An ode to a good cat.

When I was in high school, my drama department participated in yearly one-act show competitions. The concept was simple; take a show and...

Accessible ways to get into acting as a beginner.

A reflection on the oncoming changes that moving across the country brings.

Finding purpose in the aftermath. A discussion of environmental storytelling in Breath of the Wild.

It's not really something you think about when you're a little kid. I think I only really started thinking about it in school. I went to...

I arrived at my mental archive, ready to pull down the projects of the day, and found the doors barred. No Entry - Renovations in Progress.

A step-by-step guide to the most nerve-wracking part of acting.

It’s hard to believe it’s really been a year since I started writing as a job. I’ve been telling stories forever, and when I published my...

My mother has a lovely chess set that she kept beneath her bed when I was a little girl. Both sides are carved from pretty green and red...

In a time during which nothing else is certain, you would think that the marked passing of time in the form of annual holidays would...

The year is finally, finally drawing to a close. It has felt for me, as I'm sure it's felt for many people, as if it would never end and...

I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time. Here's how it went.

Right now, I want to talk about the things that have kept me going when it felt like the ground was slipping out from under my feet.

There has been a passage from a song in the musical Hamilton playing in my head today. In the eye of a hurricane There is quiet For just...

The Gunpowder Plot's legacy lies on one man and a mask, a hundred years later.

If you'd told me a year ago that I was going to be making the sharp, terrifying transition into becoming a full-time professional writer...

I’ve always been academically gifted. I was a straight-A student in a school where the lowest A-grade score was 94 out of 100. I held...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...

My self-esteem reached its all-time low in middle school. I was a fat, tall, acne-prone girl with big, thick glasses and too-long hair,...