Nutrition Journalism: Articles by Anne Hart
Click on any of my articles below:
- Smart foods
- How to tell from specific food cravings what your body really needs
- Can magnesium and riboflavin (vitamin B2) stop those monthly migraines?
- Cooking with organic lemon tree leaves and lemon flower petals
- Swine flu immune support nutrient, monolaurin from coconut oil: where to find information
- How excessive protein powder consumption and chromium deficiencies connect to glaucoma
- How to tailor smart foods to your family genogram
- High carbohydrates and cataracts
- Treating colds, flu, shingles, warts, herpes, parasites, fungi, and sore throat with oregano oil
- How some doctors diagnose health problems by looking at finger nails
- How bovine colostrum turns up your immune system
- Cooking with citrus tree leaves: organic lemon or keffir lime and lemon flower petals
- Which anti-viral mushrooms help to shrink tumors and also lower only the 'bad' cholesterol?
- How do your genes respond to smart foods?
- Which foods raise your good cholesterol (HDL) and lower your bad cholesterol (LDL)?
- Why are table salt and MSG called health destroyers?
- Food misinformation is the hottest nutrition controversy
- Ask nutritionists about food-based gum disease remedies
- What's the news on Splenda®?
- How plastics cause high cholesterol
- The vitamin C, glutathione, and lipoic acid detox cocktail
- What is nutrigenomics?
- How to make natural deodorant from coconut oil, coconut milk powder, mandarin oil, and baking soda
- Fermented soybean product called 'natto' lowers blood pressure and inhibits renin
- How neem oil, tea tree oil, spices, magnesium, and baking soda remove facial blackheads
- Make your own natural toothpaste from spices, herbs, salt, and baking soda
- World Health Day cookies baked with garbanzo bean flour, flax meal, oat/rice bran, and almond meal
- Aromatherapy and ayurveda techniques for skin care
- The politics and health benefits of nuts
- How to find reliable information on resveratrol
- How to control wood moisture and toxic mold from cooking spaces and homes
- How to remove rust, lime, and mineral deposits with cream of tartar and hydrogen peroxide
- Magnesium Versus Calcium
- How to make your own vegan nondairy ‘milks’ from nuts, grains, seeds, or soy beans in a blender
- The politics of soy
- Are sudden screams in TV food advertisements making you sick?
- What slow breathing and cod liver oil studies can show you
- How to start a career or business as a food stylist
- How to make nondairy coconut-pineapple-carrot-almond-mango sherbet
- Sodium versus sodium chloride
- Health benefits of rice bran oil in foods, soaps, and cosmetics
- How cherry juice helps arthritis pain, headaches, and gout
- Brew your own recession beer like the ancients
- Does pomegranate juice lower LDL cholesterol and reverse calcification of the arteries?
- Will taking vitamin D3 calcify your aorta if you have a certain genetic variation?
- How to override your bad genes with food
- How to make more nutritious vegan cookies with rice bran, oat bran, and flax meal
- Ways preventive medicine says homogenized and pasteurized milk affect your health
- National Women's Health Week runs from May 10th to May 16th
Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author?
Professional Creative Writing Assessments
By Anne Hart
Published: March, 2009
- Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
- Pages: 264
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Size: 5x8
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Paperback $18.95 from publisher, ASJA Press imprint, www.iUniverse.com. Available also at most online bookseller's Web sites.
- ISBN: 9781440125201
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Do you think like a fiction writer, investigative journalist, or an imaginative, creative nonfiction author writing biography in the style of genre or mainstream fiction? Enhance your creativity.
How are you going to clarify and resolve the issues, problems, or situations in your plot by the way your characters behave to move the action forward? How do you get measurable results when writing fiction or creative nonfiction? Consider what steps you show to reveal how your story is resolved by the characters.
This also is known as the denouement. Denouement as it applies to a short story or novel is the final resolution. It’s your clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. What category of denouement will your characters take to move the plot forward?
Take the writing style preference classifier and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using facts and acts. Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction, decisive or investigative?
Would you rather write for readers that need to interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits you? What’s your writing profile?
Enjoy this ancient echoes writing genre interest, personality, and aptitude classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more creative. There are 35 questions—seven questions for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices, five assessments and a section on how to write a novel/story/script by developing depth of character that drives your plot.
Obtain the paperback book at most online bookseller's Web sites or browse the book at the publisher's Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000124541
Paperback Books by Anne Hart
ADVENTURES IN MY BELOVED MEDIEVAL ALANIA AND BEYOND
A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains
By Anne Hart
- Published: February, 2009
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 324
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Size: 5x8
- ISBN: 9781440119552
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With the renewal of spring, the world is repaired, and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains, close to my childhood home.
To insure my confidence, my voice, and my resilience, here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room. I am Raziet, now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian, and from my grandfathers, of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them, all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia, the Kavkaz, the Steppes, Turan and Altai, the Urals, the Adigha, and beyond where the sky rides the moon.
I am the tamga of the horse, the orchards, my pet wolf, and the open grasslands. And today, I am here, not where the Volga meets the Caspian, but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul. We are all of my magnificient Alania, and here now, in this land of orchards to the north, the scent of the birch trees, the patina, the starlight, my venture, value, and vision.
Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Alania and Khazaria and all the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness.
How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues
Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language
By Anne Hart
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- Published: October, 2008
- Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
- Pages: 188
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Size: 6x9
- ISBN: 9780595535354
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How do you explain individualized, tailored, and customized nutrition in plain language to parents, children, and food retailers and to your own healthcare practitioner?
Is it a scientific fact, metabolic reality, common sense, or cultural practice that reports of eating a lot of meat by a metabolic-typed carbohydrate type person might turn to fat, whereas eating mostly vegetables and fruits by a protein-type person might turn to fat because the carbohydrate-type person may be a slow oxidizer of sugar but the protein-type person may be a fast oxider of sugar? (Sugar perhaps would hit the bloodstream faster, causing spikes in insulin due to possible insulin resistance.) Tests can determine how you metabolize foods.
Would a nutrigenomics-oriented genetic test of specific markers give clues? Or would measuring the insulin response after eating sweets reveal sugar spikes that a fasting glucose blood test might not show on paper?
What's out there to learn about dangerous eating, food misinformation, and healing foods? Is it true that one person's dangerous foods are another person's healing foods based on metabolic and genetic body types? Is it true that specific foods turn into fuel for one person but become fat for another individual?
I'm the author of 90+ books listed at http://annehart.tripod.com. Here is a list of my published books. I'm a book author full time and also write for magazines freelance since 1963. I'm a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Mensa. Here's a list of my paperback published books in print available from most online booksellers and the publisher. My creativity enhancement blog is at: http://creativityquestionnaires.blogspot.com/
Available Paperback Books Written by Anne Hart
Click on Underlined Link to Browse Each Book at Publisher's Web site at http://www.iuniverse.com. Books also are listed with most online booksellers.
1. 101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers
2. 101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients
3. 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy
4. 1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity
5. 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open
6. 32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses
7. 35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start
8. 801 Action Verbs for Communicators
9. A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book
10. A Private Eye Called Mama Africa
11. Ancient and Medieval Teenage Diaries
12. Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye
16. Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals
17. Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules
18. Creative Genealogy Projects
19. Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less
21. Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism
22. Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy-Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion
23. Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers
24. Employment Personality Tests Decoded
26. Find Your Personal Adam And Eve .
27. Four Astronauts and a Kitten
29. How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program
30. How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners
31. How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry
32. How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online
33. How to Make Money Organizing Information
34. How to Make Money Selling Facts
35. How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC
36. How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses
37. How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients
38. How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research
39. How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls
40. How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes
41. How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with Wealthy Strangers
42. How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses
43. How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books
44. How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story
45. How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or Current Events
46. Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine
48. Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service
49. Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement
50. Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses
51. Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA
52. Murder in the Women's Studies Department
53. New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman .
54. Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond to Food
55. One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me.
56. Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines
58. Predictive Medicine for Rookies
59. Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays
60. Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome
64. Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy
65. Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity
66. The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History
67. The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik
69. The Date Who Unleashed Hell
70. The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook
71. The Khazars Will Rise Again!
74. Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online
75. Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry
77. Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records
78. Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?
79. Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother
80. Writer's Guide to Book Proposals
81. Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops
82. Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes
84. Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries
85. How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club: The Craft of Producing Salable Living Legacies, Celebrations of Life, Genealogy Periodicals, Family Newsletters, Time Capsules, Biographies, Fiction, Memoirs, Ethno-Plays, Skits, Monologues, Autobiographies, Events, Reunion Publications, or Gift Books
86. How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods: Solve your stain removal problems with spices, oils, salt, baking soda, vegetables, cream of tartar, milk, vinegar, or alcohol, and make your own mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, and pesticides from zinc, plants, calcium, oils, or vitamins. Shine hardwood floors and furniture with tea and linseed oil. Here are the best of the recipes and also where to find more home-made cleaning or greening recipes on-line.
87. How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues: Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language. ISBN: 0-595-53535-6.
88. ADVENTURES in my beloved MEDIEVAL ALANIA and beyond, A TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL SET IN THE 10TH CENTURY CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. ISBN: 9781440119552
89. Traveling Poems and Short Stories. Published both in paperback and as an e-book by lulu.com. See: http://www.lulu.com/content/3879306.
90.Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author? Professional Creative Writing Asessment ISBN:9781440125201.
Plays, poetry, video and audio lectures, and Novels
See http://www.lulu.com and search under author's name, Anne Hart for paperback books, plays, and video or audio lecture files.
Growing Up During Coney Island's Heyday: The Play http://www.lulu.com/content/4453372
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RESOURCES
Creative and Business Writing Resources on the Web
© 2007 By Anne Hart
Training Beginners in the Business of Writing and the Writing of
Business
Alexander Communications
Business Writing Seminars Provides on-site.
http://www.alexcommunications.com/
The Business Writing Center
Online, Instructor-Led Business Writing Courses Business Writing
Workshops at Company Sites.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/
Business Writing Workshop Catalog
http://www.writingtrainers.com/workshop/workcat.htm
Salary Wizard
http://www.salary.com
Copywriter.com
This is a Web site where words get results. Site is created by Al
Bredenberg Creative Services.
http://www.copywriter.com
American Reporter
This magazine is the online cooperative "reporter's newspaper."
http://www.american-reporter.com/
Executive Speech and Business Writing Internet And Marketing
Strategies For Writers. Practical advice books on how to use the
Internet to further your writing career and market your writing.
http://www.speechwriter.net/
Instructional Solutions
http://www.instructionalsolutions.com/
Internet Strategies for Writers
http://www.washwriter.org/resources/membersonly/archive/netstrats.htm
Rules of Punctuation for Business Writing
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/tpl4.htm
Writing Successful Business Proposals
Writing Center as is public relations writing and copywriting.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/center/bwc360.htm
Writers Conferences and Seminars
E-book World
Offering conferences, networking, and information on writing and
publishing as well as all other business aspects of the e-book
marketplace.
http://www.e-book-world.com/ebook-fr.shtml
Newspaper Association of America
Conferences, marketing resources, circulation data, surveys, and
events.
http://www.naa.org
Poynter Online
(Everything You Need to be a Better Journalist)
http://www.poynter.org/
Finding Paying Markets for Freelance Writers
Finding Writing Markets Online:
Online sources for finding the latest print markets: electronic
newsstands, publication
Web sites and guideline databases. Electronic newsstands help you
find emarkets
for writing.
http://www.NewsDirectory.com
Writers Guideline Databases.
