In honor of the holiday season, I've made you guys a collage prompt! It was ridiculously hard to condense the season into just a few photos, but I've tried my best. For those of you who haven't done a collage prompt before, the concept is pretty simple-- just be inspired by all or any of the pictures and free write. One particularly fun challenge...

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 If you're like me, songwriting has always been an impossible art with some convoluted magical process that can only be executed by the musically gifted, some notable examples being famous artists like Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, and Julia Michaels. But as Taylor Swift describes it, songwriting is like "a glittery cloud [that] floats in front of your face, and you grab it at...

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 Although poetry is more than the words it's made of, there are methods you can use to better translate the image, emotions, or thoughts in your head onto the page and recreate the moment. So after you are able to transfer your poem onto paper, consider some of the following aspects of it to see if you can better convey what you mean...

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Poetry is one of my favorite forms of creative writing, and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. Now, you probably know a good amount amount poetic devices from school: rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, similes, idioms, personification, assonance, consonance, etc. Because of this, I won't go into detail on each. However, many times, the way poetry is taught in classrooms is through poems with more...

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