Your writing coach part 21 pps

... energy or warmth into your voice. ✐ Practice! If you do a bad pitch in a workshop, or in front of your spouse or partner, or your dog, or the mirror, no harm done. You want to make your mistakes before ... your listener wants to make sure that yours will not. ✐ Weave your theme into your story. If the story includes a theme or lesson, try to incorporate it in your story natura...

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... secrets that will help make your readers turn those pages. Of course, how you use the language is part of what will set your writing apart, so we look at how to make your prose compelling. And ... write, and how to use the magic question “Why?” to create a blueprint for your writing project. Naturally, you want your characters (real or fictional) to come alive on the page, so...

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... remember your dreams. If you put a pen and pad on your bedside table and every morning jot down anything you can from any dreams you recall, your mind will gradually get accustomed to remembering your ... you could spend quite a few hours reading and researching with no particular goal other than to familiar ize yourself with a particular era. However, if you are digging for a specifi...

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... script with that ending once). If you have trouble with your ending, the problem probably is with your beginning, or at the very least with your middle. A good ending is the harvest of many seeds ... are for- mulaic, so we do know the inevitable ending, and your cleverness has to be applied to making the journey enjoyable even though your reader or audience knows the exact destinati...

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... Guerrilla Warfare for the Writer 204 Find your strat e gic focus 204 What’s your USP? 205 The likability factor 206 Contents vii viii Your Writing Coach Your new mantra: Do something different ... ego 208 Find your audience 208 Play a stunt 209 Train them to buy 210 Use humor to capture attention 210 Use the power of numbers 211 Give them a taste 211 Consider what’s in a...

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... help you on the road to your writing success. Are you ready to start? 2 Your Writing Coach insightful, emotional, touching stories and books and scripts. The two parts of yourself have to co-exist. ... and enjoy the writing life. One of the best features of this book isn’t in the book itself. Every chapter has a bonus that you’ll be able to access on the website www.yourwritingcoa...

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... challenge of mastering all the ele- ments of writing, and if you have stamina and determination, you’re well suited to writing novels. Writing screenplays Writing your first screenplay is also a solitary ... you had the courage to follow your dream. KEY POINTS ✐ The biggest obstacle to writing success is usually yourself. ✐ Some people let their fears stop them from writing. The...

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... appear in your book or script, but it’s always good to know as much as possible about your characters. You can do the same for all of your major characters before you actually start writing, or ... also a good troubleshooting tool if people who read your first draft say they find a particular action by one of your characters unbelievable. Ask yourself why the character does what he...

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... “Visualizations” page at www.yourwritingcoach.com). 68 Write! The discovery-through -writing technique Some time ago I interviewed Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alvin Sargent (part of that interview ... If you’re writing a biography, for example, if your book answered all of those questions about your subject in an entertaining way, you’d have a very solid piece of work. If you’r...

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... impression match how you imagine the character’s appearance? CHAPTER BONUS On the website www.yourwritingcoach.com, click on the “Chapter Bonuses” tab, then the “Characters” tab, and type in the ... finding a picture that your character values, you also will have imagined his or her surroundings. You can do the same thing for all the venues in your story. Try to engage all of your sense...

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