innovative writing techniques
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How to keep your audience breathless
Innovative Writing Techniques
Lesson 1: Ball Gagging
Writing is tough.
.I call BS! Attention whore!
I’m offended.
You just want traffic to your
cave.
The Key: Engage
.You inspire me!
I’m going to re-draw this to
all my followers
Will you be the keynote drawer at our conference?
I “liked” this on Facecave
Our goal today: to give you cave octopi
You can’t even spell me.
I am that awesome.
Your Hosts
What’s my motivation?• Why am I doing this?• What makes you sit down and start typing?• Amy: photography and images
What’s my motivation?• Leslie: Prompted writing• Jim: being called out
I’m really happy for you, Imma let you
finish, but BusyDad is the greatest blog procrastinator of all
time!
It’s been so long since I last post---
How do I start?
Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages exercise.
How do I start?
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and the concept of the “Shitty First Draft”
- THE BIBLE of writing, according to Leslie
How do I start?Everything starts out as a “Shitty First Draft” – according to Jim, who has no proof to back up that statement.
“And now,” cried Max, “let’s turn this mutha out!”
But my life is uninteresting
• Photoshop
“Photoshop makes your wildest dreams come true.”
But my life is uninteresting
• The Blog-Given right to embellish
No
Yes
You can make anything engaging
Make lists
Write an opinion piece
Tie it into the most watched viral video of the year
Tie it into current events
“I was going to let it go when the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, look at what happens when we do…”
Get scientific on it
Get poetic on it
Tap into your community
Dare to be…
You.