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Releasing Your Inner Writer: Thinking Like an Expert, a Writer, and a Reader

Explore the different ways of thinking that can enhance your writing skills and creativity. Learn to think like an expert, a writer, and a reader to improve your writing process. Unleash your inner writer and create compelling content.

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Releasing Your Inner Writer: Thinking Like an Expert, a Writer, and a Reader

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  1. Jesse Katz, Editor Releasing Your Inner Writer

  2. Heard and Unheard Melodies 3: Number of songs the listeners correctly guessed. 60: Number of songs the tappers predicted the listeners would correctly guess. 120: Number of songs the tappers played.

  3. Thinking Like an Expert • Complex • Precise • Logical • Thorough • Treacherous

  4. Thinking Like a Writer • Simple • Accessible • Coherent • Focused • Persuasive

  5. Thinking Like a Reader

  6. The creative spirit Original Energetic Unpredictable Subjective Makes a mess Madman

  7. The planner Logical Organized Visual Unsentimental Extractor of the message Architect

  8. The builder Swift Dexterous Confident Intuitive Sentence-level thinking Carpenter

  9. The critic Objective Detailed Scrupulous Unforgiving Typographical-level thinking Judge

  10. Unleash the Madman with a Mind Map

  11. Give the Madman a Routine Ernest Hemingway James Joyce John Cheever Vladimir Nabokov Gertrude Stein Edmond Rostand sharpened twenty pencils smoked three Sweet Aftons stripped to his underwear stood at a lectern, in socks sat in a parked car soaked in a bathtub

  12. Nora Ephron: “It’s about the point!” http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/eph0int-4 (Second Video Down)

  13. Dear Parent:We have established a special phone communication system to provide additional opportunities for parent input. During this year, we will give added emphasis to the goal of communication and utilize a variety of means to accomplish this goal. Your inputs, from the unique position as a parent, will help us to plan and implement an educational plan that meets the needs of your child. An open dialogue, feedback, and sharing of information between parents and teachers will enable us to work with your child in the most effective manner.Dr. Robert B. JonesPrincipal

  14. Dear Parent,Anytime you’d like to discuss your child’s performance, please call me directly. I’m always delighted to hear from you. If I don’t pick up, you can leave a message now—I finally bought a new answering machine! Bob JonesPrincipal

  15. Dear Doris and Bertie, Love, Warren

  16. **While many ingredients do not exist in bioengineered varieties, Naked Juice does not use ingredients that were produced using biotechnology as a matter of principle.

  17. **Naked Juice objects to genetically modified fruits and vegetables—and never uses them, regardless of their availability. **As a marketing strategy, Naked Juice renounces genetically modified ingredients—and knows you will pay a premium to share in our smugness. **Because Naked Juice is owned by PepsiCo—which believes genetically modified organisms can make “positive economic, social, and environmental contributions to societies around the world”—we’re not really too sure what to say about GMOs.

  18. You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

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  20. Blues Brothers 2000—now that’s a sequel! 78%: E-mailer’s prediction of accuracy 89%: Receiver’s prediction of accuracy 56%: Accuracy Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

  21. Beware of Unintended Meaning • Thanks a lot. • Would you please remember to include me on the next call? • Do not spend any more time on the project. • You shouldn’t have. • I’m looking forward to working with you ;-) Sarcasm? Exasperation? Reprimand? Accusation? Are you?

  22. Sara: I know this is short notice, but what is your availability to review a short demurrer late this afternoon? Jesse: Your timing is impeccable. Sara: Is that a yes?

  23. Too Many Words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzDgfVI9H0 (Begins at 5:40)

  24. California Civil Jury Instruction 2.21

  25. Eliminate Clutter • At this point in time • Due to the fact that • Until such time as • Adequate number of • In the event that • Prior to • Subsequent to • Notwithstanding the fact that • Now • Because • Until • Enough • If • Before • After • Despite

  26. Slay Jargon and Clichés • Facilitate • Interface • Incentivize • Calendar • Bandwidth • At the end of the day • Takeaway • Help • Discuss • Encourage • Schedule • Availability • Ultimately • ?

  27. Personal opinion Past experience Future prediction Current status Final outcome Advance planning End result Temporary reprieve First priority General rule Overall consensus Customary practice Added bonus Natural instinct Hot-water heater Make Every Word Count

  28. Judge’s Orders • Print a hard copy • Read it aloud • Read it to an audience • Let it marinate • Reread, revise, repeat

  29. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann

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