Successful Documentation Projects - Part 3 of 3 - 'Writing'

So you understand your user documentation project and you’ve specced it out. Now you’re ready to write. Here’s some tips to help you on your way.

Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

1) Listen without judgment. The key to good communication is listening well. Save your judging for later after you have heard and understood what was said. 2) Listen with the willingness to be swayed...

How to Tell or Write a Story

Humorist Rix Quinn offers a simple formula for presenting new information.

Hero's Journey - Meeting with the Goddess

The hero encounters a value that drives him to consciously and forcefully enter the world of the antagonism – something he has previously resisted on some level. This value is often outside the hero’s present frame of reference or pattern of behaviour.

Adult Education: School Never Ends!

Some of us thought that when we graduated from high school, we would no longer be required to sit in classes for any more days of our lives. Others of us went on to college, sure that this would be the end of our education days...

The Truth About Article Marketing

It seems as though article marketing is the biggest thing in Internet marketing right now. How do you get your name out there? Articles. How do you become an expert in your niche? Articles. How do you [insert money making phrase here]? Articles. But why? And how?

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.

Russian Pen Pal and Russian Pen Pals

A Russian pen pal can be exciting and enlightening, as you write letters to a person living in Russia, sharing differences between your country and Russia. Russian pen pals also present an opportunity to share things that you may have in common.

Screenwriting, Screenplays, Monomyth, Hero's Journey

The Monomyth is another term for the Hero’s Journey. The concept derives from the idea that there is, in fact, only one story and that it is retold universally and cross culturally. There are at least 188 stages to this story.

Indian Journalism

New Era of Indian Journalism

Publish or Perish: It's Not Only for Academia, Part 2

The journey of being a writer is truly the biggest payoff ot all. In the second and final segment of the series we explore different aspects of the writer's journey, it's challenges and its rewards and look into the passions that drive us to write.

The Hero's Journey - Story Structure for Screenwriting: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The following SUMMARY uses Million Dollar Baby – Academy Award Winner Best Film 2005 as an example. It should be noted that there are two heroes in this story, a) Maggie and b) Frankie:

Refusing The Hero's Journey : Screenwriting Tips, Tricks and Tools

One critical element of the hero's journey is Refusal. If the hero is willing, then refusal often comes in the form of an interdiction and / or warning. If the hero is naturally unwilling, then an unbearable antagonism often pushes the hero into the adventure.

Hero's Journey - Master of the Two Worlds

The Master of the Two Worlds is in fact the Final Conflict between the hero and the antagonism. Here, the hero has developed sufficiently to be master of both his Old and his New World. There are a number of elements that are common in this stage of the Hero's Journey: