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So that your characters don’t all look alike, sound alike and act alike, characters should have distinct features. It is particularly important for you to know your main characters well—to have a solid sense of who they are. Yes, there can be similarities between two major characters, but differences are required.

I once attended a political forum that gave "pointed" a whole new meaning, when an audience member asked how much time the candidates would spend on their elected role. One candidate looked at the front row where the other candidate's family--including newborn twins--was seated. You could hear sharp intakes of breath happening throughout the hall.

You can play it here; if you scroll down to the links below the book trailer, you can link to 9 creative writing exercises and excerpts from the book. Creative writing exercises and excerpts from (re)Discover the Joy of [.]. A new trailer for the book (re)Discover the Joy of Creative Writing has been posted on YouTube.

Thie second edition of Harness the Business Writing Process features new examples, workshop exercises, and has been completely revised and updated. It is, quite simply, packed with information vital to anyone involved in the business writing process.

Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???)

Ideally, you would plan for audience participation exercises to be roughly evenly spaced through the presentation. However, having genuine, as opposed to contrived, exercises is more important. So if that isn’t built into the exercise itself, it’s your job to pull the value out of the exercise by debriefing it.

So the actor protects his voice by doing exercises to strengthen it, by warming it up before using it on stage and by learning breathing techniques to maximize its projection and tone. Other exercises to try: Start the day off humming gently. Here are some exercises to massage your facial muscles. WARM UP YOUR VOICE.

0160; Injuries sustained first playing soccer and then on a submarine led him to develop the Feldenkrais method of exercise and self-awareness.  0160; His exercises have helped many people recover more fully from injuries and handicaps than traditional medical practices allow. 

In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping&# that she usually leads in the slideology workshops. The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo Attendees.