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Posted by Stephen Boyd
We all know that to be a careful driver on the highways, we need always to anticipate. When we see brake lights ahead, we anticipate some traffic problem and slow down. If we come to an intersection we look ahead to see if anyone is entering it before us. In like manner, to be an effective speaker we need to anticipate.
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Posted by Burke Ferguson
My article this issue is an excerpt from a book I was reading
recently titled; The Copywriters Handbook by Robert Bly, a
secondary small niche I focus on a bit. It categorizes the
different types of headlines which are most common and in use
today.
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Posted by Kal Bishop
Originality emerges from structure. Once you have a story idea, you can expand the idea into a story by using structure. In the initial extrapolation the new story structure will resemble the one being mirrored, but past a critical threshold, the needs of the new story will begin to dictate the structure. As you proceed (second and third drafts) the distance from the original mirror will increase significantly – enough that the terms “novel” or “original” can be applied to the new story. Hence originality emerges from structure and mirroring.
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Posted by Trish Anderson
You're writing a story set in your local city, but one hundred years in the past. How can you recreate the feel of the past in your words of the present? Local knowledge, that's how. And how do you get this sort of knowledge when your characters were walking around one hundred years ago and you're situated well and truly in the 21st century? Exploration on foot, a reliable camera and a willingness to stand on a street corner and imagine everything and everybody as it was in the past.
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Posted by Lance Winslow
What if nobody wrote articles that began with “the Secrets of...” and nobody wrote the top 7 or top 10 ways to do something? What if each article was written in a way, which got your mind going and the flow of thought pumping? What if the readers of all the top 10 type and “The Secrets of...” hype were just a little less shallow, were not in such a hurry and actually enjoyed articles of more substance? What if people actually liked to read and enjoyed learning? What if people were fully activated while reading?
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Posted by Kal Bishop
Beyond three and four act story structure, lies the HeroÂ’s Journey. The HeroÂ’s Journey is the most usable story structure consisting of at least 106 stages and the template for successful contemporary stories, from Star Wars to Al Pacino Scarface to The Incredibles to War of the Worlds to The Dirty Dozen to Midnight Cowboy.
The HeroÂ’s Journey is a valuable template because:
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Posted by Zaak OConan
What is writer's block?
Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing to
say. Oh well, I'm outta here!
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Posted by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ
We writers are a powerful lot. We control time. We dictate actions. We control destinies. We can make two completely opposite people fall in love with each other, and we can create family feuds that can last for centuries.
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