How to keep your audience breathless

Innovative Writing Techniques

Lesson 1: Ball Gagging

Writing is tough.

.I call BS! Attention whore!

I’m offended.

You just want traffic to your

cave.

The Key: Engage

.You inspire me!

I’m going to re-draw this to

all my followers

Will you be the keynote drawer at our conference?

I “liked” this on Facecave

Our goal today: to give you cave octopi

You can’t even spell me.

I am that awesome.

Your Hosts

What’s my motivation?• Why am I doing this?• What makes you sit down and start typing?• Amy: photography and images

What’s my motivation?• Leslie: Prompted writing• Jim: being called out

I’m really happy for you, Imma let you

finish, but BusyDad is the greatest blog procrastinator of all

time!

It’s been so long since I last post---

How do I start?

Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages exercise.

How do I start?

Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and the concept of the “Shitty First Draft”

- THE BIBLE of writing, according to Leslie

How do I start?Everything starts out as a “Shitty First Draft” – according to Jim, who has no proof to back up that statement.

“And now,” cried Max, “let’s turn this mutha out!”

But my life is uninteresting

• Photoshop

“Photoshop makes your wildest dreams come true.”

But my life is uninteresting

• The Blog-Given right to embellish

No

Yes

You can make anything engaging

Make lists

Write an opinion piece

Tie it into the most watched viral video of the year

Tie it into current events

“I was going to let it go when the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, look at what happens when we do…”

Get scientific on it

Get poetic on it

Tap into your community

Dare to be…

You.