Then I Came to the Beginning The Walking Dead of Wall Street The F-Word
A creative-nonfiction piece about how I finally came to accept that I was, and could be, a writer. The essay mostly focuses on how I forced myself to give up on writing, and how I eventually came back to it. A magazine article in the style of The Rolling Stone that compares the Occupy Wall Street movement with surviving a zombie apocalypse, similar to the one in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. A research essay that explores student perceptions of university writing centers across the country, as well as here at the University of Michigan. The essay incorporates both outside and independent research.