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“What’s Wrong With Your Dog?”

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  Every time I land in a corner of the internet where no one’s arguing, fighting or calling each other names, I savor it. And the subreddit “What’s Wrong With Your Dog?” is as pure as they can get. Continue scrolling and tell me you’re not feeling calmer with each image. I dare you. #1  The Sad Face He Gives Me When He Can’t Sit In My Lap While I Drive #2  This Feeling #3  She Always Goes Like This When I Take Out The Nail Clipper #4  The Shelter Said She Was Shy And Wouldn’t Want To Be Around Us Much… But This Is What I Wake Up To Every Day #5  Wakes Me At 5am For Her Walk. This Is The Walk #6  How My Dogs Prefer To Nap… #7  He Heard The Treat Bag Open

Girl And Woman Memes

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  Take the Instagram account “Girl and woman memes,” for example. It hasn’t been around for long. The first post on the account appeared in February 2020, but it has already garnered a legion of fans. 152k, to be exact. The reason for this success is simple: people find the content relatable. Apparently, it perfectly describes what it’s like to be a woman in 2021. Continue scrolling and let us know if you agree! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7

Awkward Texting Scenarios

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  With how much we text on a daily basis, it’s inevitable to encounter an awkward texting conversation now and then. For example, you send your roommate a detailed text about all the cleaning you did last night, asking her to please keep her dogs away from the polished kitchen floors. Her response? “Noted.” Immediately, you panic—thinking your usually verbose roommate is annoyed with you for pointing out all the cleaning you did, or for telling her what to do. But is she annoyed, really? How can you tell? Receiving a one-word reply after you’ve sent a long message doesn’t exactly feel like a good sign, and now the conversation is just . . . awkward. Here are our tips for gracefully navigating some common awkward texting scenarios. 1. When autocorrect leads to an embarrassing typo We’ve all fallen victim to autocorrect. Even though this handy technology is meant to help us, it often messes things up for us, too, from accidental profanities to autocorrects that distort your message. Luck

Romance Novel

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  Moving from academic to romance writing can be a challenge, even for a romance lover. Luckily, many skills necessary for effective academic and non-genre writing are transferable to romance novel writing, though a potential romance novelist needs to remember few specific elements. Even if you already have an inspired idea for a sizzling story, following a few basic steps will help you create your romance novel. 1.  Know Your Subgenre Romance is an enormous genre, so in the beginning stages of the writing process, target a subgenre. Discover what specific subgenre best fits your ideas and begin to shape your novel based on that. For example, historical, paranormal, urban and erotic romance are common romance novel subgenres. An historical romance should give your reader a real sense of place and relevant historical events; a paranormal romance should create conflict around a paranormal element of the story such as a ghost character; an urban romance takes place primarily in a usually

History of the Novel

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  The novel originated in the early 18th century after the Italian word “novella,” which was used for stories in the medieval period. Its identity has evolved and it is now considered to mean a work of prose fiction over 50,000 words. Novels focus on character development more than plot. In any genre, it is the study of the human psyc The Beginning The ancestors of the novel were Elizabethan prose fiction and French heroic romances, which were long narratives about contemporary characters who behaved nobly. The novel came into popular awareness towards the end of the 1700s, due to a growing middle class with more leisure time to read and money to buy books. Public interest in the human character led to the popularity of autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries and memoirs. English Novels The early English novels concerned themselves with complex, middle-class characters struggling with their morality and circumstances. “Pamela,” a series of fictional letters written in 1741 by S

Write Narratives

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  People tell stories all the time, and many do it successfully without much thought or preparation. Stories become complicated when they are tagged as narratives and broken down into their basic elements. The components of a narrative are tools that help writers develop stories for books, songs, films and other types of expression. Most people instinctively know the basic elements of a narrative from telling their own stories, they just may might not realize how each part works when they sit down to write one. 1.  Narrators All narratives need narrators or people to tell the story. Writers can create narrators who use a first-person voice to explain their role or participation in the events of a story, or to recount their direct observations.The first-person point-of-view generates a sense of immediacy, but first-person narrators can only guess at other characters’ thoughts or motives, or explain them in retrospect. A third-person narrator steps back and tells the story from an omnisc

They’re Old Now

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  So today, we’re diving deep into the world of no illusion, ready to face one fact we all dread (hence the booming skincare industry among millennials!)—we are old. We have a collection of posts to make you feel not just old, but rather ancient. “When you look at kids nowadays and see their music you can’t help but think of how everything is old,” says the group’s description and from what you see below, they ain’t lying. #1  Ah Nostalgia…. #2  Zoom Meetings! #3  The Struggle Is Real #4  I Remember! #5  You Might Be Old… #6  “I Grew Up With No Internet” Starter Pack #7  70’s Kids Checking In