How To Get Your Contact Details Across: When The Organisers Won't Let You

Have you ever spoken at an event and they won’t allow you to give your details? Have you gone on the radio and they forget to announce where you can be contacted? If your contact details are left out or if you’re prevented from giving information, you’ll need to play the game a little smarter.

Reshaping Your Client's Writing Expectations

When you are negotiating a contract, do you accept it on face value or offer valuable input that could make or break the success of the project. Or, are you too timid to speak up and worried that you may lose an important client? Read on for an example on how to tackle important differences with a writing contract.

The Difference Between Critiquing and Criticism

Creativity is as fragile as a budding flower; good critiquing helps it blossom whereas negative criticism nips it in the bud. This article explores how to differentiate and what to do to protect your creativity from destructive criticism from without and within.

Hero's Journey, Story Structure, Screenwriting Structure - Alien (1979)

The Hero’s Journey is THE screenwriting and story structure template. By utilising this structure, screenwriters can quickly build effective and quality stories. There are more than 188 stages to the Hero’s Journey.

Easy Screenwriting, Hero's Journey, Screenwriter

Just build a story around the Hero’s Journey. It is as simple and as difficult as that. If JK Rowling can do it, so can you. Yes, the Harry Potter series stories all mirror the same template, as does The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption and a thousand other stories and films.

Hero's Journey: Detailed Analysis

A few elements of the Call to Adventure include:

The Hero's Journey and Screenwriting: The Hero's True Nature

One element of the Call to Adventure is the demonstration of the Hero's (or Anti-Hero's ) True Nature. Equally, it is important to demonstrate the nature of the antagonist as a polar force.

Communication Skills: We Are Not All Fortunate To Be Able To Talk Fluently

There are many people in the world who have problems with their communication. In this article I concentrate on the specific speech impediment called stuttering.

4 Methods To Master The #1 Success Secret Of Infopreneuring (1 of 3)

CONTENT IS KING! In the world of Online Marketing, you know that without content, you have nothing. So, are you constantly developing new content? In this article I discuss Methods 1 and 2 of the 4 main strategies for developing fresh new content that will keep your customers coming back to you again and again!

Hero's Journey: Character and Climax

The apotheosis is where the character climaxes. The precursor to that is the atonement with the father, where the hero confronts that which prevents his illumination.

American Screenwriter; Hero's Journey - Celebrating the Success of the Trials

Once the Hero has passed his trials (completed this stage of the transformation), there is often a celebration. At this point, the hero also begins to shed his Old Self. It is also not uncommon for the hero to be given a prize at this point.

Writing and Speaking - Essential Elements in Language Arts Lesson Plans

All Language Arts lesson plans should include curriculum objectives related to writing and speaking. These are the main sectons of all state and mandated Language Arts curriculums for all grades from Kindergarten to High School.

Screenwriting University: Hero's Journey and the Build Up to the Seizure of the Sword

The Seizure of the Sword is a critical part of any story and the Hero's Journey in general. Often, the build up consists of a few phases:

Screenwriting Forum: Hero's Journey;Should Screenwriting Be A Marathon?

There are two elements ot this: Time Pressure versus Incubation.

Screenwriting Format; Hero's Journey: Deliberate and Structured Road of Trials

The stage of the Transformation, also known as the Road of Trials, is one of the most deliberate and structured parts of a screenplay.