Online listing of writing markets and databases on marketing your
writing.
www.Marketlist.com
Writers Guideline Publications
These may link you to guidelines on a publication's Web site.
www.writersdigest.com
Media Directories
To send review copies of books and freelance article queries to
publications listed
in media directories.
General Major Media Directories for Freelance Writers
Gebbie Press
The All-in-One Media Directory
PR Media Directory: Newspapers Radio TV Magazines:Press releases,
Faxes, e-mail, publicity, and freelance. Media directory includes TV
and
radio stations, daily and weekly newspapers, and consumer and trade
magazines.
http://www.gebbieinc.com/
http://www.gebbieinc.com/presto1.htm
Gebbie Press:
Magazine Publishers on the Internet
An alphabetical listing of leading publishers in the United States,
and
links to their web sites.
http://www.gebbieinc.com/publish.htm
Electronic Media Directories
Press Flash
Distribute your Web firm's press releases to media outlets throughout
the world using the services and resources provided by Press Flash.
Press
release writing services are also provided.
http://www.pressflash.com/
E-zine directories
E-Publications Directors Resource List
If you want to write for electronic publications, see these e-
publications directories.
At this site you can find out information on writing for electronic
markets.
http://www.zinebook.com
E-Zine Advice Publications Online
Contentious
This publication is the e-zine that advises and offers information
for people who
write or publish content on the Web. Find out where to write for
other electronic
magazines. Offers online options for frustrated journalists.
http://www.contentious.com/
Ethnic Media Directories
American Minorities Media
American Minorities Media is a subsidiary of Market Place Media, the
leading
media placement company reaching specialized markets.
http://www.marketmedia.com/amm
Specialized Markets
MarketMedia.com
Media and promotions solutions for reaching specialized markets such
as senior
citizens, minorities, military, students, and others. Also media
analysis is offered.
http://www.marketmedia.com/
Freelance Editorial Association
(Includes desktop publishers)
The current online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997,
includes listings
by skills as well as a specialties index. This association published
the hardcopy,
Yellow Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to advertise
their skills and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html
International
International Journalists' Network
If you write about overseas subjects or travel, you'll find the
International Center
for Journalists' online source full of training information and media
directories.
http://www.ijnet.org
SAJA: South Asian Journalists Association
Writers interested in South Asian features, covering the people,
businesses, or
processes impacting South Asia will find excellent resources in this
association
and its publications.
http://www.saja.org/job.html
International Women's Writing Guild
The International Women's Writing Guild, headquartered in New York and
founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional
empowerment of
women through writing.
http://www.iwwg.com
Poets.Org (from the Academy of American Poets)
http://www.awpwriter.org/
Pressbox—UK
Pressbox is the UK online press center offering press release and
copywriting services
providing a professional resource for news, press releases, and
postings to
carefully targeted audiences.
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
Associazioni ed Enti Professionali—America
List of South American, Canadian, and US writers' organizations. This
site contains
a fine list of writers' associations and language translation firms.
http://www.alice.it/writers/grp.wri/wgrpame.htm
Rural Press Interactive
Rural Press Interactive outlines opportunities to target specific
markets throughout
Australia, includes metro, regional and rural. The association brings
press and
Internet together with a network of publications and sites.
http://www.rpinteractive.com.au
Electronic Pages and E-Marketing for Writers
The development journal of the International Informatics Institute is
called Electronic
Pages. It offers at the site, articles, forums, and announcements of
conferences
as well as great advice on writing for the electronic market
http://www.electric-pages.com/
Tailwind.com
Responsible e-mail marketing, help for small businesses, help for the
small business
owner such as freelance writers.
http://www.tailwind.com/db/y.asp?hid=90&nid=1
Marketing Strategies and Techniques for Writers
101 Marketing Tips for Writers: This site offers a list of 101
marketing tips,
Cassell Success Guide, and some links for writers, such as if
you "want to break
into advertising, go to church." Published by Cassell Network of
Writers, Cassell
Communications, Inc.
http://www.bitcave.com/101tips.htm
Elaine's Marketing Suggestions for Writers
The Professional Association for Christian Writers
http://www.christianwritersinfo.net/ElaineTips.htm
Writers Information Network (WIN). Christian writer's information
network
and advice: quality writing for the Christian markets.
http://www.bluejaypub.com/win/ElaineTips.htm
Business Writing Associations
American Business Press
The American Business Press is the industry association for business-
to-business
information providers, including producers of magazines, CD-ROMS, Web
sites, trade shows and products that build upon the printed product.
The association
has a staff of specialists in government affairs, marketing,
communications,
promotion and finance.
http://www.salesdoctors.com/directory/dircos/3103a03.htm
American Society of Business Press Editors
(ASBPE) is the professional association for full-time and freelance
editors and
writers employed in the business, trade, and specialty press.
http://www.asbpe.org/
Writers', Journalists', & Editors' Associations
Academy Of American Poets
Provides information, events, publications, education, and
professional services
to people writing poetry as a profession. The Academy of American
Poets offers
poetry exhibits online and biographies, photographs, and selected
poems.
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/kkochfst.htm
American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Links on how electronic publishing allows a writer to create a
parallel product
line to profitably meet more needs in a different way. This site
contains links and
resources for the organization called American Society of Journalists
and Authors
and features books by members and speakers. ASJA Writer Referral
Service is at
http://www.asja.org
American Copy Editors Society
The society focuses on improving the quality of journalism. Writerly
resources
include editorial advice, job openings, discussion boards and
conference updates.
http://www.copydesk.org/
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
More than 80,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music
publishers belong
to this society. ASCAP protects the rights of its members by
licensing and paying
royalties for copyrighted works. The job board and Resource Guide to
the Music
Business are excellent resources for writers interested in the
business of writing
lyrics or song and music publishing.
http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html
American Jewish Press Association
Founded nearly 50 years ago as an association for the English-
language Jewish
press in North America, today more than 150 newspapers, publications
and individual
journalists are members. Excellent job bank. Publishes a directory of
members.
http://www.ajpa.org/
Association of Jewish Book Publishers
http://www.avotaynu.com/ajbp.html
Writers Guild of America
Association of screenwriters and animation scriptwriters that work
for union
wages for the film and TV production industry. You may register
scripts here, or
find a list of agents, WGA news, online mentor service, and research
links.
http://www.wga.org/
Society for Professional Journalists
This society offers local chapters, a code of ethics in journalism,
and professional
membership events, contests, and awards as well as meetings covering
the business
of journalism to any working journalist, freelance or staff.
Maintains local
and student chapters nationwide.
The society offers ethics news, publications, job referrals, and
continuing education
seminars for journalists and grants scholarships in journalism. SPJ
publishes
Quill magazine, a trade journal for journalists. Maintains a site
called The Electronic
Journalist for online writers.
http://spj.org/
National Writers Association
Foundation partnerships, courses, publications, services for writers.
Excellent site
for contract reading, critiques, and help for all types of writers.
National Writers
Press, a leader in self-publishing of books.
http://www.nationalwriters.com/
American Society of Media Photographers
Offers an online gallery of work done by members of this professional
association
for photographers. The links of this national organization includes a
directory
and links to members' Web pages. Useful for writers seeking media
photographers
to work with on an article or book that needs media photography work.
http://www.asmp.org/
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The mission of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is to
foster literary
talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to
a good
education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers
of contemporary
writing.
http://www.awpwriter.org/
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
SCBWI is dedicated to serving those who write, illustrate, or share
an interest in
children's literature. The site offers conferences, regional
newsletters, a bimonthly
bulletin, writing and publishing links and tips, including other
informational
publications.
http://www.scbwi.org/
Writersclub.com
Resource links for writers.
http://www.writers.club.com/
California Writers Clubs
List of writers clubs and resources with links to seminars, training,
magazines,
groups, conferences, career centers, area writers' organizations,
book cafes, and
directories of newspapers.
http://www.calwriters.org/
Society for Professional Journalists
Their New Way Journalism Page is excellent.
http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have
joined
together in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic
journalism,
through both individual and collective efforts.
http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage
Technical Writers Associations
Society for Technical Communication
STC is the largest professional organization serving the technical
communication
profession.
http://www.stc.org/
Society for Technical Communicators
Technical writing information, grants, salary surveys, loans, and
book listings.
http://www.stc-va.org
HTML Writers Guild
International association of Web authors offering tips on good Web
writing,
design information and technology resources for writers of html.
http://www.hwg.org
Hypertext Writers Guild
If you write content in hypertext or want to learn, you can benefit
from the
resources, tips, and networks at the Hypertext Writers Guild.
http://www.mindspring.com/guild/
Computer Press Association
The Computer Press Association (CPA) was established to promote
excellence in
the field of computer journalism. Members include working editors,
writers, producers,
and freelancers who cover issues related to computers and technology.
http://www.computerpress.org/
Associations for Business or Marketing Journalists and Copywriters:
Freelance or Staff
American Business Press
Non-profit, global association for business-to-business information
Providers including databases, conventions, and other media.
http://www.americanbusinesspress.com/
American Society of Business Press Editors
(ASBPE) is the professional association for full-time and freelance
editors and
writers employed in the business, trade, and specialty press.
http://www.asbpe.org/
Associated Business Writers of America
This site contains an excellent list of writers' associations.
http://www.poewar.com/articles/associations.htm
Association of Professional Communication Consultants
APCC creates a "professional community where communication consultants
increase their knowledge, grow their businesses, and achieve high
standards of
professional practice." APCC's mission is to "support members as they
help clients
reach their goals through better communication."
http://www.apcc-online.org/
Cat Writers' Association, Inc. (CWA)
http://www.catwriters.org/
Dog Writers Association of America
http://www.dwaa.org/
Freelance Editorial Association
(Includes desktop publishers)
The current online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997,
includes listings
by skills as well as a specialties index. This association published
the hardcopy,
Yellow Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to advertise
their skills and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html
Selected List of Multimedia Publishers/Producers/Distributors
Kay E. Vandergrift has compiled an excellent list in order to
facilitate easy access
to contact media publishers, producers and distributors.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/mediacatalog.html
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have
joined
together in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic
journalism,
through both individual and collective efforts.
http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage
Software Publishers Association
Are you a multimedia developer or publisher? Or do you own multimedia
content
that you want to license? See The Software Publishers Association
Legal
Guide to Multimedia. It's a guide to the legal issues of developing,
protecting,
and distributing multimedia products.
http://www.awl-he.com/titles/0201409313.html
Women In Scholarly Publishing
Women in Scholarly Publishing (WiSP) is a professional organization
serving the
educational and professional advancement of its members. WiSP is
committed to
achieving equal opportunity and compensation for all those employed
in the field
of scholarly publishing.
http://www.wispnet.org/about.html
Writers Guild of America
Association of screenwriters and animation script writers who work
for union
wages for the film and TV production industry. You may register
scripts here,
find a list of agents, WGA news, online mentor service, and research
links.
http://www.wga.org/
National Writers Union
http://www.nwu.org/nwu/
Truck Writers of North America
This site lists a glossary of trucking terms for writers and a list
of freelance writing
jobs available for writers specializing in writing about trucking and
the truck
industry. Excellent freelance writing job postings listed in their
job bank. TWNA
is an organization of professionals who are involved in gathering,
writing and
reporting news and information about trucks, trucking and the
trucking industry.
http://www.twna.org/job_postings.htm
Advertising/Multimedia
Association of Independent Commercial Producers
Kaufman Astoria Studios
This association specializes in photo-real visual effects. Job bank
on site for programmers,
artists, and other creative people interested in working on photo-
realistic
projects.
http://www.telefilm-south.com/index.html
International Chain of Industrial and Technical Advertising Agencies
http://www.thevines.com
National Writers Association (NWA)
Foundation partnerships, courses, publications, services for writers.
