C. Hope Clark at Writers Weekly bones up on how the academic life can help a writer:

School days. Those ghastly remembrances of how skinny, fat, awkward, embarrassed, untalented, shy, or uncool you were.

Head back to school and let your comrades, alumni, and teachers know how you've become a writer. Your schools offer promotional coups for you. Most schools love to revisit old students and flaunt the successful as a reflection upon their ability to mold youngsters into triumphant adults.

Why not feed that frenzy and offer your own material to bridge that connection to high school and college buddies? School-related avenues for your sales and promotional pitches are as simple to find as ABC.

Read on here.