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Down and Dirty Part Two On a more accessible street-level, your use and manipulation of Attitude creates Satire, and that is a chuckle, or a laugh out loud, for the reader or viewer with a sense of humor. Of course, there is the occasional instance in history when Satire...
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John Moe Conservatizes His Liberal Self With a country more politically divided than united, humor writer, public radio host, and popular blogger John Moe set out to cloister himself inside the other side, an attempt to bring the liberals and conservatives together... at least in his mi...
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How to Lay Down Your First Sentence and Make People Care The barn was molten red, the cat had dreadlocks and my foot developed a humpy bunion overnight. -Uknown, and always will be Yeah. This stupid sentence can take a jaunty hike up, steep and bramble-fi...
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Down and Dirty With Attitude, Part Two On a more accessible street-level, your use and manipulation of Attitude creates Satire, and that is a chuckle, or a laugh out loud, for the reader or viewer with a sense of humor. Of course, there is the occasional instance in hi...
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When Attitude Gets Down and Dirty, Part One One of the more fun activities is to pretend you have a particular type of Attitude that you might not really claim in real life.  On the advanced level, this technique of delivery becomes Dramatic Irony in first-person point-...
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Cookies in a Jar: Prose in the Exposition Mode The really great thing about writing Nonfiction in the Exposition Mode (Expository Writing) is that it can be used all alone to explain a situation, or it may be used as a sidebar of information within a larger Na...
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Choice is King: The Comparison Mode Using Comparison to Enliven Your Nonfiction Book. Often called Compare and Contrast, or Classification, this mode of nonfiction allows the writer to measure several different objects with one another to examine variations on a theme. Readers find i...
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It Doesn't Have to be a Blockbuster to Sell Do you have to be a giant in the industry or write a blockbuster to get published? The truth is that hot topics sell books, but you still have to sit down to write the book. Here are a few timely tips on where you should be putting your energy. 
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Author Jones—Writing is Not Talking about Writing If Author Jones had a donut for every time someone who said they were a writer yet couldn’t actually produce a single piece of writing came around, A. Jones could supply the entire New York police department.  A.J. has heard s...
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Author Jones Calls You Out, or Lazy Isn’t as Lazy Doesn’t Author Jones reporting for duty.  Author Jones speaks for all writers when Author Jones says you are lazy. Slap. Sometimes the truth stings like a stepped on beehive.  I know who you are; Author Jones is, after all, just li
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Power of the Storm Do you have a short story to tell? Of course you do. There's not a single human alive who hasn't experienced one or more interesting, dramatic, or even traumatic events. Your short story can have a profound effect on others, and as you never know who...
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Write a Bestselling Book About How to Write a Bestselling Book! Have you ever seen those books that promise to teach you how to write a bestselling book? Some of these books are themselves bestsellers. In this tongue-in-cheek article, "Rakish" author John Hershey makes light of authors who make their mi...
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Emotional Investment 101 Readers, like investors, can be total suckers. It doesn't take much-a housing boom, a bump in the price of gold, or a spunky protagonist with a past-to get their hearts pumping. Like investors, readers are hungry. They have liquid emotional assets...
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The Working Life of Picture Book Writer Writing a story based on Pippi Longstocking at the wee age of nine is one thing. Getting your father to type it up in book form, having his artist friend silkscreen the cover and making 50 copies for friends and family distribution, is fortuitous of ...
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Blake Nelson on Writing Young Adult Novels and Film Options Check under your belt. Are there eight published books there--three books for adults and five for young adults--seven other various manuscripts lurking about suspiciously in your nether’s? Dig deeper, have two of those books been sold for the si...
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