Excellent site
for contract reading, critiques, and help for all types of writers.
National Writers
Press, a leader in self-publishing of books.
http://www.nationalwriters.com/
Academy Of Television Arts and Sciences
News, activities, committee events, publications, and awards related
to the TV
production, marketing, and scriptwriting industry.
http://www.emmys.tv/
Advertising Club of New York
Strives to elevate the understanding of marketing and advertising
communications
by providing a common forum.
http://www.adclubny.org/index_home.shtml
Advertising Production Club of New York (APC)
Has products, manufacturers, and associations database and
information at site.
http://www.arcat.com/arcatcos/cos36/arc36681.cfm
Advertising Women of New York
Holds events and has mentoring program. AWNY'S mission is to provide a
forum for personal and professional growth; to serve as a catalyst
for the advancement
of women in the communications field; to promote and support
philanthropic
endeavors through the AWNY Foundation.
http://www.awny.org/
Science Writers Associations
American Medical Writers Association
For freelance and staff writers focusing on medical issues in the
news, pharmaceutical
copywriting, healthcare articles, health and nutrition, and related
medical
writing. Also see American Medical Writers Association Job Market for
freelancers
and full-time staff, for members.
http://www.amwa.org/about/about.html
National Association of Science Writers.
For writing, marketing, publishing, job information, and legal issues
discussion
of writers and journalists in all of the sciences such as
pharmaceutical, life sciences,
physical sciences, social sciences, and archaeology/anthropology.
http://nasw.org/
Aviation/Space Writers Association (AWA)
This professional association has publications, events, and tips for
freelance and
staff writers or journalists who cover the space and aviation
industries.
http://brad.net/aero_outlook/other_resources/orgs.html#awa
Council of Biology Editors
Council of Biology Editors offers documentation. The 1994 CBE
(Council of
Biology Editors) manual, Scientific Style and Format, describes two
systems of
documentation in the handbook they offer in this association for
editors working
on biological documentation.
www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE6.html
DC Science Writers Association
Washington, DC area science writers group for local science writers
in Washington
and surrounding states.
http://www.nasw.org/dcswa/
Georgia Area Science Writers Association—GASWA:
Local science writers group in the state of Georgia, USA.
http://www.nasw.org/users/GASWA/
New England Science Writers Association
Science writers in the New England states have this organization.
http://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/nesw/
Canadian Science Writers Association
For science writers in Canada, an association offering networking and
education
in science writing as well as writing tips.
http://www.interlog.com/∼cswa/
Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
Founded in 1955, The Canadian Farm Writers' Federation (CFWF) serves
the
common interests of agricultural journalists, editors and
broadcasters as well as
those in business and government whose primary responsibility is
agricultural
communications.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/Research/cfwf/
Penn State Association of Science Writers
An association for science writers in Pennsylvania.
http://nasw.org/users/cpnasw/cpnasw.htm
Society of Environmental Journalists
The world's largest organization of journalists, students, and
teachers who write
about the environment and are interested in the business of writing
and selling
writing covering the environment.
http://www.sej.org/
Indexers, Editors, Proofreaders, and Copywriters Associations
American Society of Indexers
ASI is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization, serving
and dedicated
to the advancement of indexers, librarians, abstractors, editors,
publishers, database
producers, data searchers, product developers, technical writers,
academic
professionals, researchers and readers, and others concerned with
indexing of
books and periodicals.
http://www.asindexing.org/goals.shtml
The Editorial Freelancers Association
The professional resource for editorial freelancers, EFA, is a
national, nonprofit,
professional organization of self-employed workers in publishing and
communications.
The Freelance Editorial Association merged with the Editorial
Freelancers
Association in June 2000 and is now known as EFA. The association
offers
jobs listings, marketing, setting fees information, a Yellow Pages of
freelancers,
skills listing, and the e-publication, Freelance Editorial
Association News.
http://www.the-efa.org/ or
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/index.html or the
newsletter
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/Newsletter.html
Writing Help Resources with Links
Children's Book Council
Resource site for children's books with a guide to children's writing
and material
on forthcoming books.
http://www.cbcbooks.org
Associated Writing Programs
Offers lists of university writing programs, conferences, and
resources. Publishes
The Writers Chronicle.
http://www.awpwriter.org
Absolute Write
Writing links offered on how to write or publish novels, nonfiction,
plays, poetry,
and scripts.
http://www.absolutewrite.com
Writers Toolbox
Resources for fiction and nonfiction writers, screenwriters,
journalists, and technical
writers. Excellent resource for writing help.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346
Proofreaders
List of names and addresses of freelance proofreaders, from the
Editorial
Freelancers Association (EFA).
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP/proofreaders.htm
Biology Editors, Rates and Payment, Editing and Proofreading
Biology editors and proofreaders charge upwards of $35 an hour.
Biology Editors
Company has an excellent Web site discussing how much to charge for
technical
writing or proofreading and editing scientific material, or proposal
development
and technical writing.
http://www.biologyeditors.com/rates_and_payment.html
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Writers
Artslynx: International Writing Resources
If you want more listings of writers' associations with links,
including information
for poets, these are excellent resources.
http://www.artslynx.org/
Hollywood Creative Directory
Job board for the entertainment industry, directories, and places to
contact.
http://www.hcdonline.com
Mystery Writers
Sisters in Crime
Sisters in Crime combats discrimination against women in the mystery
field, educates
publishers, the public, and mystery writers and readers as to the
inequalities
in the treatment of female authors, and raises the awareness of their
contribution
to the field.
http://www.sistersincrime.org/
MysteryNet's Mystery Organizations
Mystery Network
Mystery entertainment and information for mystery fans and enthusiasts
http://www.mysterynet.com/organizations
ClueLass
Network with other mystery writers here for news, mystery releases,
and look at
the resource directory for mystery writers, Deadly Directory.
http://www.cluelass.com
Romance Writers Associations
Romance Writers of America
RWA is a non-profit professional/educational association of 8,400
romance writers
and other industry professionals.
http://www.rwanational.com/
eHarlequin.com
Harlequin publishers runs the eHarlequin.com site for romance readers
and writers.
Gives writers a picture of what readers expect as it focuses on
readers.
http://eharlequin.women.com/harl/
Content Producers
Content Exchange LLC
Content creators online list their resumes and job opportunities are
listed as well.
Mailing list also.
http://www.content-exchange.com
Copyeditors
The Slot
Style points not in most stylebooks for copy editors or those who
want to be
freelance copy editors.
http://www.theslot.com
Marketing
Writers Market Online
Writers Market book listing publishers and their needs is now online
if you subscribe
to the updated market information.
American Marketing Association
The American Marketing Association is an organization for those
interested in
marketing. Network with marketing professionals to research timely
and factual
information for business articles. Read marketing research
publications.
http://www.ama.org/
Market Research Organizations
Market research links, trends, and conference schedules
http://www.wsa.com/wsa/directories/membership/MarketTrend/info.html
Center for Research in Marketing
Bridging the gap between marketing theory and practice through
rigorous and
relevant research.
http://www.csom.umn.edu/CSOM/MktgCenter/MktgCenter.html
Publishers Marketing Association
For writers thinking of self-publishing, the Publishers Marketing
Association
(PMA) is the largest non-profit trade association representing
independent publishers
of books, audio, video and CDs. Their mission is to advance
independent
publishing through professional development, creative marketing, and
global
affiliation.
http://www.pma-online.org/
The Market Research Industry
Information on what the Market Research Industry is doing. A full-
service market
research and consulting firm.
http://www.asiresearch.com/mri/mri.htm
PubList.com
Reference of more than 150,000 publications and contacts for writers
or those
who need permissions.
http://www.publist.com
Book Marketing Update
Self-published authors may subscribe to access independent book
publishers,
booksellers, and self-publishing feedback.
http://www.bookmarket.com/index.html
Software Publishing Association
Find any software or computer book publisher or games. A good
resource for
writers looking for publishers.
http://www.shopforacomputer.com/software/software_publishing_associati
on.html
Software and Information Industry Council
Many press release articles, news and conferences on trends shaping
digital content
and the educational technology market. Excellent link to keep current
on
news and resource material, especially about protecting privacy
during the evolution
of the digital economy.
http://www.siia.net/
Copyright Information, ISBN, and Resources for Self-Publishers
Copyright, ISBN Number, and Library of Congress Registration
Information for
Self-Publishing Writers and Publishers, U.S. Copyright Office.
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
Copyright Registration
All the information you need to know in order to learn how to
copyright your
writing before you market your work. A link also features information
on registration
of copyright procedures and instruction.
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#rp
Library of Congress
Learn how to get a Library of Congress registration number for your
self-published
book, pamphlet, or booklet and other services to publishers and self-
publishers
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/infopub/
International ISBN Agency
How to Get an ISBN Number. Does your self-published book need an ISBN
number? Find out how to receive an ISBN number at this Web site.
www.isbn.spk-berlin.de/html/howtoget.htm
International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN)
The International standard numbering system for the information
industry is
administered by R.R. Bowker. The U.S. Agency for ISBN assignment can
be
contacted at: 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974, Tel: 908-
665-
6770—Fax: 908-665-2895.
http://www.bowker.com/standards/home/
International Standard Serial Numbers
Do you write and self-publish serials or would like to publish
serials written by
other authors? Perhaps you need an International Standard Serials
number.
Serials are print or non-print publications issued in parts, usually
bearing issue
numbers and/or dates. A serial is expected to continue indefinitely.
Serials include
magazines, newspapers, annuals (such as reports, yearbooks, and
directories),
journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions of societies, and
monographic series.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/ and
http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/issnbro.html
Resources for Business, Technical, and Humanities Writers
Internet Resources for Business and Technical Writers
This site provides excellent resources for the business writer. Links
to resources
for business writers: Internet Technical Writing Course Guide and
career links.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/ww_tech.html
Hypertext Writer's Guide and the Research and Documentation
Online List of Style
Manuals and Glossary of Internet and Library Terms
Helpful resources for business writers and others who want to learn
about how to
write in hypertext.
http://hildegard.engl.uvic.ca/writers/resources.htm
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/
Researching Humanities Links
The humanities links are useful to the writer learning the business
of writing
from any genre of writing business, science, art, nutrition, or your
own specialty.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/humanities/overview.htm
Finding Writing Jobs Online
Techwriters.com
Technical writers will find Techwriters.com the best place to look
for a technical
writing job, other than through membership in technical writer's
organizations.
http://www.techwriters.com/
Technical Writing Jobs
Find current technical writing jobs here, including both staff and
contract job
listings. Excellent site for technical writing and related
communications media
jobs.
http://www.techwriters.com/placement/writer_nationwide_jobs.asp
JournalismJobs.com
This the job board for finding jobs if you're a media person. Post
your resume,
look at recent job listings, or receive job notification by email at:
http://www.journalismjobs.com/
Journalism Jobs Page
The Journalism Jobs site lists current journalism jobs around the
nation. It has
links to other journalism job listing sites.
http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/jjobs.html
Sun Oasis Jobs
Good site for freelance writers, also staff journalism and tech
writing jobs offered.
