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I Believe in the Power of Books
View post: I Believe in the Power of BooksThis I Believe essays are prompts that ask anybody and everybody what it is they believe in. These collections of personal narratives follow genre constructs that use a belief statement followed by personal experience that support their belief. This is exactly what we studies in my English Composition class earlier this quarter. Below is…
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Post-Truth Criticism of The BBC News Interview with Trevor Noah
View post: Post-Truth Criticism of The BBC News Interview with Trevor NoahBy Kacie Fowler This is the final assignment from my communications class that tasked us with watching the BBC News interview with Trevor Noah from The Daily Show in terms of how they present news in the form of parody and how that differs from ‘fake news’. This paper answers specific questions we were given…
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Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
View post: Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance SpeechThis was the first assignment we had to write in our communications class. The task was to pick a speech of our choosing and analyze it in terms of the use of rhetorical concepts, theories, and paradigms. I had combed through about twelve speeches before choosing Malala’s. One reason I did choose this, outside of…
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Japan: An Intercultural Experience
View post: Japan: An Intercultural ExperienceBy Kacie Fowler This was an APA-style assignment from my Communications 101 class and also a bit about my trip to Japan (that came at the perfect time if we are honest). The assignment asked that we describe an encounter we had with a person and/or group from a culture that we are not from,…
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April Fools
View post: April FoolsOf course my second-first day of college would fall on April Fools, a holiday rooted in hoaxes and pranks. Being able to shift my career path and go to a “real” school (sorry Penn Foster) is a privilege I do not take for granted, but the imposter syndrome is already rearing its nasty face. What…
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Short Story
View post: Short StoryPrompt: Author writes his own murder before it happens. “Yah, yah, yah.” I drawl to my editor who has been hounding me all month about my new project. He’s been practically down on his knees, begging for even just a chapter to show the publishing team. “I’ll send it to you when its ready, John.”…
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Prompt: It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
View post: Prompt: It Was A Dark and Stormy NightAnother rendition of the stories we wrote in my high school creative writing class. I think this may have been one of my favorites. The prompt, “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…” was set upon us on Halloween in 2013. We had just finished up our study of Edgar Allen Poe and we were…
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Letting Go
View post: Letting GoI recently stumbled across a folder with a bunch of my creative writing assignments from high school. While most are cringe, there were a few that impressed me. Bellow is one titled “Letting Go” and was written as part of our eulogy study. My childhood beagle Sally, passed away from lymphoma a few years before…
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VICTORIA CANADA
View post: VICTORIA CANADANOVEMBER 2023 BLACK BALL FERRY PORT ANGELES, WA (Photo By: Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News) With the husband back home for the month, we wanted to take a trip and have a night to ourselves. My mother was gracious enough to stay with the kids at our house for our weekend trip. We had each been…
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October TBR
View post: October TBRSpooky season calls for spooky books! Here are my creepy reads from my TBR list that I hope to get through this month! If you have any other creepy/horror book recommendations, let me know! A collection of short stories by the King of horror and spook. I have read the first one, Autopsy Room Four…
WRITE. READ. REPEAT.
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs.”
-Stephen Fry
About the Author
K. Fowler
K Fowler is a bibliophile and an artist from Washington State. She discusses literary analysis, college life, and her own artwork and appreciation for other’s. K’s preferred mediums are watercolor and oil paint with subjects ranging from the natural world to fantasy and surrealism. While a full time student, she sells her art on eBay and Etsy, and is a full time cat mom to an opinionated tortoiseshell named Olga. K currently holds an Associate’s of Art and is working towards her Bachelor’s of English. The book and art communities are the key building blocks to humanity and reflect how we react to and interact with the world around us. Each person’s experience is unique and worth hearing. So let’s talk about it all: the everything and the nothing.
Everything With Nothing 