A round up of articles and guides I’ve written over the years for Right Stuf Anime, North America’s premier anime webstore.
When Writing Feels like Squeezing Blood from a Stone, try Stone Soup Instead
Stuck writing that paper/presentation/email? Feel like there’s nowhere to start, let alone enough content in your brain to carry you through to the end? Maybe what you need is a stone. Figuratively, of course. (Unless you feel like hunting through…
Don’t Bribe the Admissions Office and Other Useful Application Tips from Cracked
If you’re working on applications right now – college, vocational school, anything that requires a transcript – do yourself a favor and read today’s Cracked article about the worst mistakes students make on their college applications. If nothing else, you…
Don’t Assume Your Readers Know Your Jargon
I have a pretty big vocabulary, but I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know every word there is, especially when it comes to industry-specific jargon – or worse, industry-specific jargon that has different meanings in different industries.…
Tips for Writing Research-Based Articles
Recently, I was asked to write a long-form article about the history of anime in Japan. I was confident in my knowledge of the subject matter (that’s why they asked me, after all!), but as they say, you don’t know what you…