A random compilation of giant puppydogs for your personal edification, because when do puppies NOT make everything better? 🙂 What have you found this week on the web? Read more:On Being BraveTwo New Free Stories on Darkness & GoodAn Interview With Moi
Chapter Two Part 2 If you’re happy enough with this, feel free to move on to chapter three now. But if you’d like to consolidate your understanding even further, have a look at the sample introduction below to see some thesis statements in context. In each instance, you can see that the thesis statement clearly
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The common misery of the world feels overwhelming. Petty cruelty; major abominations; selfishness, thoughtlessness; slavery, abandonment, abduction, discrimination, hatred, you know the list, it goes on and on and on and on, and this is one of those weeks where it’s been grating on my soul more than usual, one of those months, one of
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Chapter Two Part 1 Wait, what’s a thesis* again? * Remember, thesis is singular, theses is plural. If it’s been a while since you last wrote an essay, or if you’ve somehow been writing essays all this time without understanding the concept of a thesis, let me break this down for you real quick. The
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Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
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This is the book that made me fall in love with Maggie Stiefvater as a reader. I really enjoyed the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, but Scorpio Races melted my heart and reforged into something bigger, brighter and stronger. So I LOVED that I got to teach it at school last year–and in that process,
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PART ONE Before we get to talking about what exactly a theme is, it helps to have a refresher about things like theses. If you’re super comfortable already with the idea of a thesis statement, let me give you the potted summary right here: Theme is to fiction as thesis is to non-fiction. Or, even
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Introduction Theme. Apparently, it’s a scary word, one that sends students, readers and authors alike into fearful fits, remembering the Bad Old Days of high-school English. (And if this doesn’t apply to you, congratulations! You’ll still learn something from this book, you just get to skip the anxiety stage. And if you’re still in high
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How To Theme is HERE! With epic thanks to both Krista Ball and Liana Brooks for prodding me into this via social media late last year. Chapters will be coming out twice weekly (Wed/Thurs this week, Tues/Thurs subsequently) here on the blog, or you can read it all immediately (in draft form) on Patreon, or
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Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
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