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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Screenwriting ? the value of structure
- Structure in the form of frameworks, work processes and goals enhances creative output:a) Short term goals (incremental productivity) produce more output than a "do your best" approach. Writing four pages a day completes a words-on-paper first draft screenplay in one month. A "do your best" or "waiting for inspiration" approach can take months or years. Witness the untold number of people w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal journaling - strategies to make it easy
- Recently I was watching the Oprah show and it was about doing something really great in someones life. Was it buying them a special gift? Or taking them out? Not really.It was about saying something really special to them. Telling a child how beautiful they are. Telling someone you love how you appreciate their beauty, how you love spending your life with them.Comments like these las...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing secrets you must know
- Writing better is critical for students. But it's even more important for business communicators.Let's face it?if you write succinctly, you can (a) win promotions, (b) lead people with your creative ideas, and (c) create instructions for your employees to follow.Therefore, here are five secrets about business communications you must know:1. You must write simply ? We all want ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 things that keep you from writing your book? and what you can do about it
- 9 out of 10 professionals and small business owners have at least one book or information product inside their head, but lack the time and organizational skills to get it out into digital or print form.You may cringe when you read this list of ten things keeping you from writing your book, because it rings too close to home for you. You may have already written a book or an e-book, or have ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write a short story
- Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer's interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of language to signify human experience. But how do we write a great short story? What are the things to keep in mind in order to come up with a short stor...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is screenwriting?
- Simply put, it is the art of writing scripts for a visual medium. Unlike a play where the action is "talked out," the action within a screenplay is "acted out" visually. The old saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was never more appropriate in relation to screenwriting. Having had the benefit of reading many screenplays as a reader, one of the most annoying, teeth grinding, nails against...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Screenwriting, screenplays, screenwriters ? good ideas for stories
- The principle for writing good screenplays begins with good idea generation and then the use of structure to extrapolate that idea into a coherent story.Sources of Good Ideas a) Ideas that push cultural boundaries work well. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, The Defiant Ones, On the Watefront and so on were all controversial in their time and still very w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Screenwriting, screenplays, screenwriters ? incremental productivity
- When attempting to understand Creativity and Innovation, it pays to import the vast range of research and knowledge that has been accumulated in these fields ? most of it is to be found in the field of Business and Management.For example, Writer's Block is intimately related to Organizational Culture ? the same principles that prevent people from generating ideas in the corporate workplace ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Screenwriting, screenplays, screenwriters - writing a screenplay using structure
- Effective screenwriting relies on the good understanding and use of structure.Inexperienced screenwriters may believe that structure inhibits creativity, but experienced writers know that following a template helps them to problem identify, generate ideas, select good ideas and develop them to reach that all important words-on-paper first draft ? structure is not a hindrance but an enhancer...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 8 reasons why a freelance writer should use the internet
- What a wonderful resource the Internet is!Students find information to help them with their studies; business people keep in touch with important clients and stay up to date with important business developments; stay-at-home-parents can find ideas for children's activities and feel less isolated by forging friendships with other online parents; and even small children have the opportunity t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writers block - melting the ice
- What does one do as a writer who loves writing and feels empty of creativity?When the writing process stops, there is the experience of fear. There is a sense that something precious has been lost. Out of this fear comes a sense of clinging. There is a clinging to all my beautiful words. It feels as if all my beautiful creativity is melting.I guess all writers live with this fear. Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Cheap therapy
- I call it cheap therapy. That gushing, near-religious, poured-from-the-body stress release that comes after writing my heart out for hours each day, delivers more balm to my soul than years of psychoanalysis.There were eight of them. Eight family members and friends died in five short years. I was a neophyte in this death thing. This clamping-down-on-your-heart, ripping-a-hole-in-your-soul,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Extreme research: 10 snappy rules for success
- So you want to learn to research well, and not waste any time. Let's do it. Here are a few NECESSARY preliminary points.First, adopt an aggressive I-am-taking-over-this-place mindset.2. Develop a system for executing the research process. By creating your own rules to follow systematically, you really speed things up. Don't have one? No worries. You can use mine. I happen to have "re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A mode of transportation
- Great writing transports one vicariously to realms that the reader would not otherwise experience.One of these areas is physical: ancient, modern, or futuristic. A great writer can bring the past into the present and make the reader experience the culture, the locale, the people of the time. Jean Auel's great novels come to mind.Another region is the pschological realm: Again great w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning time to write
- In his book, "Achieving Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer," Ray Dreyfack, a full-time freelancer for 30 years, suggests that writers "ease" into full-time writing while maintaining their day jobs. If you're following this advice, either by choice or by necessity, you know that it's not always easy. Obligations to jobs and families tend to take priority over writing. It's easy to lose fo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 6 ways to toot your own writing horn
- You know you've got writing talent. Others enjoy your work and you've even sold a few things. You'd like to turn that writing talent into full-time freelancing but you don't enough clients yet. You need to toot your own horn!The problem is that we writers often aren't very good at telling others how wonderful we are and how well we write. We'd much rather be writing than marketing ourselves...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Story building with imagination
- In the words of Aristotle, "happiness is self contentedness helping to make children deeply and quietly glad that they are who they are, and gives them a priceless legacy: the strength to meet life's stresses and the courage to become committed, responsible, productive, creative, and fully human adults... Helping a child is the greatest gift you can give in the language of the human heart. It spel...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - On giving and receiving feedback
- Writing is a personal and introspective process. To share with another what we wrote is to risk. Some of us are more hidden than others, some of us tolerate risk better than others. When you critique someone's work you don't know where on this continuum the writer stands.In order to offer feedback, one needs to be prepared. First you must respect the writer. He (or she) put his soul into th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Learn how to write poetry!
