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C. L. Craven
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Dec 8, 2021

Shooting Your Shot with Atypical Depression

My uncle took his life in 1989 when I was seven years old. He was the epitome of a “starving artist” and a wildly talented painter and photographer. He was also an addict and lived with mental illness. He took his life during a bout of depression because, as the…

Depression

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Shooting Your Shot with Atypical Depression
Shooting Your Shot with Atypical Depression
Depression

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Aug 16, 2021

The Dogs Who Made Me

When my Basenji/Beagle mix Dewey died, it felt as though I would die right along with him. My constant companion during some of the most difficult times in my life, Dewey had to be euthanized just two months after my partner of ten years died suddenly. …

Dogs

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The Dogs Who Made Me
The Dogs Who Made Me
Dogs

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Jul 10, 2021

Five More Ways Video Games Can Make You a Better Writer

For the last several months, I’ve been using Red Dead Redemption 2, a 2018 video game from Rockstar Games, to teach creative writing. Every week, students are assigned part of the game to play, along with a corresponding lesson and writing assignment to go with that game section. …

Fiction Writing

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Five More Ways Video Games Can Make You a Better Writer
Five More Ways Video Games Can Make You a Better Writer
Fiction Writing

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Feb 2, 2021

Everyone is Welcome…Except You

Online events and the barriers to networking when you’re disabled — You have just graduated with your MFA in creative writing! Congratulations! The world is now yours to do just as your professors advised you to do and network, network, network. The global pandemic means all networking events have shifted to online events and that means you can attend all of…

Accessibility

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Everyone is Welcome…Except You
Everyone is Welcome…Except You
Accessibility

5 min read


Jan 10, 2021

Accessible Publishing

The inherent ableism of traditional publishing “You must write Every. Single. Day. You will never make it otherwise!” “Start your query with a personal connection!” “Writers hustle! Good writers must love the hustle!” These were the lessons taught over and over throughout all of my writing education. Repeated to the point one might wonder if instructors…

Publishing

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Accessible Publishing
Accessible Publishing
Publishing

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Oct 11, 2020

Pride and Resilience in a Rainbow Mohawk

For nearly a decade, I’ve been walking my dog around my Chicago suburb donning a rainbow dyed mohawk. What began out of boredom and on a whim one day has, over the years, become something of a signature look. It’s how people know me, how people spot me from the…

National Coming Out Day

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Pride and Resilience in a Rainbow Mohawk
Pride and Resilience in a Rainbow Mohawk
National Coming Out Day

4 min read


Aug 7, 2020

Easy Captions for Content Creators

On any platform — You made a video! Maybe it’s your first, maybe it’s your 500th. Whatever the case, you have a video and now it needs captions. But…how do you get captions? And why do you need them? And if you’re uploading it to YouTube, surely the auto-captions provided by YouTube will suffice…

Tutorial

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Easy Captions for Content Creators
Easy Captions for Content Creators
Tutorial

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Published in Age of Awareness

·Jul 26, 2020

How Educators Can Support Accessibility

Even When Their Schools Don’t — All three of my degrees — a BA in sociology, an MA in English and literature, and an MFA in fiction writing — were earned online, from the same university. Having had lupus since the age of four, traditional school has always been inaccessible to me and because of this…

Accessibility

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How Educators Can Support Accessibility
How Educators Can Support Accessibility
Accessibility

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Apr 16, 2020

Grief-Gaming: Exploring Fallout 4 Through My Partner’s Eyes

Grief-Gaming is a series in which I will explore video game worlds playing as my deceased partner’s avatar. Games have been a gift in my life. They’ve not only given me a career but after my partner’s first stroke in 2017, they served as the greatest tool in her recovery…

Grief

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Grief-Gaming: Exploring Fallout 4 Through My Partner’s Eyes
Grief-Gaming: Exploring Fallout 4 Through My Partner’s Eyes
Grief

6 min read


Oct 20, 2019

What They Don’t Say

They don’t tell you at the hospital after you’ve unplugged your partner from the machines keeping her alive, that you’re expected to leave the dark room and go back home, and unlike in the movies and on TV, the halls aren’t empty. No, there are dozens of people there waiting…

Life

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What They Don’t Say
What They Don’t Say
Life

5 min read

C. L. Craven

C. L. Craven

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Writer | Editor | Video Game Nerd — Find me on Twitter @CyclopediaBrain

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