Chapter Five Part 1 So you know now that one way to find the themes of a text is to look for ‘quotable’ bits, and another way is to see if it’s stated in the ending somewhere. But what do you do if the theme isn’t actually ever stated outright? (Hint: sobbing in despair is […]
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I’ve been sick since Friday a week and a half ago, and as of writing this, the plague shows no signs of abating. If by some miracle I’m well on Wednesday when this goes live, I might swap it out for a ‘real’ post, but for now, just touching base to say hi, here I
Chapter Four Part 2 Okay, so that’s the story,* for those of you who haven’t heard it before or needed a refresher. * I mean sort of. The shape of it is right. I probably might have, um, embellished a few things. But it’s still ‘The Hare and The Tortoise’, okay? So now my question
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So #Mermay is a Thing, in case you weren’t aware: for the month of May, artists of all stripes get together and create mermaid-themed stuff, and if you want to, there’s a daily prompt you can play along with as well. So, in keeping with the #Mermay theme (since I even managed to do a
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Chapter Four Part 2 I’m going to give you a quick exercise I use in class to teach this. It involves reading a short fable, and then telling me what the moral of the story is. (In fact, if you grew up on the stereotypical western fable diet, you don’t even need to read it:
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You may have noticed, if you’re an astute, noticey sort of person, that the cover for How To Theme lists the series as Inkprint Writers #2. Number two? you say (assuming you’re one of the astute noticey people). But what happened to number one?! BEHOLD. NUMBER ONE. Previously The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About
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Chapter Three Okay, so now that we’ve established the groundwork, we can get down to the nitty-gritty of why you’re actually here: figuring out what theme is I said at the end of chapter one that people often find it easier to divine the point of non-fiction; this is because it’s often stated clearly and
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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:Made-It Monday: Glorious Grazing I Cannot Write, I Has The BunsIs Tolkien Making Me Rethink My Primary Story Universe?