- A poet isn't born; you must work at crafting your art. If you have the desire to write, you can learn how to write poetry or simply improve your writing. I had no formal training as a poet, and have been published in many print and online publications without ever having to take a workshop or a writing course. You too can learn to write poetry by following these basic rules.The first step i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Retail margin, trade discount, and what it means for the author
- DEFINITIONSRetail margin is basically the difference between your book's wholesale price and your book's retail price. For example, a book with a cover price of $10 and a wholesale price of $5 has a 50% retail margin.Wholesale price is the cost of your book to a retailer. To use the same rudimentary example, a book with a cover price of $10 and a retail margin of 50% will be sold to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why i write
- I started writing as a way of keeping safe memories of a particularly adventurous 3 years of my life when I became totally addicted to the world of online chat rooms and met a number of 'gentlemen' for real that I met in fantasyland online.However after I allowed an educated friend to read my short stories, I was motivated to attempt a manuscript, and whilst it was extremely daunting to ope...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write articles, reports, and books quickly
- Do you have trouble getting your thoughts and ideas down into an article? Do you find it difficult to put 'pen to paper' to get your book started? Do you sit facing a blank screen struggling to find the words to write? If so, here are some tips and strategies you can use to get your material written quickly.1. As daft as this may sound, don't worry about the words. Most delays appear to be ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benjamin franklin: his ageless writing tips
- If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would be...uh, very old. But his writing style would be as current as e-mail, yet as timeless as the man himself.This great American championed succinct writing, and his epigrams became part of our national heritage. Before discussing his classic quotes, let's first examine how he grew into an acclaimed wordsmith.Apprenticed as a printer's helper,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing for the internet -- how to give the readers what they want
- In this article you will find tips on: How to intrigue your readers from the very start-the most important part of your piece isn't the content, Once they're hooked-reel them in, How to keep them reading through the entire piece instead of scanning for information, Break it up!-How to keep their attention span from reaching its limits, and How to keep your readers from becoming distracted w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Looking for good copywriter books?
- If you are looking for copywriter books, you'll want to devote some time to reading. In fact, if you plan to look online for your copy writer resources, you might as well just devote your life to reading! There are so many books that are available for you to purchase. Sure, there are standard things that each book will probably include. And, like the vast amount of diets out there, copywriter book...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Aesop, abraham lincoln, and you
- May I tell you about a writing technique shared by Aesop and Abe Lincoln?Let's look first at Aesop's timeless tale about the tortoise and the hare. It's the one that ends "slow and sure wins the race." The entire story is about 160 words long.Now let's move forward in history about 2600 years.Nearly 150 years ago President Abe Lincoln stood to address the crowd at a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Write for yourself first
- It would be very selfless or noble of me to tell you that I have created my web site only to help you and the rest of humanity. The reason for me spending so much time and energy into my writing and this site is selfish. And I must remind myself of that from time to time, especially when I move into a down period and I am asking myself "why."The real truth for the site in all honesty is to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding the book writing resources, tips, and help you need!
- Writing can be more difficult that just compiling your thoughts on a few pieces of paper. In fact, it can be a challenge to find something new, interesting, and publishable to write about. Even if you have the basic designs for a book, you still need to fill the pages in with creative, flowing words to convey your thoughts or the actions within the book. What you need is to find book writing resou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You cant always believe what you see on your computer screen
- You may not remember this, but in the early days of the personal computer, many industry insiders were predicting a paperless society.Of course, this hasn't happened. In fact, we use more paper today than we ever did before computers.This has happened because computers have made creating everything from e-mails to articles to business plans so easy that there's been an explosion in d...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A beginners guide to writing a novel
- No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem but the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it and if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as writing ABC. Writing is actually not a very complicated thing. It is just like drawing, painting, and even cooking. It is an art! Your imagination is all tha...