ISA Writing 1006

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If I had to give writers advice, I would say
dont listen to writers talking about writing or
themselves. Lillian Hellman
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Who Am I?

• Father
• Skier / biker
• Angel
• Author
• 80 / 20
• Physics
• Machinist

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Audience

• Mags, columns, books, movie
• Reader viewer
• 3 things
• Voice

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Work Habits

• Time to do it
• Page a day
• Beginning, middle, end

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Tools

• Word  a typing program?
• Gammarian Pro
• Tenth grade
• Presidents
• Mind map inspiration
• PPT talks

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Inaugural Speeches
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I Did Some Homework!

• Picked some presidents
• First inaugural speech
• Who was the audience
• Grammarian (Mac)
• Fleisch-Kincaid
• DoD standard

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Who Is Dumb?

• The speaker?
• The staff?
• Or is it us?
• Or is it as it has always been?

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Communicate

• Keep it short
• Write for the 10th grade always
• Think Mark Twain
• Read
• The Elements of Style by W. Strunk Jr.
• On Writing by S. King

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What Is PPT?

• Cues for the speaker
• The audience can read
• And shouldnt have to
• Focus and simple
• No equations
• Only 3 points

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Attitudes to

• Editors
• Publishers
• Agents
• Inventory
• Readers
• Audience

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Dumb Stuff

• ly
• Room for the editor (not too long)
• Fiction, not fact
• Parables
• Write to, not at
• A page a day
• Expect no money

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References

• The dummies series
• On Writing by S. King
• Elements of Style by W. Strunk Jr.

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It would have been shorter, but I didnt have
the time.KISS
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