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Fancy first letters

An initial capital or initial cap is when the  first letter on a page is bigger

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Turning a real dog into a character

If you read The Next Story in The Waking Prince (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-waking-prince/id582084676?mt=8), you will know that Joble

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Why is it so short?

Our own handwriting is usually bigger than a computerʼs typeface.  So, if you type up a

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Borders

If your story or poem is only one page long, try a border! Is your story

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Yelling and whispering

Writers sometimes make some of their words look special to make them sound a certain way

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