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Priscilla looked up from her textbook as Artemis wrangled her laundry basket through their dorm room door. “That was the longest laundry expedition ever. I was about to send a search party out. You’ve never been out this late!” Artemis hated the blush that rushed from her cheeks to her …

We had noodles for New Year’s, even though that’s technically a tradition for Chinese New Year. I’m not complaining–Dad makes really good beef noodle soup. “Hey guys,” I said about halfway through dinner. “When we go back to Columbus next week, I, um, I think I’d like you to meet …

It was finally Friday night, two weeks into the new school year. At nine o’clock, I was already exhausted. I had also realized that day that my period was late. Very late, in fact. I figured that the stress of a new school year had thrown off my cycle. But …

This year I set out to write a complete story in the span of 30 days. My plan was to write every weekday and not stop to edit until the whole draft was done. Despite the fact that I ramble often for other people, I have never sustained a personal writing …

I am going to try something exciting and unprecedented this November: National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo for short. The official goal is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. But people have expanded it to all kinds of genres and lengths from poetry to book proposals. The real …