Problem: Article: Knowing your personal style will help you pick clothes that express your personality. Think about your interests, your friend group, or what's currently trendy. If you love clean, polished clothes in linen and pastel colors, you might go with a preppy or traditional style. If you like dark colors and distressed denim, you might go with emo or urban-chic.  Mix and match pieces to create your own style. For example, if you like certain things about the bohemian style and certain things about the sporty style, combine the 2 into your own. Browse Instagram or Pinterest to find outfit inspiration when you're choosing your new look. The #OOTD hashtag (which stands for "outfit of the day") is a good place to start to see what fashion bloggers are wearing. Sleeves that are too long or pants that cut into your waist giving you the dreaded muffin top are not flattering. Buy clothes that fit your body shape and height. You don't want to be constantly pulling at your clothes or completely covering up your figure. If you need to, get your clothes hemmed or tailored to fit.  The most important thing about dressing yourself is wearing what you're comfortable in. You'll feel better and, as a result, look better, too. For girls, wearing the right-sized bra makes a major difference. Measure yourself using a tape measure or get professionally measured and fitted at a department store. Don't rely on the size on the label. Sizes vary from brand to brand and store to store. You could be a size 7 in one store but a size 11 in another. Choose your clothes based on fit. Think about what parts of your body you like the most. Then look for pieces that play them up, while concealing the parts you aren't so happy with. For example, if you're a girl who loves her legs but isn't a huge fan of her arms, try a short dress with long, flowy sleeves. Or if you're a guy who loves his shoulders but not his stomach, wear a loose tank top to show off your shoulders while hiding your belly.  If you aren't sure what your best features are, ask your friends or family for their opinions. Take them with you shopping to get feedback. You don't have to show skin to show off a part of you that you love. For girls, for example, if you like your stomach, a shirt that's cinched at the waist will spotlight your narrow waist without being revealing. Don't feel self conscious if your body is changing. That's natural when you're going through puberty! Pick clothes that make you feel most comfortable with your new body, whether that means covering up a little more or showing off your new curves if you're a girl. While you may love crop tops or shirts with funny sayings, you might not be allowed to wear them to class. Every school has a different dress code so ask your teacher or principal for a copy before school starts. Make sure everything you wear follows the rules to avoid getting in trouble.  Examples of common dress codes include no strapless shirts or spaghetti straps, no clothing shorter than mid-thigh, no offensive T-shirts, no clothing with chains, etc. If you show up to school wearing something that's against the rules, you'll often be sent home to change or you'll have to wear something from the lost and found to cover up.
Summary: Decide on what style you want to wear, like preppy or bohemian. Find clothes that fit your body and aren’t too tight or too baggy. Wear clothes that highlight your best features. Follow the dress code at your school.

Problem: Article: In general, stream-of-consciousness writing is tied to a particular character, as it is intended to illustrate the inner thought patterns of that character. For the character’s thoughts, you could choose a multitude of topics, related or unrelated. This could include people, events, dreams, emotions, activities, items, or anything else. It’s sometimes easier to start with a broader topic if it’s the first time you’ve written stream-of-consciousness.  Literally any topic will do, as long as you have something to say about it – even if it doesn't seem like much at first. Using this method, you can connect topics that seem unrelated. For example, you could begin discussing a certain character who loves roses and then immediately switch to a childhood memory of your mother’s rose bushes. This is the way thoughts often work in our heads – so it is also a great way to show how a character thinks and connects ideas in their mind. You don’t need to capitalize, punctuate, or even spell correctly.  If necessary, make up a word to suit your needs. The point is to get your creative juices flowing, not to focus on line-editing what you write or how you are portraying your character’s thoughts. Remember that the point of this style of writing is to mirror how thoughts naturally flow through our heads, and people don’t typically think in complete sentences with perfect grammar. Ignore sentence structure. You could do an entire page of adjectives, verbs, or nouns related to your topic. Or you could do short phrases, or whatever else comes to mind, as long as it illustrates the character’s thought patterns in a pointed, methodical way. Spend some time away from the writing so that you can look over it with fresh eyes. Think about what you wrote and if it seems to be accomplishing the goal you set out to achieve. Go through several drafts if you plan to use your writing for a formal paper or reorganize your ideas so they make cohesive sense.  Switch tasks for a little while before coming back to your writing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a few hours or a few days as long as you come back to your writing with a fresh outlook. This type of writing can allow you to provide interesting insights or connections that people normally wouldn’t see. It’s valuable to save this work for future reference to look back over what kinds of connections you made between ideas. Even if it’s weird or bad, make sure you save your writing. You may want to come back to it at a later time or include it elsewhere in your work. Stream of consciousness writing is often used to display the interior monologues of characters in stories. This form of writing is meant to replicate the fast-flowing, free-associating way our brains automatically work when we are thinking inside our own heads. So the inner monologue is a stream of often disconnected thoughts, ideas, or subjects. Many famous authors have implemented this strategy in their writing – including James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf. One of the best ways to master any given style of writing is by reading examples where it is done well. If you find yourself struggling, spend some time reading some texts that focus on the stream-of-consciousness style. You could try reading "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce or As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Summary:
Choose a character or topic. Forget conventional grammar. Revise. Illustrate inner thoughts and feelings. Read other examples of this writing style.