{"id":189,"date":"2011-08-01T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:59:44","slug":"50-writing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/50-writing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Writing tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I really like about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/handouts\/50QuickTipWritingTools.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a>, besides being useful as a writing tool, is how well most of them line up with multimedia storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<h5>8. Establish a pattern, then give it a twist.<\/h5>\n<h5>10. Cut big, then small.<\/h5>\n<h5>14. Get the name of the dog.<\/h5>\n<h5>22. Climb up and down the ladder of abstraction.<\/h5>\n<h5>24. Work from a plan.<\/h5>\n<h5>35. Report and write for scenes.<\/h5>\n<h5>50. Own the tools of your craft.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the original page, and more information the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/how-tos\/newsgathering-storytelling\/writing-tools\/76067\/fifty-writing-tools-quick-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter webpage<\/a>. The link to the book is at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 30px;display: inline-block;\"><input id=\"189\" style=\"float: right;max-width: 50px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-advanced-pdf\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"#TB_inline?height=230&amp;width=400&amp;inlineId=examplePopup1\" title=\"Export pdf to your Email\" class=\"thickbox export-pdf\" type=\"image\" value=\"Export to PDF\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I really like about these, besides being useful as a writing tool, is how well most of them line up with multimedia storytelling. For example: 8. Establish a pattern, then give it a twist. 10. Cut big, then small. 14. Get the name of the dog. 22. Climb up and down the ladder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}