Search by location. Updated frequently; contains classified ads from
editors.
http://www.sunoasis.com
Truck Writers of North America
This site lists a glossary of trucking terms for writers and a list
of freelance writing
jobs available for writers specializing in writing about trucking and
the truck
industry.
Excellent freelance writing job postings listed in their job bank.
TWNA is an
organization of professionals who are involved in gathering, writing
and reporting
news and information about trucks, trucking and the trucking industry.
http://www.twna.org/job_postings.htm
All Freelance
Links to resources, articles, and job listings for freelance writers,
illustrators,
designers, programmers, and other independent contractors.
http://www.allfreelance.com/
Hire Minds
Job postings, e-newsletter, message board, and gatherings in New York
City for
media, publishing, or creative people.
http://www.hireminds.com/
Net Read
Publishing jobs listed along with content on publishing industry
employment.
www.netread.com/jobs/jobs/
Monique's Newsjobs
Monique's Newsjobs is a comprehensive list of jobs for journalists.
Working
journalists highly recommended this site. It's recommended by
Writer's Digest as
the best list for journalists around to date.
http://www.news.jobs.net
Creative Freelancers
Submit your resume and samples, or look at the help-wanted area
offering
freelance writing, editing, or proofreading employment.
http://www.freelancers.com
Writing Employment Center
You'll find a daily updated listing of jobs here for writers and
related editorial
workers.
http://poewar.com/jobs/htm
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction is a magazine of essays and literary nonfiction
that offers job
opportunities on the magazine from time to time. The publication is
dedicated
solely to the creative nonfiction genre.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/opportunities.htm
Broadcast-Related Links:
Finding Radio, TV, and Film or Film School Jobs, Airchecks, and
Talent
TV and radio Jobs.Com lists timely jobs and talent, including radio,
TV, and
film school, as well as links to real audio air-checks, available
talent, and you can
post an air check. You can find broadcast-related links here.
at http://tvandradiojobs.com/
All Starr Radio
An excellent site sampling what writers write about when they speak
on the radio.
Includes information on comedy, such as a link where you can list the
weird
things that happened to you.
http://www.allstarradio.com
TV and RadioJobs.com
TV andRadioJobs.com has 13,000+ Unique Visits a day. Almost half its
visitors
are radio management types looking for fresh talent. Available for a
small fee:
Post your 6-minute air-check on their streaming server for 5 months.
http://tvandradiojobs.com/
Air Newslink Job Link for Journalists
Search JobLink ads for journalists. Links to resources, publications,
or interact
with their search engine. Fill out their online form to narrow your
job search in
journalism.
http://ajr.newslink.org/joblink.html
Reference Books/Sites for Writers
Allwords.com
Word definitions, origins, and translations: look up works in five
languages.
Some audio pronunciations available and information for crossword
puzzle
enthusiasts.
http://www.allwords.com
Guinness World Records
Guinness Book of Records for entertainment.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
Rare Diseases Information
If you're a health or medical writer interested in writing about rare
diseases and
support groups or need to find more information, try this health site.
http://www.rarediseases.org
Fundraising
If you need to raise funds for a worthy cause, or to publish your own
book, look
at these tips on how to pan a fundraiser by an excellent Internet
fundraising company.
http://www.fundraising.com
Young Writers
The Writing Corner
Writers under 18 may publish their writing on the site.
http://www.writingcorner.com
The Quill Society
Free writing club for young writers from 12 to 24 with online
publishing
resources, help, and forums.
http://www.quilll.net/home/index.htm
Templates for Feedback
Flashbase.com
Templates available on site to help writers track reader feedback or
responses
from proofreaders or agents and editors.
http://www.flashbase.com
Writers' Unions
National Writers Union
Excellent, timely informational articles on preventing your written
work from
being used without your permission electronically. Offers articles on
all aspects of
prevention of abuses to writers at work, including independent
writers. Job referral
listings and other services as union.
http://www.nwu.org/
Communications Workers of America
This is the largest union in America of journalists, printers,
publishers, telecommunications
workers, broadcast workers, and others involved in communications
from writers to telephone company employees and broadcasters.
http://www3.cwa-union.org/
What is Creative Nonfiction?
(Audio excerpts) from the magazine, Creative Nonfiction
Audio excerpts online on the definition and discussion of what is
creative nonfiction
for writers interested in writing for this genre.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/whatiscnf.htm
Eastgate Systems, Inc.
"The primary source for serious hypertext,"—Robert Coover, The New
York
Times Book Review. The role of narrative in the Web experience is a
pressing
concern throughout the Web world, from entertainment to e-commerce.
Subscribe
to electronic roundtable newsletter, E-Narrative.
http://www.eNarrative.org/1/news.html
Archived Articles on E-Lance Employment
E-Lance Economy Not Happening
Read how and why the decline in self-employment has accelerated since
1997.
http://www.asja.org/newspub/x0101b.php
Hungry Minds, Red Hat, Join to Form Press
Hungry Minds Inc, (Nasdaq: HMIN) (formerly IDG Books Worldwide) and
Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced a joint multi-title publishing
agreement
to produce books around Red Hat's extensive product line, including
Red
Hat(R) Linux.
http://www.authorlink.com/pubnews.html#redhat
Niche Marketing Via the Web
This article is a case history of interest to journalists working
online or those who
want to Niche Marketing Via the Web: A Case Study Creating a Parallel
Electronic
Publishing Line by Gordon Burgett, from the December 2000 issue of the
ASJA Newsletter, is an excellent article on electronic publishing by
the author of
Publishing to Niche Markets, by Gordon Burgett. Find a need and fill
it.
http://www.asja.org/newspub/x0012a.php
Grant Proposal Writing Instruction
How toWrite a Research Grant. How to get grant guidelines and sample
proposals
so you can write a research grant proposal.
http://www.ialc.wsu.edu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal
.html#research
How to Write an Institutional Grant
Instruction and techniques in writing great institutional grant
proposals adapted
from Bob Lucas's workshop.
http://www.ialc.wsuedu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal.
html#institutional
The Intensive American Language Center's site on Grant Proposal
Writing
How to write proposals for grants. Methods of how to implement your
idea. Article
and free instruction site offered by the Intensive American Language
Center
of Washington State University. Excellent article on how to write
grant proposals.
The Intensive American Language Center's site on Grant Proposal
Writing is
adapted from a workshop by Bob Lucas.
http://www.ialc.wsu.edu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal
.html
Creative Nonfiction
This magazine offers excellent articles online or by subscription.
See archived
articles online specializing in creative nonfiction, including essays.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue14/14conten
ts.htm
"Traps," by Lee Martin.
Also issue #14, Creative Nonfiction, "What Men Think, What Men Write,"
contains two articles than can be read online.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue14/14martin
_traps.htm
See issue #12, Creative Nonfiction, Emerging Women Writers II, "The
Old
Sort: of Connemaras & Sweet Corn," by Caroline Nesbitt.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue12/12nesbit
t_theoldsort.htm
Anne Hart's Web sites: Writing Instruction Books & Strategies;
Writing and
Personal History Journalism Techniques/Course, Book Information,
Articles,
Excerpts, & Resources
http://annehart.tripod.com
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Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing
Celia Hunt
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-747-2 ISBN-13: 9781853027475, 200pp,
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The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
Donna Williams
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Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct
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The Self on the Page: Theory and Practice of Creative Writing in
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Edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson
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Writing Myself
Gillie Bolton
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Writing My Way Through Cancer. Myra Schneider
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Deborah Philips, Liz Linington and Debra Penman
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A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities
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Gather
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Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy
Clinicians,
Educators and Students
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Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-356-7 ISBN-13: 9781843103561, 288pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
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Music Therapy
Analytical Music Therapy
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Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.
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Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998.
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Jessica
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Jessica
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Jessica
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Jessica
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Category: Music Therapy
A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy
Theory, Clinical Practice, Research and Training
Tony Wigram, Inge Nygaard Pedersen and Lars Ole Bonde
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-083-5 ISBN-13: 9781843100836, 384pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.
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Constructing Musical Healing
The Wounds that Sing
June Boyce-Tillman
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-483-X ISBN-13: 9781853024832, 220pp, 2000.
Category: Music Therapy
Filling a Need While Making Some Noise
A Music Therapist's Guide to Pediatrics
Kathy Irvine Lorenzato
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-819-4 ISBN-13: 9781843108191, 144pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Health Care, Music Therapy
Grief and Powerlessness
Helping People Regain Control of their Lives
Ruth Bright
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-386-8 ISBN-13: 9781853023866, 160pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1998.
Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Music Therapy
Groups in Music
Strategies from Music Therapy
Mercédès Pavlicevic
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-081-9 ISBN-13: 9781843100812, 256pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2003.
Categories: Group Psychotherapy, Music Therapy
I Dreamed I was Normal
A Music Therapist's Journey into the Realms of Autism
Ginger Clarkson
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-58106-007-6 ISBN-13: 9781581060072, 128pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Music Therapy
Improvisation
Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and
Students
Tony Wigram
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-048-7 ISBN-13: 9781843100485, 240pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.2004.
Category: Music Therapy
Interactive Music Therapy—A Positive Approach
Music Therapy at a Child Development Centre
Amelia Oldfield
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-309-5 ISBN-13: 9781843103097, 224pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.2006.
Categories: Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Music Therapy
Interactive Music Therapy in Child and Family Psychiatry
Clinical Practice, Research and Teaching
Amelia Oldfield
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-444-X ISBN-13: 9781843104445, 224pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.2006.
Categories: Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Music Therapy
Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs: 2nd Edition
A Guide for Parents
Elaine Streeter
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-960-2 ISBN-13: 9781853029608, 64pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.2001.
Categories: Intellectual Disabilities, Music Therapy, Special
Education
Multimodal Psychiatric Music Therapy for Adults, Adolescents, and
Children
A Clinical Manual
3rd edition
Michael D. Cassity and Julia E. Cassity
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-831-3 ISBN-13: 9781843108313, 272pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2006.
Categories: Music Therapy, Psychiatry
Music and Altered States
Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions
Edited by David Aldridge and Jörg Fachner
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-373-7 ISBN-13: 9781843103738, 208pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Anthropology, Music Therapy
Music and People with Developmental Disabilities
Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities
F W Schalkwijk
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-226-8 ISBN-13: 9781853022265, 160pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1994.
Category: Music Therapy
The Music Effect
Music Physiology and Clinical Applications
Daniel J. Schneck and Dorita S. Berger
Illustrated by Geoffrey Rowland
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-771-6 ISBN-13: 9781843107712, 272pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Category: Music Therapy
Music for Life
Aspects of Creative Music Therapy with Adult Clients
Gary Ansdell
Compact Disc, ISBN-10: 1-85302-300-0 ISBN-13: 9781853023002, 240pp,
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1995.
