The Funbook of Creative Writing

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... fer- tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there some subject or writing style ... trigger their adrenaline. So they often thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad- ing but wilt in...

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... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory was right, ... clicks together, so that you’ll recognize that click in the future.) A Matter of Attitude 15 The passage begins as three of Feynman’s colleagues at the California Inst...

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... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... ix Acknowledgments xvii 1. A Matter of Attitude 1 2. Finding Stories 29 3. Finding Out: Research and the Interview 45 4. Writing: Getting Started and the Structure 69 5. Writing: Th...

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... interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be ... things. They wrote for Time and Discover and Life. They edited the magazines of elite universities. They wrote books, won awards and fellowships, made names for them- selves. A...

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... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write but also in the finding out that comes before. They do their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write with the same care. They connect ... the ma- A Matter of Attitude Only connect. —E. M. Forster, Howards End terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the...

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... parties, people often tell me that they have decided they want to be writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they get a new ... of Being that in turn gives rise to appropriate Doing. You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out there doing the w...

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... on. Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under- stand the phenomenon then ... scientists, Finding Stories 33 as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their full size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to know what you thin...

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