The Writer With A Cause

(beCause I must)

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  • Unpacking the BUFRIEDO in Looking for Alaska

    By: Haley When writing, have you ever felt haunted by backstory you need to explain in order to make everything else you want to say make sense to your brilliant reader? BUT the backstory isn’t THE STORY you want to tell so you don’t want to spend too much time talking about it, but you…

  • “Looking for Alaska” taught me this about writing

    By Haley aka @thewriterwithacause A playlist to listen to while you read Intro I’m trying to become a better writer so I’m reading like one. Here’s what I’m learning from Looking for Alaska by John Green. Quick Info ONE: Go to the library to find ancient etchings You never know when you’ll find ancient etchings…

  • Perhaps we will inhale and exhale in accidental synchronization

    June Novel I’d like to tell you a story. I think I must try to tell the truth, because even if I end up telling a lie there will be truth in the fact that I tried. If I try to tell the truth, and it comes out slant—perhaps that’s the way it’s supposed to…

  • The Great Deceleration

    Steph 1 Earth has lost hold of herself. Sun bleeds red around the contours of each river and valley and mountain and wheat field; all is suffused with this warning signal sent from our sun, and we have no collective answer to this alarm. I am twenty-nine, and according to new math I will not…

  • A note from an ordinary person

    Just as the river where I stepis not the same, and it,so I am as I am not. ——Heraclitus, “Fragments” 29 September 1904 I wonder at everything, and everything is a wonder to me. I do not know where this comes from, just that it lives within me and maybe emanates from me. I assume…

  • My White Rose Atop the Hill

    In order to fully appreciate the writing set before you, you must first be privy to the wry intellect of our narrator. She will often appear to be keenly naĂŻve in the realm of reading people, but intrepid reader, I am here to inform you of the veil our narrator wears. This appearance of naivety…