About This Blog

As students, writing is a big part of our everyday lives. While you may not call yourself a writer because you don’t smoke a pipe in front of a typewriter, as someone who uses writing often chances are you’re a writer.

So many of us are writers, but we don’t think about writing much beyond when we’re tasked with doing it. Since we don’t spend much time thinking about ourselves as writers, we tend to let myths and misconceptions about writing guide us.

Our objective with this blog is simple enough; the MythBusters use science and experimentation to bust myths about science, so we're going to use writing and explanation to bust myths about writing. Simple as that.

Understanding what writing is really all about not only helps improve your writing process, but gives you an opportunity to understand how you write and how you came to feel the way you do about writing.

By busting these myths and taking some time to understand how we arrived at them, we hope to shine some light on how the writing you’ve done before might be affecting the writing you do now and to suggest that maybe the reason writing is unpleasant for you has more to do with how you’ve been taught than anything else.

With all that out of the way, let’s bust some myths.