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-299-3 ISBN-13: 9781853022999, 240pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1995.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy and Group Work
Sound Company
Edited by Alison Davies and Eleanor Richards
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-036-3 ISBN-13: 9781843100362, 304pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation
Performing Health
Edited by David Aldridge
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-302-8 ISBN-13: 9781843103028, 304pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Dementia, Health Care, Music Therapy, Occupational
Therapy,
Speech Therapy
Music Therapy in Children's Hospices
Jessie's Fund in Action
Edited by Mercédès Pavlicevic
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-254-4 ISBN-13: 9781843102540, 192pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Music Therapy
Music Therapy in Context
Music, Meaning and Relationship
Mercédès Pavlicevic
Preface by Colwyn Trevarthen
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-434-1 ISBN-13: 9781853024344, 224pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1997.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy in Dementia Care
Edited by David Aldridge
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-776-6 ISBN-13: 9781853027765, 256pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy in Health and Education
Edited by Margaret Heal and Tony Wigram
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-175-X ISBN-13: 9781853021756, Jessica
Kingsley
Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 304pp, 1993.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy in Palliative Care
New Voices
290 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open
Edited by David Aldridge
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-739-1 ISBN-13: 9781853027390, 200pp, 1998.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy Methods in Neurorehabilitation
A Clinician's Manual, by Felicity Baker and Jeanette Tamplin
With a contribution from Jeanette Kennelly
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-412-1 ISBN-13: 9781843104124, 256pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2006.
Categories: Brain Injury, Health Care, Music Therapy
Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine
From Out of the Silence
David Aldridge
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-296-9 ISBN-13: 9781853022968, 352pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1996.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy with Children
David Aldridge
CD-Rom, ISBN-10: 1-85302-757-X ISBN-13: 9781853027574, Jessica
Kingsley
Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child
Dorita S. Berger
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-700-7 ISBN-13: 9781843107002, 256pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.
Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Music Therapy
Music Therapy: Intimate Notes
Mercédès Pavlicevic
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-692-1 ISBN-13: 9781853026928, 176pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1999.
Category: Music Therapy
Music, Music Therapy and Trauma
International Perspectives
Edited by Julie P. Sutton
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-027-4 ISBN-13: 9781843100270, 272pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.
Categories: Mental Health, Music Therapy
Pied Piper
Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills
John Bean and Amelia Oldfield
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-994-7 ISBN-13: 9781853029943, 96pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2001.
Category: Music Therapy
Receptive Methods in Music Therapy
Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians,
Educators
and Students
Denise Grocke and Tony Wigram
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-413-X ISBN-13: 9781843104131, 288pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. December 2006.
Category: Music Therapy
Roots of Musicality
Music Therapy and Personal Development
Daniel Perret
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-336-2 ISBN-13: 9781843103363, 192pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.
Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Music Therapy
Therapeutic Voicework
Principles and Practice for the Use of Singing as a Therapy
Paul Newham
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-361-2 ISBN-13: 9781853023613, 592pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1997.
Category: Music Therapy
Using Voice and Movement in Therapy
The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy
Paul Newham
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-592-5 ISBN-13: 9781853025921, 200pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.
Categories: Dance and Movement Therapy, Music Therapy
292 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open
Using Voice and Song in Therapy
The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy
Paul Newham
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-590-9 ISBN-13: 9781853025907, 176pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.
Categories: Dance and Movement Therapy, Music Therapy
Receptive Methods in Music Therapy
Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians,
Educators
and Students
Denise Grocke and Tony Wigram
Foreword by Cheryl Dileo
This practical book describes the specific use of receptive
(listening) methods and
techniques in music therapy clinical practice and research, including
relaxation
with music for children and adults, the use of visualisation and
imagery, music
and collage, song-lyric discussion, vibroacoustic …
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-413-X ISBN-13: 9781843104131, 288pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, December 2006.
Category: Music Therapy
Dramatherapy
Using Voice and Theatre in Therapy
The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy
Paul Newham
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-591-7 ISBN-13: 9781853025914, 176pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.
Categories: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama, Music Therapy
Empowering Children through Art and Expression
Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief
Bruce St Thomas and Paul Johnson
Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the
successful use of
arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those
whose lives
have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a
different culture
or community.
Paperback, ISBN-13: 9781843107897, 176pp, Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 116
Pentonville Road, London, April 2007.
Categories: Arts Therapies, Bereavement and Palliative Care,
Counselling,
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Working with Children and Families
Healing the Inner City Child
Creative Arts Therapies with At-Risk Youth
Edited by Vanessa A. Camilleri
Healing the Inner City Child presents a diverse collection of
creative arts therapies
approaches to meeting the specific mental health needs of inner city
children,
who are disproportionately likely to experience violence, crime and
family pressures
and are at risk of depression and …
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-824-0 ISBN-13: 9781843108245, 320pp,
Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, April 2007.
Categories: Arts Therapies, Working with Children and Families
Playing the Other
Dramatizing Personal Narratives in Playback Theatre
Nick Rowe
This book is an exploration and critique of `playback theatre', a
form of improvised
theatre in which a company of performers spontaneously enact
autobiographical
stories told to them by members of the audience.
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-421-0 ISBN-13: 9781843104216, Jessica
Kingsley
Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, 208pp, January 2007.
Category: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama
Pop-Up Book Craft Instruction
The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers.
David
A Carter and James Diaz, Little simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Children's
Publishing Division, New York. 1999.
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COMPUTER GAME SCRIPTWRITING STRATEGIES
Also read my 2002 Version of this article at:
http://www.writers.net/articles/writers/computer_board_games.php
How to Write Scripts for Computer and Board Games
Author:
Anne Hart
Date: 07-01-02
The
goal of fiction writers in the new media is to adapt your story, novel, or
script to as many platforms, formats and media as possible and to sell to
multiple markets - either online, multi-casting, or multimedia. Computer game
scripts aren't only for computer games anymore. They're used in dramatizations
for training and learning simulations and other learning materials as well as
for entertainment online, on disk, and for infotainment and edutainment at all
levels from corporate training to Web sites for children and young adults,
seniors, and students.
Here's how to write a computer game script that you can adapt to any type of
simulation training or interactive learning as well as entertainment fiction.
The average computer screen interactive video or game has double the amount of
writing (as a non-interactive video or film script) to account for the camera
directions, the director's directions (since you're the director and the writer
on the computer as you are in animation).
So
to adapt your screenplay to the digital media as a computer game script,
separate the beginning, middle and ending exactly as you would cut off the
beginning, middle, and ending of a short story or novel. In a screenplay, every
scene forms a creative concept. In the industry, the executives try to separate
the one-line high concept from the whole-story-based creative concept.
A creative concept is a basic device that's used like an all-encompassing net to
catch all the important events of the story. Think of your creative concept as a
Native American dream catcher net full of feathers and beads woven into memories
and facts of your story. Your concept’s one purpose is to grab the audience's
attention and squeeze until it gives a specific emotional response.
Summarize the highlights into a single paragraph that tells the story. In a
screenplay, it has been said and for the past two decades been written about
that you divide your story into three acts. However, in adapting a script or
story to the new interactive media, you don't divide it into three acts, and you
don't divide it into six acts. You bring out eight octopus-sized tentacles or
branches and you hang your computer game script or interactive book story on
those eight branches.
It has been said that at each new path, or what the screenplay books of the
seventies used to call turning points, a new crisis happens that propels the
action in forward. However, in the new media, each new crisis instead propels
the action down another branching pathway, through another road, and into
another narrative. Again, the reader chooses when the action is supposed to
branch and turn on its dime to move forward in not so much a new direction, but
in the direction the reader says it will move.
The writer no longer chooses. Interactively, the reader chooses.
If you need to write a premise and introduce your hero, in an interactive script
you adapt your old media book by writing a summary of the end first and then
working backwards to the first chapter or the first page. Interactive books are
adapted by writing back starting with the end of the book, story, or script and
shuffling the deck. The crisis that sets the story in motion is never limited to
only one crisis, but eight, or four, or two, or some other even number. Let the
reader choose the crisis the viewer wants to work with, and give more than one
summary of each chapter. You adapt a script to the new media by working
backwards from the end of the adventure.
Here are some problems to solve as you write your dramatizations for training scripts online or computer game scripts:
· In a nonfiction interactive script, find your biggest weapon to slay the problem that has to be solved in the action of your nonfiction script. This cliffhanger approach is good when you're writing a how-to training video, film, or CD-ROM learning tool.
· Create a high-stakes races to hook your cliffhanger on.
· Find a new acronym for each 7-minute scene in your script and lay your cliffhanger on at the end of each 7-8 minute segment of a nonfiction script.
· If you're looking for a cover-all that makes your script hang together, use the cliffhanger to make a connection between what's a household name in your script, the problem to be solved, and the method your narrator or main character uses in the dramatization to solve the problem and reach a conclusion.
· Sell your cliffhangers to the interactive TV market targeting ADSL (assymetric digital subscriber line) technology. ADSL is high bandwidth Internet connectivity that you can use to bring your script to commercial quality video on the Web. Use videoconferencing as a means to transmit your scripts to a live audience interested in nonfiction - that is problem solving, skill training, test taking/preparation, and feedback at business meetings.
· Use wireless paths to sell your cliffhangers, and use cliffhangers in training videos and videoconferencing. The phone companies are eager to get into the interactive TV business.
· Write scripts about bandwidth itself for a technical audience as practice, using cliffhangers every 7-8 minutes as paths provided for the narrator to take new action and move the script faster until a problem is solved at the end and the skill is learned by the corporate employee or student watching your script.
· Have your script read before a live audience or through videoconferencing and have the audience decide which cliffhangers to insert at each point. Use about 8 cliffhangers per instructional film script.
·
Cliffhangers can be used in nonfiction comic books or graphic instructional
materials. Most comic books are 32 pages in length. Double that size to 64 pages
and you come out with a script for a computer game lasting 22 minutes or more.
You also get a graphic
novel at that length or a booklet on how to perform a special skill.
The
competing cliffhangers grow in volume as the story moves forward, even if it's a
routine safety instructional film to train vehicle drivers. Test your
cliffhangers' performance. Set up a Web site and get feedback from your
cliffhangers from an audience. Try before you make your cliffhangers permanent.
You're teaching even if you're not writing anything instructional in the
traditional sense. Propaganda films teach a lesson, too. You get at
the emotional response of the audience through cliffhangers. Then you appeal to
their thinking, logical side to insert the facts that come after the
cliffhanger. Either the narrator, the product, or the audience can become
involved n the cliffhanger and solve the problem to get the answer. Use mazes
when appropriate. Even mazes can become cliffhangers, and text mazes of logic
are useful only when you are teaching the viewer to use test methods to solve
problems. When writing cliffhangers, use more emotion and less demand that the
audience think. Most people view a script to have fun and learn by passive
imprinting and associations rather than to be forced to solve problems.
Therefore, let the dramatized character solve the cliffhanger/problem. A
cliffhanger is a substitute for a problem to be solved in a nonfiction script.
In a fiction script, a cliffhanger is hidden problem to be solved and exposed
suspense requiring emotional reactions to solve.
Five Steps to Dramatizing Interactive Personal Essays for the Digital Media
1. Ask a specific question.
2. Use the essay to answer the question.
3. Write the question at the start of the essay and make your question interactive inserting many branches or possibilities each possibility narrowing down more and more to concentrate your reader's mind.
4. Use the interactivity to ask the reader how does this paragraph help answer the question?
5.
Whenever the paragraph finishes answering the question begin a new branching
narrative, pathway, or choice for the reader. It's time for a break of
concentration and a shifting to a cliff-hanger. Even the brief personal essays
in interactive media can have cliffhangers, even in nonfiction, autobiography,
and other personal essays based on life experience. Many experiences can lead to
a topic for writing in any media, such as how to receive email interviews.
