RU Writing?

This week interns Laini, Anngie, Emily, and Diana talk about all things to do with writing and mental health. Specifically, the idea of a "tortured artist", the romanticization of mental health struggles in the field of writing, and the benefits journaling can provide for your mental health. Laini: How Writing Makes You Happier, Smarter, and More Persuasive [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/habits-not-hacks/201408/how-writing-makes-you-happier-smarter-and-more-persuasive#:~:text=Writing%20closes%20out%20your%20%E2%80%9Cmental%20tabs%E2%80%9D&text=This%20is%20often%20the%20result,crashing%20due%20to%20tab%20overload] Anngie: Burning with Creativity: Authors Who Suffer from Mental Illness [https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/burning-with-creativity/] Emily: 83 Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress [https://positivepsychology.com/benefits-of-journaling/] Diana: Discover 8 Journaling Techniques for Better Mental Health [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/202001/discover-8-journaling-techniques-better-mental-health]

This week, interns Emily, Diana, Anngie, and Laini talk about the things that draw people to writing as a hobby and profession. This episode includes information on the different professions that you can pursue with a Writing Arts major as well as the positive and negative sides of being a writer. Emily - 7 Essential Skills for Writers (That Aren’t Writing) [https://medium.com/swlh/7-essential-skills-for-writers-that-arent-writing-f6b3b7979864], 7 Reasons Why Writers Write, and You Should Too [https://writingcooperative.com/7-reasons-why-writers-write-and-you-should-too-900262b455b] Diana - 24 Awesome Jobs for Writers That Offer Real Opportunities [https://www.trade-schools.net/articles/jobs-for-writers], 7 Reasons Why Writing is the Best Job in the World [https://www.grantwriterteam.com/blog/grant-writing/7-reasons-why-writing-is-the-best-job-in-the-world/] Anngie - When Did You Realize You Wanted to Be a Writer? [https://reflectionsfromaredhead.com/when-did-you-realise-you-wanted-to-be-a-writer/], Discussion: When Did You Know You Wanted to Be a Writer? [http://avajae.blogspot.com/2014/01/when-did-you-want-to-be-a-wrter.html] Laini - 15 Compelling Reasons to be a Writer [https://www.writersunplugged.com/15-compelling-reasons-to-be-a-writer/], 15 Famous Authors on Why They Write [https://www.flavorwire.com/303590/15-famous-authors-on-why-they-write]

For the first podcast of the semester, Anngie, Diana, Emily, and Laini explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of tropes. Do tropes make writing inherently bad? Are there good tropes? Can we redeem exhausted ones? Let's talk about it! Anngie: Book Tropes We’d Like to See Die [https://bookriot.com/book-tropes/], Tropes and Clichés in Writing [https://self-publishingschool.com/tropes-and-cliches-in-writing/] Diana: 5 Book Tropes That Need To Die [http://culture.affinitymagazine.us/book-tropes-that-need-to-die/], 5 Exhausted Movie Tropes that Need to Die [https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/5-movie-tropes-woke/], We've Outgrown the Ugly Duckling Transformation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa4bR5ZO3dM] Emily: Are Tropes Always Bad? [https://paperfury.com/ya-book-tropes-good-bad/], The Good, The Bad & The Overdone: Tropes in fiction [https://tauricox.com/2018/09/27/the-good-the-bad-the-overdone-tropes-in-fiction-and-how-to-use-them-effectively/] Laini: 9 Common Character Tropes and Tips for Avoiding Them [https://www.masterclass.com/articles/common-character-tropes-and-tips-for-avoiding-them#what-are-character-tropes], How Writers Can Reimagine Common Storytelling Tropes [https://www.well-storied.com/blog/how-writers-can-reimagine-common-storytelling-tropes]

In this episode, the Writing Arts Interns, Marissa, Tara, and Laini discuss the process of writing a novel for the first time. From the many emotions faced to the shared experience of creating, they offer honest insight on the difficulties of taking on such a large project. Marissa - How To Write Your First Novel [https://medium.com/the-everyday-writer/how-to-write-your-first-novel-b6aad16624d1], How to Write Your First Book [https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-your-first-novel#how-to-write-your-first-book] Tara - How to Start Writing a Book: A Peek Inside One Writer’s Process [https://thewritelife.com/how-to-start-writing-a-book/], 8 Novel Writing Tips for Beginners [https://writingcooperative.com/ready-to-write-your-first-novel-79ceb4c68d28], First Drafts Suck [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cg0uPWuh-M] Laini - How to write a first novel: 10 Do’s and Don’ts [https://www.nownovel.com/blog/how-to-write-a-first-novel-guide/], Know thyself… by writing your first novel [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/29/know-thyself-by-writing-your-first-novel]

In this episode, interns Marissa, Laini, and Tara talk to Professor Mikulski about writing comedy. They talk about cancel culture, sexism in comedy, and the differences between conservative and liberal comedy. Marissa - Cancel Culture Is Not Real-- At Least Not In The Way We Think It Is [:https://time.com/5735403/cancel-culture-is-not-real/ ] , Grappling Not Only With Louis CK But Sexism and Its Power in Comedy [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/11/16/grappling-not-only-with-louis-c-k-but-sexism-and-power-in-comedy/ ] , and Waiting for the Conservative John Stewart [https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2015/02/why-theres-no-conservative-jon-stewart/385480/ ] Laini - When It Comes to Comedians, Where Is The Line? [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/controversial-comedians_n_1755995?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMr2Y_DrQRvaMZZU7Ue4Foo--Lg48FWYcWN7eT9nQjovUSJtSt8GhlAtZl_qRrokfwLY7_taLnFsng1joVZITqwTEDZhjumETEsEg8iBPEc5zvToyvq8p58NPiIMTFMGtp3hjtUF_zJ-83W6XmQi6UeELDGmXUNASDTqgnkg8kve&guccounter=2 ] Tara - Gender and Genre: What It Takes to be Funny [:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/controversial-comedians_n_1755995?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMr2Y_DrQRvaMZZU7Ue4Foo--Lg48FWYcWN7eT9nQjovUSJtSt8GhlAtZl_qRrokfwLY7_taLnFsng1joVZITqwTEDZhjumETEsEg8iBPEc5zvToyvq8p58NPiIMTFMGtp3hjtUF_zJ-83W6XmQi6UeELDGmXUNASDTqgnkg8kve&guccounter=2 ] and Cancel Culture Isn't Canceling Comedy, Its Improving It [ https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/cancel-culture-comedy ]