About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew.

Portrait by Brian Belew.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Writing Shysters

A comment showed up on my last post that I marked as spam: “It’s not so simple to do a good enough written essays, preferably if you are occupied. I consult you to define [essay mill] and to be spare from query that your work will be done by custom writing service”

All of that is [sic], of course. The writing really makes you think they’ll do good work for you, hunh? These kinds of pay-for-essay services, often called “essay mills,” are often outsourced to people in India or the Philippines who don’t realize they’re writing essays for cheating American students, and, as an AFP article — “In U.S., some students buy — not try — to excel in school” — recently pointed out, of horrific quality.

But that’s not really the point, is it? Even if the quality of writing and analysis were good, turning in an essay you did not write is cheating and violates the ethics standards any reputable university has. It could get you a failing grade or kicked out of school. Oh, and it makes you a marginal, reprehensible person who doesn’t belong in college in the first place.

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