Another fiction with a real-life practical use online topic you can make a
script or article from is how to get terrific email interviews. Books can be
written from lists such as a list fleshed out of what are the funniest things
that happened to employers recruiting employees on the Internet, such as viruses
that came with resumes. Base your writing on interviews with dozens of human
resources personnel who hire people from the Internet based on resumes and
correspondence coming in my email and from Web page recruiting.
A writer gets all interviews for a book from the Internet. I once wrote a book
based on hundreds of interviews all gotten by email. I requested the interview
by email and got the person on the other side to give me the interview by email
only. Most of my interviews in the past were with famous and best- selling
authors and screenwriters, including interviews with big-name screenwriters who
switched to writing for the new media (like Ken Goldstein,
publisher/screenwriter of the Carmen San Diego series for Broderbund), and best
selling interactive novel writers/publishers, and virtual press publishers. You
could write a computer game, animation script, essay or an article or book on
how to get great interviews by email for any writer who is working on a book or
a column. Your title could be: Secrets of Success in Email Interviewing. What\'s
the funniest thing that happened to you on the Internet while writing your
column or other creative writing?
Interview
Jeffrey Sullivan of DigitalArcana, Inc.
http://www.DigitalArcana.com
What outlook do you see in interactive multimedia for freelance fiction
and/or nonfiction writers as far as making a living, opening a writing service
or home-based business, or getting a job?
There is tremendous opportunity for writers (both fiction and non-fiction) in
the area of interactive media. The incredible growth in the market has spawned a
strong appetite for new talent, and the increasing market shares in the more
mature sub-markets mean some increase in pay rates. Building a career in this
field remains a fantastic opportunity, but there are some things to remember:
1. Know your field. Don\'t just hop on the bandwagon because you hear interactive is "the next hot thing." Not only will it be easy for potential employers to sniff this out, but it's the absolute worst thing you can do, both for your personal employment opportunities, and for opportunities for writers in general. One of the biggest problems in interactive is that there are a lot of "displaced writers" from other media who figure that "writing is writing," so they just hop into interactive, over-promise what they can do in this tricky medium, and leave producers with a bad taste in their mouth for "professional writers."
2. The newer the field, the more appetite, but the less the pay (in general). if you want to be on the cutting edge, be prepared to pay the dues.
3. Love this stuff. If you're just in it for a paycheck, then #1-2 above will ensure that you not only flop, but that you make it harder for other writers to follow you.
What kind of training would a writer need to start a career as a freelance
writer in interactive multimedia?
The two key ingredients are experience in the genre of interactive you want to
work in, and solid writing skills. Solid writing skills is something I'll take
as a given (if you don't have it, I can't tell you how to get it). Experience is
easy to acquire. Go out there and use the products you want to create. If it's
adventure games, play adventure games ravenously. If it's edutainment, then
experience all of them out there.
One caveat: don't just check out the "hot" titles in a field. There's nothing
worse than hearing a person rattle off the two or three best known entries in a
field as their favorites, a sure sign that they haven't done their homework. (A
side note: if I had a dime for every time I heard someone tell me they had an
idea for a cross between "Doom" and "MYST" over the past few years, I'd be
independently wealthy.)
For the older writer - 55+ - who has been rejected by ageism from the
Hollywood screenwriting market, or for the novelist seeking a publisher, what
does interactive multimedia offer?
I hate to say this, but in many of the interactive fields, ageism is even worse
in interactive. In all of the "hot" areas like cutting-edge gaming and
interactive fiction, there is a fairly strong perception that anyone over the
age of 30 (!) doesn't "get it," and can't write this stuff.
The perception is that well-established linear writers simply can't think
non-linearly as interactive often requires. However, I think that in the fields
of reference, education, and entertainment, there may be much less of this
attitude. Since my experience lies elsewhere,
however, I can't be sure.
How would a freelance writer of fiction or nonfiction who has been doing
print writing for years begin to make the leap to get into writing interactive
multimedia? Are there any jobs out there for writers who can't find work on
daily newspapers because of the downsizing of daily newspapers?
If you're a newspaper writer, your best entree into interactive may be with the
marketing department of an interactive company; there your skills are the most
directly relevant. Once you're in, you can absorb the culture and experience,
and try to branch out into other areas.
For general writers, the key is, as I've mentioned above, knowing the field.
Know as much as you can about what has worked (and what has not) in your field,
and know why things work or don't, in your opinion. Knowledgeable people in this
field are rare, so preparing yourself is a great way to get that foot a little
farther in the door.
What advice would you give to creative writers of all types to enter the new
media?
Know the area you want to work in exhaustively. And try to know the other areas
at least in passing. You never know where a good idea (or even a bad one) in one
field will yield a great innovation in another.
Is there anything readers might want to know about the hidden markets in
interactive multimedia? Can one work at home?
Working at home is a definite option in many cases. Interactive firms, being
much more highly computerized in general, are a lot more comfortable with the
concept of telecommuting or simply working off-site than many other industries.
Is it easier to sell to the interactive multimedia market than to try to find
a print publisher for one's novel, screenplay, or how-to nonfiction book?
No. With respect to a book, you can create what is essentially the finished
product. with respect to a screenplay, even though the script isn't the finished
product, the accepted convention is that writers don't do anything more than a
script. In interactive, however, the norm is to need to do a prototype or sample
art in addition to a design document, so there is more to do to get an idea
sold. Add to that the fact that many companies have more ideas than they can
handle, and the market for new ideas is not as great as it once was.
What education is best for a freelance creative writer to get a foot in the door
in the new media?
A background in computers, writing, game playing (if you're interested in the
game market).
Can a writer educate himself at home and work at home, or must there be a
college degree with a major in interactive multimedia to enter the occupation of
writer in this field? In other words, will a B.A. in English get one in the
door? What other job titles are there in interactive multimedia for writers?
What else can they do in this field to find work? How long have writers been
writing for interactive multimedia? Five years? Three years?
Absolutely not. For one thing, these college degrees are so new that there are
few people in the market who will even have one. Second, this industry values
credits and experience over degrees more than many other fields. The more
technical your interest, however, the more likely that a degree will be
necessary.
What's the future of multimedia for freelance creative writers?
I think that creative people will be the guiding force in moving interactive
media into a new and mature mass-medium. Technology can only take you so far,
and although we've been driven by it so far, it is becoming harder and harder to
differentiate your product on technology alone. Soon, it will be impossible. The
companies know this, but they are often caught between two cultures (technology
driving product and content driving product); soon their minds will be made up
for them.
Copyright 2002 Anne Hart. All rights reserved.
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AUTHOR'S PROFILE
Brief Biography:
Anne Hart is a popular novelist, playwright, and independent behavioral science journalist with more than 80 paperback books currently in print. She holds a graduate degree in English/Creative Writing emphasis, and is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and Mensa. She has been writing professionally since 1959. Her Web site is at http://annehart.tripod.com.
Link to List of Books Written by Anne Hart
Name: Anne Hart
Degrees: BS, MA
Certification: Community College Teaching Credential:
Lifetime: Language Arts & Literature
Memberships: American Society of Journalists and Authors, Mensa
Type of work: Journalism, Public Relations, Writing, Graphic
Design (magazine illustration, book covers, &
digital photography), Communications-
Organizational Communications Management
Courses Online, Personal History Journalism.
Documentary Video Production, Novelist.
Playwright. Genealogy--Nonfiction Writing:
Personal History Books. Videography
Documentaries. Magazine Features.
Fields taught: Communications, Fiction Writing, Professional
Writing, Public Relations, Feature Writing,
Play and Skit writing, Humor, Personal History,
Organizational Communications, Journalism,
English, Literature, Humanities, Grammar,
Biography, Video-Biography. Documentary
Production. Full-time independent writing of books,
stories, and articles currently.
Hi! I want you to know that as an author, I care more about readers, viewers, and listeners, than you care what I know. What taught me most about caring was the varied experience as a full-time adult learner myself starting at age 17 in June, 1959. After growing up seaside, I worked my way through college as a full-time editorial assistant and free-lance journalist, attended University at night, and graduated in 1964 with a BS degree in English Education, emphasis on professional writing.
By the summer of 1965, I moved to Washington, DC for two years to work in the Washington arena of journalism, meanwhile taking graduate courses in public relations and communications along with area studies and international relations in graduate school. Washington became a great resource for creative nonfiction.
While in DC, Saturday Review magazine bought my travel piece. Embassy row became my beat when I freelanced for the Washington Evening Star. By 1967, I moved west to continue graduate work in professional and creative writing, taking additional courses in educational technology, graphic design, and video production so I could develop training materials.
Finally, by December 1979, I earned my MA in English/creative writing--all this time working full time or part time while taking courses (or writing full time). During the seventies, I worked as a substitute teacher in community colleges, high schools, and in continuing education centers working with senior citizens who wanted to learn creative writing. Between 1967 and the present I took courses in multimedia production, professional writing specializations, and after 1995, I began teaching online.
During that time, I wrote numerous published books which are currently in print, including novels, plays, and how-to books. As technology evolved, I became involved with digital journalism, teaching online, and anything else I could learn about working on the Internet in digital journalism (content production--new media) and designing Web sites all with a goal of creating new ways to teach creative and professional writing or personal history, especially to mature people interested in life-long learning. In my spare time, I kept on writing how-to books, novels, plays, skits, humor, features, and a variety of articles for numerous magazines, such as Everton's Genealogy Helper (magazine), Family History Plus (online), Family Chronicle, and pet-care magazines.
I spent most years during the seventies writing instructional manuals, video scripts, grant proposals, and business books for various Unified School Districts, County Education Centers, and Community College Districts. This meant teaching creative writing classes or college composition classes for community colleges part time and writing books and articles or columns full time.
Freelance work for a variety of public relations agencies and several corporations' public relations' departments inspired me to open the first Public Relations Agency in my local area back in 1976 that emphasized gerontology-related issues. This resulted in a 492-page book that I wrote and several other books. In the late nineties, I worked online as an acquisitions editor on novels for the publisher, Online Originals, (London) as one of the first few editors to recommend books for publication by reading, reviewing, and recommending them online.
Clients in software manufacturing contracted with me to serve as "case history manager" with a goal of interviewing, writing success stories, and looking for how certain types of software solved unique problems and achieved results. The work included writing magazine articles on how a particular software operating system helped companies in various parts of the world (with step-by-step information readers easily could follow). I email-interviewed judges on remote Pacific islands, and managers of non-profit institutions that work with charities.
It was really fun developing and implementing numerous memoirs writing, personal history, oral history, video-biography and time-capsule production or DNA-driven genealogy courses for older adults. When I taught writing the salable life story, students were eager to write vignettes, skits, plays, and monologues. This turned into another book I wrote titled Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes--ISBN 0-595-32237-9).
What really became motivating emphasized training students to go out into the field and conduct oral history interviewing with older adults, creating video-biographies, multimedia life story presentations, writing plays, skits, and time capsules. This led to teaching older adults and other students how to develop time capsules.
Since 1959 I have always had my own freelance writing business that led into taking public relations clients, interviewing, or teaching others how to train and motivate others to express their creativity in new ways and to research how creativity may be encouraged at all ages. I combined writing and public relations with teaching and training beginning in 1972 when I taught drama and playwriting for a local Community College District in classes they held at a university campus. Later, I began adding video production work to the teaching of writing.
