try to hide my pause, my hesitation, (I thought I’d get better at it after being asked so much), but each time the asker picks […]

Salar de Uyuni from Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s unusual to come across a salt flat, and even more unusual to walk upon a salt flat that is worth ten thousand square kilometers like Salar de Uyuni. Salt flats are special because they are created after drying up for thousands of years. […]

After developing a love for reading I learned one simple lesson quite quickly, stories can alter the course of entire lives. I truly don’t think it’s a stretch to say poetry changed my life. When I got into reading, I swiftly found a love for poetry. Reading classics like Edger Allan Poe and following modern […]

This week I had the opportunity to interview Penn State Harrisburg’s very own Ellen Stockstill, Ph.D. Professor Stockstill teaches British Literature and Critical Theory in the School of Humanities. On December 31, 2023, Professor Stockstill published her book book Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels and it “argues for a reconsideration of the novel’s history and […]

The blank page is a weird thing. Within it are endless possibilities, and yet for so many of us trying to produce that first stroke of the pen or brush it feels endlessly confining. I can’t remember a time when sitting down to start a new drawing or writing project didn’t give me butterflies – […]

Have you ever gotten up to begin your day and have no idea what to do or what things to accomplish? Does this lead you into a spiral and cause you to not do any of it? Well, congratulations you’re just like so many other people in the world. Myself for example, I tend to […]

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, passion is an intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction. Passion is also labeled as an emotion one individual may have, but what does passion have anything to do with the world? Passion is what gives us the strength to get up from bed every day, it’s what pushes […]

Growing up with severe ADHD I could never imagine how people could sit with one singular activity for more than a few minutes, much less staring at a piece of paper with words for longer and call it enjoyable. Yea I was raised on bedtime stories as a little kid. The stories of Percy Jackson […]

In a world that is filled with digital distractions and rapid-fire communication, the small act of journaling often gets overlooked by most writers. Yet, keeping a small journal can be an invaluable tool both serving as a sanctuary for mental health and a springboard for creativity. At the core of the concept, a journal can […]