Opinion Pieces Need Muscled Middles by Pamela Mytroen
Nonfiction has unique challenges with middles. A reader may notice that the body of the piece flops around in too many directions rather than delivering a muscled middle. This divergence should be addressed at the very beginning of every opinion piece by developing a focused thesis.
What is a Poem? by Violet Nesdoly
In my last blog post I asked and tried to answer this question: “What is poetry?” Even as I was coming to my conclusion, I realized I would need to answer another question before we went on to other things poetic: “What is a poem?”.
Middles by Janice L. Dick
Middles have a way of sagging. I’m talking about books, of course!
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