By February, 1995 I hooked up to the Internet after taking multimedia courses in developing interactive training materials originally targeted to show writers how to write novels and screenplays, and began to search for work teaching online. Creative and professional writing courses, I surmised, could be taught better online than face-to-face. So I began to offer courses online as soon as the first browser appeared in April of 1995. Popularity with my Web-site based writing courses grew, and eventually I began to teach writing life stories in a series of temporary-by-choice online teaching assignments in professional writing. I also wrote for magazines.
When very positive feedback about my course in writing the salable life story came directly to me from students, another university hired me in 2000, and I taught writing essays--college composition, journalism, and public speaking courses there for my contract, March 2000-June 2001. After that, I taught creative writing at another university during the summer from June 16-July 20 of 2004 and from November 11-December 22 2004. I enjoyed the temporary work teaching short courses online as it allowed me to continue with my full-time career writing books and magazine articles.
I am presently writing books and magazine articles full time and reading materials about organizational communications management. The book I most enjoyed writing is one of instruction on how to write 45-minute one-act plays for all ages. Favorite hobby: visual anthropology with documentary video production.
Basically, I've spent the years 1959 to the present either writing full-time 65+ published books currently in print, or the numerous magazine and newspaper articles, columns, features, videos, audios, published plays, scripts, and other materials. At the same time I always taught part-time for a variety of universities and colleges in my specialty which is writing and creativity research.
Being a documentarian really is fun. Writing scripts is another subject that I've practiced and taught for many years. In 1989, I co-wrote the screenplay, "Black Snow Melting" about Alaskan dogs, with a movie producer. I’ve written a published play. And in the mid 1970's, I wrote for a local county educational media center, the video script, "Eric Educational Research" on how to do educational research using that computerized research system at a time when computers were new to educational research. A TV personality narrated that video, which is available to teachers.
Hobbies eventually became my life's work. These included eagerly working with students, producing personal history videos, researching anthropology, Ice-age art, genealogy, ancient history, archaeology, graphic design, and watching travel videos.
Since 1999, as a senior, I've fully retired from teaching and sometimes do part-time online book and article writing at home and view armchair travel videos. I'm a non-driver by choice and travel very little nowadays except by watching my favorite hobby of viewing travel DVDs and visual anthropology TV. Optimisim and joy is the lightness of it all.
At home I enjoy the friendship of my happy, loyal yellow Labrador Retriever. One of my latest dog-related topic book is titled, How To Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News, published by ASJA Press (ISBN: 0-595-45798-3). (http://www.iuniverse.com). Another of my recently published books is titled Ethno-Playography. See my list of 81+ books at http://annehart.tripod.com with links to articles, excerpts, and more writing. Email: newswriting@hotmail.com.
101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers
By: Anne Hart
Table of Contents
101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds
A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers
Chapters
1. How to Write and Develop Scripts for Computer and Board Games
2. Designing Success Story Newsletters as Anniversary or Event and Celebration of Life Gift Books
3. How to Bind Your Own Current Events Research Book or Booklet by Hand
4. Pop-Up Books for All Ages
5. Full 5 – 6 Week Course in Writing and Publishing Gift Books
6. 50 Strategies on How to Apply Writing to Memoirs and Life Story Gift Books or Newsletters
7. Personal Histories & Autobiographies as Points of View within Social Histories:
Write in the First Person
8. Personal History Time Capsules as Gift Books, Annual Newsletters and DNA
Driven Genealogy Reports
9. Romantic Wedding and Anniversary Gift Books, DVDs or Newsletters
10. Newsletters or DVDs with Slogans, Logos, and Branding
11. Directories and DVDs as Gift Books: Entertainment, Walking Tour Guides,
Historic Neighborhoods, Galleries, Museums, and Dining
12. Gift Books, Discs, and Newsletters Documenting Media Tours for Authors, Performers, and Speakers
13. News Clipping Collection on a “Theme Newsletter,” Report, Disc, or Niche Market Gift Book
14. Age-Related Hubs as Family History Newsletters, DVDs, Reports, and Gift
Books
15. Conference or Reunion Newsletters, Discs, and Gift Books
16. Digital Scrap Booking, Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books from Slide Shows
17. Dating History Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books
18. Celebrities’ “Lessons Learned from Life” as Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or Books
19. Mind-Body-Spirit Gift Video Newsletters, Reports, and Gift Books
20. Inspirational Video and Print Newsletters, CDs, DVDs, or Gift Books
21. Self-Help Seminar and Convention Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or Year Books
22. How to Make Great Video Extended Family Newsletters
23. How to Write a Course Syllabus
24. Publishing or Producing Materials for Reunions and Video Conferences
25. Writing, Publishing, and Producing Video News Releases
Appendix A Newsletter Templates on the Web
Appendix B Multi-Ethnic Genealogy Web Sites
Appendix C General Genealogy Web sites
Appendix D Bibliography
Appendix E Use Haiku as Proverbs and Slogans for Inspiration
Appendix F 1,006 Action Verbs for Gift Book Writers and Publishers
Appendix G Template for a Handwritten Newsletter—Print or Multimedia
Appendix H Expressive Arts in Creativity Research: Projects and Assessments in
Imaginative Writing
Appendix I List of Anne Hart’s 83+ published paperback books in print
Index
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Introduction
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” __ Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Benjamin Disraeli, novelist, debator, and prime minister in England (elected to parliament), wrote many novels, including a trilogy "Coningsby,” "Sybil," and "Tancred.” and The Life and Reign of Charles I (1828). A nearly three-page listing of Disraeli’s quotations appear in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Cheers to Simplicity
Do you want to raise funds or solve problems for your favorite cause by writing, publishing, or producing? Simplicity sells. About keeping things simple, clear, and consistent, that's the first thing I learned when I went to technical writing school to learn to write computer manuals two decades ago after I tried to get a real-world teaching job with a masters degree in creative writing--fiction. We used to wear buttons saying "clarify and simplify." It prevents logorrhea. It sure helped when I entered the field of medical writing.
The following five details helped to sell my fiction (23 novels): simplicity, commitment, consistency, universal values, and clarity. If you write fiction, you write about what keeps families together, puts bread on the table, and pulls its own weight. You write about searching or brainstorming for answers, surprises, measurable results, imagination, and solutions to problems close by instead of looking for creativity enhancement, success, or the unexpected in all those far away or exotic places. And yes, that illustrates simplicity without talking down to the readers. Make the reader feel important. Who does it best?
It's the people that write user-friendly books. The
skills you learn by writing computer manuals transfers to writing novels when
people can follow the simplicity and still feel good after reading your book.
Hooray for all writers who emphasize clarity through simplicity. It sells.
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102 Fund-Raising “How-To” Career Development, Problem-Solving, Practical Training, or Vocational Biography Pamphlets to Publish
Raising funds? How do you do it? Simply interview folks in these occupations and write their brief vocational biographies. You can hire freelance writers to write the biographical interviews emphasizing what they do on their job, education/training, and experience, target market, location, and expected income. Market your publications at career development events and conferences and with school libraries and career, human resources, or employment centers.
Your publishing effort can be pamphlets, glossy magazines, books, or loose leaf vocational biographies that you market to schools, career centers, and libraries. Advertise for people to interview that do these types of work as their main form of income or as a part-time business.
You can find them in various professional and trade associations related to the industries or occupations. Publishing vocational biographies can be in paperback or as a video news release on the highlights of various vocations. One example could be a day in the life of a book packager. Keep the vocational biography short and focus on the highlights.
Pamphlets could run 45-100 pages. Here are some suggested vocations that haven’t been covered in depth too many times. You could focus on the 50 vocations that will grow in the next decade or choose vocations such as these below that emphasize hobbies and beyond as vocations such as archivist leading to a possibly more secure job with one’s state.
1) American Studies Participant/Observer/Reporter
2) Adoptions Researcher
3) Anthropologist/Applied
4) Antiques and Paper Collectibles Dealer in Family History/Postcards/Photos/Diaries
5) Archivist/State Employee
6) Area Studies Specialist
7) Attorney/Notary/Court Records Researcher
8) Banking historian
9) Biographer
10) Book author/article writer/columnist
11) Book Locator
12) Book Packager
13) Braille Transcriber/Genealogy Records
14) Career Consultant or Counselor
15) Clarifying Secrets in Memoirs Writing/Intergenerational Writing/Publishing Specialist
16) Clergy
17) Collectibles Dealer
18) Computer Database Manager/Researcher/Designer
19) Conference and Seminar Event Planner
20) Conservator
21) Court Records Researcher/Historian
22) Diary Conservator
23) DNA-driven Genealogy Researcher
24) Documentarian
25) Estate Sales and Auction Directors
26) Ethnographer
27) Eulogy Writer
28) Family Conflicts Mediator
29) Family History Gift Basket Entrepreneur
30) Family History Internet Theater Producer
31) Family Newsletter Publisher/Designer
32) Family Recipe Publisher
33) Genealogist
34) Genealogy Camp Coordinator/Life Story Writing or History Research Camp
35) Genealogy Club Events Coordinator
36) Genealogy Events and Trade Show Planner
37) Genealogy Software Designer
38) Genealogy Software Manufacturer’s Representative
39) Genealogy/Family History Teacher—online or in person
40) Genetics Counselor
41) Geographic Area Genealogy Researcher
42) Gerontologist
43) Gift Book or Booklet Publisher/Writer/Designer
44) Gift Manufacturer—Family History Novelties, Collectibles, Memorabilia
45) Greeting Card Writer/Personalize for Families
46) Handwriting and Documents Researcher
47) Historian
48) Historic Genealogy Society Administrator/Founder/Researcher
49) Historical Handwriting Analyst
50) Historical Society Coordinator/Founder/Administrator
51) Immigrant Ancestor Project Coordinator
52) Indexer/Genealogy Books, Records, and Web-based Databases
53) Intergenerational Interviewer
54) Internships Director for a University
55) Intimate Journeys Genealogical Walking Tours of Neighborhoods Connecting Families
56) Journalist
57) Librarian
58) Library of Congress Employee
59) Linguist/early handwriting specialist/Languages
60) Locator of Descendants for Restoring and Returning Historic Photos, Ephemera, and Memorabilia (found in antique shops, at estate sales, and displayed in restaurants).
