Author: ameliadirks

As a Creative Writer

College; the best four years of your life or, at least, some of the best. When you grow into an adult, steadily being hurtled towards responsibilities, careers, and life defining decisions. It’s overwhelming, exciting, suffocating, and nerve-wracking. As a creative writing major, I am thoroughly acquainted with this rollercoaster of emotions, especially when the casually […]

Make Good Art

About a year ago I stumbled across a speech Neil Gaiman gave at a commencement ceremony and the speech is something I find myself coming back to again and again. He opens his speech with saying, whoever you are, whatever you do, “you have the ability to make art.” When life gets rough, “make good […]