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Long River Review

UConn's Literary & Arts Magazine

Tag: Inspiration

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LRR, April 23, 2025May 7, 2025

Written by: Hannah Dang Dear readers, artists, and writers. I hope your morning, afternoon, or evening, as you’re reading this, is going well.  As I’m writing this, I’m sitting comfortably in a patterned, wheat-gold chair at UConn’s Writing Center on a quiet Wednesday evening. It’s the middle of the week,…

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The Dreaded Writer’s Block: 4 Ways to Help Overcome a Lack of Inspiration

LRR, March 9, 2021February 8, 2025

Camryn Johnson on overcoming writer’s block and a lack of inspiration.

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Writing in Quarantine

LRR, April 21, 2020February 8, 2025

A novice’s guide to finding the strength and motivation to actually get stuff done By Lauren Ablondi-Olivo If you’re anything like me, writing is hard enough as it is without a literal, global pandemic going on around us (creepily similar to the dystopian futures you read about in Station’s Eleven,…

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How the Big Screen can turn writer’s block into writer’s fuel

LRR, March 11, 2020February 8, 2025

By Kelly Deneen Writing is difficult. Not only is the physical act of writing frustrating and often grueling to get down, but a lack of inspiration can be defeating. If you’re like me, you may gravitate towards reading other writers’ work to fuel your own ideas. Although reading another person’s…

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Becoming the Writer That I’ve Always Been

By: Julia Alexander

LRR, March 1, 2017February 8, 2025

Ever since I could read and write, I have been infatuated with storytelling. I remember the desk in my childhood bedroom overflowing with half-filled notebooks and the scraps of torn out pages. My handwriting, barely legible to anyone but myself, was scrawled across papers that were stalked high like mountains….

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The Inconvenience of Inspiration

By: Mairead Loschi

LRR, February 12, 2017February 8, 2025

Ever since I was young, inspiration has been my fickle friend. Let me set the scene: it is a late August evening, just creeping toward dusk. My sister and I are playing on the front lawn of my Grandma’s summer home. My mom remembers me rushing in through the sliding…

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Ten Cool Things From Nature for Your Literary Inspiration

LRR, April 27, 2014February 8, 2025

Welcome to the week before finals, UConn. I’m betting that plenty of us fall into the category of “having no free time to recreationally read and write” these days. I could give you a list of books you should read and movies you should watch, but at this point, I’m…

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Feed Your Inner Wanderer

LRR, February 28, 2014February 8, 2025

“A man cannot become wise until he has weathered/ his share of winters in this world” – from The Wanderer, trans. RM Liuzza *** Though the wind-chill was still below zero this morning, little February is coming to an end and taking winter with it.  Spring is just 20 days…

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