61) Matchmaker
62) Medical Historian
63) Memoirs Writing Educator
64) Museum Archivist
65) Music/Musician Genealogist
66) Native American/Indigenous Peoples History/Genealogy Researcher
67) Novelist/Playwright/Memoirs Writer
68) Oral Historian
69) Paper Sales/Marketing/Manufacturing (for conservation and library or museum uses)
70) Personal Historian
71) Personalized Family History Greeting Card Design, Poems, Illustration
72) Photographer
73) Probate, Wills, and Estate Paralegal or Attorney
74) Progenealogist
75) Public Historian
76) Public Servant/Government Employee
77) Public Speaker
78) Publicist/Public Relations Director
79) Publisher
80) Rabbinical Dynasty Genealogist
81) Radio or TV Genealogy Talk Show Host
82) Real Estate Historian (world-wide historical property ownership research)
83) Records Administrator
84) Reunions Planner
85) Sales/Genealogy Products/Marketing Manager
86) Satellite/Internet Connections
87) Scholarship Researcher/Ethnic, Area, or Surname Scholarships
88) Skip Tracer (locate people who moved away)
89) Social History Researcher
90) Sociologist
91) Software Designer/Family History/Genealogy
92) Specialist in Finding Women’s History-Related Documents (such as maiden names)
93) Surname Group Administrator/Researcher
94) Teacher/Time Capsules and Social History
95) Time Capsules Craft
96) Transcriber
97) Translator
98) Travel Agent: Ethnic and Family Tours Specialist
99) Traveling Genealogist
100)Two-Line Tombstone Writer
101) Videographer
102) Walking Tour Guide-Extended Family and Reunion Walking Tours of Ancestors’ Neighborhoods around the World or Locally
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Chapter 1
How to Write and Develop Scripts for Computer and Board Games
This book explains the following strategies:
· How to Publish for Home Schoolers and Parents
· How to Earn a Practical Living Opening Home-based Publishing Businesses
· Organizing, Designing, & Publishing Life Stories, Issues in the News, Current Events, and History Videos, Board/Computer Games, Scripts, Plays, and Books
Raise funds and/or promote your favorite cause with practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses. Home schoolers, parents, teachers, students, and anyone interested in opening home-based publishing, writing, or video podcasting and video news release-producing businesses can enjoy these business start-ups or one-time projects.
They are simple-to-organize home-based businesses or one-time projects that can be operated on a part-time or full-time basis online at home or on the road. These are projects or home-based businesses families can work on together. Run these projects or home-based businesses online. Or meet with people at events to raise funds or through tutoring and coaching sessions.
Practical projects for fund raising using writing and publishing or the skills of video production may include learning how to adapt a story, novel, news event, or script to as many platforms, formats and media as possible and to sell to multiple markets, either online, as a game or as interactive learning materials such as multimedia. Computer game scripts aren't only for computer games anymore.
They’re for learning to avoid pitfalls and blind spots that can derail careers early in the game. Publishing vocational biographies for fund-raising, public relations, or streaming video news releases on the Internet can be a family-run business for stay-at-home parents or home schoolers or a one-time project.
Many communications businesses or projects can be operated at home. Emphasize publishing or video production for the sake of fund-raising for your favorite causes. These projects or businesses can be started and operated on affordable budgets. One example would be video news release production. Another would be creating board games. One more would be writing and publishing loose leaf inserts of vocational biographies marketed to schools, libraries, career centers, trade and professional associations, and career development conferences.
Board games and computer game scripts are used in dramatizations for training and learning simulations and applied coursework in a variety of learning materials. These projects also may be used for ‘infotainment’ and ‘edutainment’ at all levels or for hobby businesses. The businesses are verbal-skills oriented. Scripts and training videos or multimedia projects are used for corporate training.
Web sites are interactive for executives, corporate assessments, and for Web sites viewed by children and young adults, seniors, trainers, and students. Here's how to write a computer game script that you can adapt to any type of simulation training or interactive learning as well as entertainment fiction or creative nonfiction.
The average computer screen interactive video or game has twice that amount to account for the camera directions, the director's directions (since you're the director and the writer on the computer as you are in animation). So to adapt your screenplay to the new media, separate the beginning, middle and ending exactly as you would cut off the beginning, middle, and ending of a short story or novel. In a screenplay, every scene forms a creative concept. In the industry, the executives try to separate the one-line high concept from the whole-story-based creative concept.
A creative concept is a basic device that's used like an all-encompassing net to catch all the important events of the story. Think of your creative concept as a Native American dream catcher net full of feathers and beads woven into memories and facts of your story. Its one purpose is to grab the audience's attention and squeeze until it gives pleasure or emotional response, like fear.
Summarize the highlights into a single paragraph that tells the story. In a screenplay, it has been said and for the past two decades been written about that you divide your story into three acts. However, in adapting a script or story to the new interactive media, you don't divide it into three acts, and you don't divide it into six acts.
You bring out eight octopus-sized tentacles or branches and you hang your computer game script or interactive book story on those eight branches. It has been said that at each new path, or what the screenplay books of the seventies used to call turning points, a new crisis happens that propels the action in forward. However, in the new media, each new crisis instead propels the action down another branching pathway, through another road, and into another narrative.
Again,
the reader chooses when the action is supposed to branch and turn on its dime to
move forward in not so much a new direction, but in the direction the reader
says that it will move. The writer no longer chooses. Interactively, the reader
chooses.
If you need to write a premise and introduce your hero, in an
interactive script you adapt your old media book by writing a summary of the end
first and then working backwards to the first chapter or the first page.
Interactive learning materials, multimedia, and books for policy analysis as well as entertainment and learning are adapted by writing back starting with the end of the book, story, or script and shuffling the deck. The crisis that sets the story in motion is never limited to only one crisis, but eight, or four, or two, or some other even number. Let the reader choose the crisis the viewer wants to work with, and give more than one summary of each chapter. You adapt a script to the new media by working backwards from the end of the adventure.
Here are some problems to solve as you write your dramatizations for training scripts online or computer game scripts:
- In a nonfiction interactive script, find your biggest weapon to slay the problem that has to be solved in the action of your nonfiction script. This cliffhanger approach is good when you're writing a how-to training video, film, or CD-ROM learning tool.
- Create a high-stakes races to hook your cliffhanger on.
- Find a new acronym for each 7-minute scene in your script and lay your cliffhanger on at the end of each 7-8 minute segment of a nonfiction script.
- If you're looking for a cover-all that makes your script hang together, use the cliffhanger to make a connection between what's a household name in your script, the problem to be solved, and the method your narrator or main character uses in the dramatization to solve the problem and reach a conclusion.
- Sell your cliffhangers to the interactive TV market targeting ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) technology. ADSL is high bandwidth Internet connectivity that you can use to bring your script to commercial quality video on the Web. Use videoconferencing as a means to transmit your scripts to a live audience interested in nonfiction - that is problem solving, skill training, test taking/preparation, and feedback at business meetings.
- Use wireless paths to sell your cliffhangers, and use cliffhangers in training videos and videoconferencing. The phone companies are eager to get into the interactive TV business.
- Write scripts about bandwidth itself for a technical audience as practice, using cliffhangers every 7-8 minutes as paths provided for the narrator to take new action and move the script faster until a problem is solved at the end and the skill is learned by the corporate employee or student watching your script.
- Teach logical and action-oriented decision-making to prevent ‘flat’ writing. Have your script read before a live audience or through videoconferencing, and have your audience choose which cliffhangers to insert at each point. Use about 8 cliffhangers per instructional film script.
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Cliffhangers can be used in nonfiction comic
books or graphic instructional materials. Most comic books are 32 pages in
length. Double that size to 64 pages and you come out with a script for a
computer game lasting 22 minutes or more. You also get a graphic
novel at that length or a booklet on how to perform a special skill.
The competing cliffhangers grow in volume as the story moves forward, even if it's a routine safety instructional film to train vehicle drivers. Test your cliffhangers' performance. Set up a Web site and get feedback from your cliffhangers from an audience. Try before you make your cliffhangers permanent.
You're teaching even if you're not writing anything instructional in the traditional sense. Propaganda films teach a lesson, too. You arrive at the emotional response of the audience through cliffhangers. Then you appeal to their thinking, logical side to insert the facts that come after the cliffhanger.
The narrator, the product, or the audience can become involved in the cliffhanger and solve the problem to get the answer. Use mazes when appropriate. Even mazes can become cliffhangers, and text mazes of logic are useful only when you are teaching the viewer to use test methods to solve problems.
Increase emotion, tension, and time pressure as cliffhangers progress in time and rapidly move forward in plot stemming from the decisions characters choose. Don’t force the audience to think through very complex puzzles, riddles, or clues when they are under the umbrella of intense emotion and time pressure.
Most people view a script to have fun and learn by passive imprinting and associations rather than to be forced to solve problems while viewing a screen or even reading a script. Therefore, let the dramatized character solve the cliffhanger/problem. A cliffhanger is a substitute for a problem to be solved in a nonfiction script. In a fiction script, a cliffhanger is hidden problem to be solved and exposed suspense requiring emotional reactions to solve.
Five Steps to Dramatizing Interactive Personal Essays for the New Media
- Ask a specific question.
- Use the essay to answer the question.
- Write the question at the start of the essay and make your question interactive inserting many branches or possibilities each possibility narrowing down more and more to concentrate your reader's mind.
- Use the interactivity to ask the reader how does this paragraph help answer the question?
- Whenever the paragraph finishes answering the question begin a new branching narrative, pathway, or choice for the reader. It's time for a break of concentration and a shifting to a cliff-hanger. Even the brief personal essays in interactive media can have cliffhangers, even in nonfiction, autobiography, and other personal essays based on life experience. Many experiences can lead to a topic for writing in any media, such as how to receive email interviews.
Another fiction with a real-life practical use online topic you can make a script or article from is how to get terrific email interviews. Books can be written from lists such as a list fleshed out of what are the funniest things that happened to employers recruiting employees on the Internet, such as viruses that came with resumes.
Base your writing on interviews with dozens of human resources personnel that hire people from the Internet based on resumes and correspondence coming in my email and from Web page recruiting. If you don’t like to transcribe digital recordings of voices, use voice to text technology to transcribe your audio recordings.
Or ask writers to email you answers to questions you email to them, if they want to (or are able to) give you their time to actually write out an answer and email it to you. This gives the person you interview time to think and write exactly what the person wants you to put into your book or article. An emailed interview answering specific questions you ask by email allows the person interviewed to pause and think instead of talking off the top of her or her head and then calling you to change and revise comments as the recordings are transcribed over and over, making you do all the revisions.
A writer gets all interviews for a book from the Internet. I once wrote a book based on hundreds of interviews all gotten by email. I requested the interview by email and got the person on the other side to give me the interview by email only.
Most of my interviews in the past were with famous and best selling authors and screenwriters, including interviews with big-name screenwriters who switched to writing for the new media (like Ken Goldstein, publisher/screenwriter of the Carmen San Diego series for Broderbund), and several other best selling interactive novel writers/publishers, and virtual press publishers.
You could write computer game scripts, design board games, animation scripts, essays, or write articles or books on how to get great interviews by email for any writer who is working on a book or a column. Your title could be: Secrets of Success in Email Interviewing. What's the funniest thing that happened to you on the Internet while writing your column or other creative writing?
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Raise funds for your cause with practical media projects that easily
can be turned into home-based businesses or projects for home
schoolers, parents, teachers, students.
Book Description
Raise funds and/or promote your favorite cause. Develop original
creativity enhancement products such as writing vocational
biographies. Solve problems and publish measurable results. Design
practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based
businesses or one-time projects.
Homeschoolers, parents, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, and workers interested in opening powerful, affordable-budget, trend-ready home-based publishing, writing, or video podcasting and video news release-production businesses and creative writing fundraising events will enjoy these unique applications to help you create your own board games, projects, businesses, publications, and events. Sample business start-ups (or one-time project) categories include the following categories: description of business, income potential, best locale to operate the business, training required, general aptitude or experience, equipment needed, operating your business, target market, related opportunities, and additional information for resources. Develop practical projects using the skills of video production, creative writing, book and pamphlet publishing, or newsletter design. These skills include adapting stories, novels, news events, or scripts and skits to numerous platforms, formats, and media types. Inform others how to avoid pitfalls and blind spots that can derail careers early in the game. The campaigns are ideal for most promotional, business, or training situations. |