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How to Make a Killing Jar: Out and About!

Nov 3, 2023

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Ace Baker

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Sara Dailey #007: Circle technique

Jun 30, 2013

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Ace Baker

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Ok, so it’s our final day of looking at Sara Dailey’s technique via her creative nonfiction piece, “The Memory Train.” Today it’s all about circle technique. If you look back to the first post of this week, you’ll see she began with a paragraph about Phineas Gage, a railway worker who LIVED after accidentally…
Sara Dailey #006: Character foils–another interesting contrast for your writing

Jun 29, 2013

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Ace Baker

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Character foils are two characters in the same situation who react differently. Picture two kids with an alcoholic parent. One grows up and never touches a drop of alcohol. The other becomes alcoholic. Those are foils, and they’re another way to show contrast, just like the rhetorical questions we explored yesterday. Let’s see…
Sara Dailey #005: Rhetorical questions and contrast

Jun 28, 2013

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Ace Baker

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I know what you’re thinking…POWER PUNCH? For a rhetorical question? Are you kidding me? But rhetorical questions are powerful because they automatically imply a CONTRAST and contrast is what makes writing interesting. What I mean is that there are usually two opposite ways of answering a question, so conflict is naturally indicated this…

How to Make a Killing Jar: Out and About!

Sara Dailey #007: Circle technique

Sara Dailey #006: Character foils–another interesting contrast for your writing

Sara Dailey #005: Rhetorical questions and contrast