I’ve stared at blank screens more times than I care to admit. The cursor blinks. The word count sits at zero. And somewhere in my head, a voice asks: how much space does 250 words actually take up? It’s a question that sounds simple until you realize it’s not really about math at all. It’s
I spent three years teaching composition at a mid-sized university before I realized that students weren’t actually confused about play titles. They were confused about everything else, and the play title was just the visible symptom. The real problem was that nobody had ever shown them the logic behind formatting rules. We just handed them