Worldly Words: How Travel Enhances Writing

Hello again!  Hope your week is going well. This week I’m discussing one of my favorite things in life — travel! Upon graduating (which is three weeks away!), travel is one of the first endeavors I plan to embark on. Less than 24 hours after my graduation ceremony, I’ll be boarding a plane with my […]

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How to Create Your Online Writing Portfolio

Welcome back creative friends! Hope the weekend treated you well. I’m pumped for today’s post because it revolves around the entity you’re reading this on — my online writing portfolio! I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post around why you should build your own writing portfolio and how to get started. First things first, let’s […]

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How to Get Your First Paid Writing Gig

“I really need to start freelancing. I’m so broke.” “I need to freelance because I need a little extra cash to spend on the weekends.” “I want to freelance because I just don’t like the idea of working for one place full -time.” “How did you get your freelance gigs? I keep emailing places and […]

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Why Study Journalism?

May 1, 2016. I was seventeen years old & at the finish line of my high school career, trying to master the balancing act of  cramming for final exams, finding the perfect prom dress and the perfect white A-line wedding dress I was required to wear for graduation. With a million and one different deadlines […]

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Is Ghostwriting Ethical?

Happy Halloween creative friends! Welcome to my first *official* post on my website. Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d touch on a spooky subject that’s come up a handful of times throughout my college career: ghostwriting. For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghostwriting, ghostwriting is the act of writing material for someone else […]

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Welcome!

Hello! I’m Madeline. Thank you so much for checking out my website. Here you will find articles I’ve written for various publications over the years and some original blog posts. For work I’ve published in other publications, please check out the Portfolio page. For my blog posts, please check out my Writings page. Overall, this […]

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