3. How might pursuing this thing serve your life and/or career goals? Is your curiosity about this thing a driving force in your plans for your future? For example, are you so curious about ocean life that your biggest life goal is to become a marine biologist? 4. Is this interest pri...
with facts and pictures illustrating the events of the battle. All of it was memorized already, but she couldn’t get enough of the exciting stories. Sure, lives were lost, but it was about two hundred versus six thousand, and that two hundred killed like sixteen thousand of the Mexican ...
Example:"I went to walk along the beach today and just enjoyed the sand, water, and wind. I thought about many other beach walks I've taken, and filled my mind with memories of other beach trips." 3. Brainstorm Write down everything you can think about your subject. You want to des...
“Kevin Sites is one of our national treasures—a fearless correspondent who has devoted himself to documenting not just the facts of war, but also its deepest emotional textures.Here is a thinking, feeling eyewitness to history who knows the perverse excitement of battle, but who questions every...
She’s usually silent, invisible, and overly polite, but once you got her to start talking there was no end to her rapid fire run-on sentences, stretched analogies, and skewed logic, peppered with random facts acquired from a long reading history or else personal experience. Sometimes people...
Gather data and info from “reliable resources” on the Internet WatchYouTubevideos Read books in your genre (mentioned previously) Refer to Atlases and World Almanacs to confirm geography and cultural facts 4. Create your characters Your characters help tell your story, and play a huge role in...