Tag: knockout idea

8 Titles You Can THINK SOMETHING DIFFERENT For. . .

Jul 4, 2013

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Ace Baker

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In the July / August 2013 Report on Business, Eric Reguly has an article titled “STORAGE WARS,” but it’s not about the TV show where people buy abandoned storage lockers in the hopes of finding treasure. It’s actually aboput Big Oil’s reserves and what would happen to them if we stopped “burning the stuff…
Knockout Idea: Photo captions

Jun 23, 2013

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Ace Baker

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Here’s a knockout idea I got while reading Ariel Levy’s story, “Living Room Leopards.” At the very beginning of the story, there was a photo of a cross-bred cat: a mix between a wildcat and a domestic cat. The caption read: Half-bred crossbreeds are in vogue but controversial, and illegal in some states. …
Knockout Idea: Taiye Selasi on the importance of photography to writing

Jun 20, 2013

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Ace Baker

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Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go, says, “I spend a great deal of time documenting…I’m always taking pictures. Somehow, these little snapshots of the world inform my work…. An elderly couple walking, rain on windows, light on anything, anywhere–these quiet details of everyday life are the stuff of human experience.” Try this: …