We all have to write essays in school and we all hate it when we run out of ideas of what we should write about. In the book of awesome #386 is double spacing your essay so it takes up way more pages. While this is a good technique there are many more that I have used that can improve the length of your essay and make it look more impressive. The double spacing method is very effective but in most cases it’s predictable and expected by most teachers. One of the tactics that I use is more legit then the double spacing, I think of the arguments I make and what other peoples counter arguments are, and then create counter argument disproving their points. You could also add more examples for your argument or you can go into further explanation and detail about your examples and what they mean for all parties involved. Another legit way of making your essay or paper longer is by talking about how the conflict or moral dilemma go started and how it effects people and how it has in the past as well as what happens if the issue is not solved in quick time. My all-time favourite thing you can do to make an essay longer is changing the periods to 14-16 point font while the regular text is still 11 or 12 point font. This technique can make your essays or papers go from 3 or 4 pages to as many as 5 or maybe even 6 if you have a lot of short sentences. You can also do this with commas but they are more noticeable when they larger unlike periods in which most people don’t notice unless the different size periods are right next to each other. As an example I have 16 point font periods in this 12 point font blog.           

  

 Every year when I was younger we would go to my grandma’s farm in Saskatchewan for Christmas. The 10-12 hour trip was hard when we were little kids as it was hard to stay still for that long, but as I got older it became easier and easier for me and my siblings to stay to quiet and entertain ourselves. When we got to the farm it would usually be late around 10 or 11, so we only had time to say hi to a few relatives before we had to pick our tent in the yard. On Christmas day we would wake up early and go to the small church where all the other farmers went. After church we would then go back to the farmhouse and have breakfast, usually eggs, pancakes and lots and lots of greasy bacon. After that we would open presents with all of my relatives starting with the oldest. It was annoying when I was young since I was the 32^nd oldest with just a few of my cousins being younger than me. Lunch was very informal, it was just whenever you got hungry you went and made yourself a sandwich. My grandma and my aunts would spend all day preparing supper, they would make a huge turkey a full ham, and tons of Polish food. After we gouged ourselves of food we would all sit around and talk about what we all did over the year, I head so many stories from my relatives, like the interesting characters my uncle tony the news anchor met, or all the advancements my uncle at SaskTel made. The next couple of days I would spend time outside with my cousins building giant snow forts and having snowball fights, and playing with the farm dogs my grandma had. After about 3 or 4 days my family would head back and I would have to sit through another grueling 12 hour car ride.