Projects
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman
- Literary Analysis Essay
- Critical Book Review
- Digital Scholarly Edition
- Literary Corpus Analysis
- Literary Translation
- Novel
- Short Story
- Poetry Chapbook
- Stage Play
- Screenplay
- Personal Essay
- Memoir
Write your own literary analysis essay
- How to Do a Close Reading (Harvard College Writing Center)
- Writing About Fiction: Close Reading and Thesis Development (Purdue OWL)
- Writing About Poetry: A Step-by-Step Analysis Guide (Purdue OWL)
- Strategies for Essay Writing: Developing an Argument and Counterargument (Harvard College Writing Center)
Write your own critical book review
- Writing a Book Review: Critical Evaluation and Structure (Purdue OWL)
- Writing Book Reviews: Analytical Reading and Evaluation (Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services)
Build your own digital scholarly edition
- TEI by Example: Tutorials on XML Text Encoding (Centre for Data, Culture & Society / KANTL)
- Building Static Sites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages (Programming Historian)
- Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices (Open Book Publishers)
Conduct your own literary corpus analysis
- Corpus Analysis with spaCy: Text Parsing and Linguistic Annotation (Programming Historian)
- Corpus Analysis with AntConc: Concordance and Keyword Analysis (Programming Historian)
- Sentiment Analysis for Exploratory Data Analysis in Literary Texts (Programming Historian)
Produce your own literary translation
- Getting the Rights to Translate a Work: A How-To Guide (Susan Bernofsky / TRANSLATIONiSTA)
- The 2023 Manifesto on Literary Translation and Professional Practice (PEN America)
- Writing a Translation Commentary: Methodological Walkthrough (Penélope Johnson / Routledge) - Paid monograph providing a structured methodology for drafting an academic translation commentary and critical apparatus.
Write your own novel
- How to Write a Novel: A Step-by-Step Guide (National Centre for Writing)
- How to Structure a Novel: Tension, Catalysts, and Story Arcs (National Centre for Writing)
Write your own short story
Compose your own poetry chapbook
- Learning the Poetic Line: Syntax, Enjambment, and Lineation (The Poetry Foundation)
- Learning the Sonnet: Meter, Rhyme Schemes, and the Volta (The Poetry Foundation)
- Modern & Contemporary American Poetry — ModPo (University of Pennsylvania / Coursera)
Write your own stage play
- How to Write a Play: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Play (StageMilk)
- Modern and Traditional Stage Play Script Formats (Dramatists Guild)
Write your own screenplay
- How to Write a Screenplay: Planning, Outlining, and Scene Construction (No Film School)
- How to Write a Movie Script: Screenplay Format and Visual Storytelling (StudioBinder)
Write your own personal essay
- Tiny Masters: An Artful Trick to Writing the Personal Essay (Brevity / Sherry Simpson)
- So What's Your Point? Thesis Statements and the Personal Essay (Brevity / Kelly Sundberg)
- The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Vivian Gornick / FSG) - Paid craft monograph exploring how personal essayists distinguish the raw circumstance from the reflective narrator persona.
Write your own memoir
- Ignorance, Lies, Imagination and Subversion in the Writing of Memoir (Brevity / Lee Martin)
- Writing the Truth in Memoir: Don't Skimp on Objectivity (Brevity / Rachel Weaver)
- The Art of Memoir (Mary Karr / HarperCollins) - Paid craft manual detailing voice development, memory ethics, and emotional truth in autobiographical book-length narrative.