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All creative writers are bound to an invisible law of journalism. From the beginning of time, the same structure has been used. All of the great writers use it. But after this lesson, you will see that story structure is far more than the initial breakdown:

· Exposition – the beginning, what the story is about

· Conflict – conflict with man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. internal conflict

· Climax

· Resolution

If you Google “story structure,” you will find variations of the story structure. You may see it it written a little differently, but it comes down to theme, conflict, conclusion. No matter how you word it, the basic answer is the same. All of these things must be present to make… Continue reading Short Story Structure - 13 Points You Don't Want to Miss

Professionally handwritten CV are primary tools around in commercializing one’s vocation in recent professional world. However, many professionals do not seem to interpret the grandness of generating their resume handwritten by an executive resume writer. Very few individuals recognize that the published CVs they send to companies can hold or bust their career. A bad composed CV can have one sound like amateur to a future employer; but a clear-cut, well-written CV will prove to a boss that you are the top-grade in your sphere. First, take a minute to canvass your sphere of concern. Who are these masses to whom you are posting your resumes? What will trigger their concern? Apply flawless and brief words to point your functions, but do not handle your… Continue reading Receive a benefit over others by receiving your curriculum vitae published professionally

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When you have finished reading this article, you will have a good idea on how to write believable dialogue and know when you can break the rules.

Using effective dialog is a main part of any story. Good dialog moves the story forward and makes characters come to life. Dialogue will engage your readers as you reveal your characters to them.

This definition comes by way of the Encarta World English Dictionary: “the words spoken by characters in a book… or a section of a work that contains spoken words.

Dialogue has several functions:

? To express through conversations what the reader must know so they can understand the character’s actions, motivations and thoughts.

To convey character that will reveal the lives of people in the story.

?… Continue reading Secrets of Writing Dialog

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Stories may differ in message, content and characters, but each one is required to have these 16 different elements. This article will equip you with a checklist that will be worth keeping - although it is not necessarily in order.

• Stories must have a workable theme to succeed. This is the thread that weaves seamlessly throughout the story, revealing the general theme.
• It must also have a plot, which is another name for the center climax.
• Every story must have an arc. This is the gradual increase of momentum and interest that builds at the beginning, reaches a fever pitch in the middle, and declines into resolutions of story conflicts at the end.
• Some stories move fast and some move slow, but all of them move at

In technical writing there’s usually more than one way to accomplish any given task.

Let’s imagine we have a MS Word document with many different paragraph styles. But how are you going to shift all section headers to right by one tab at the same time and then change their colors to red?

Find-and-Replace is a great functionality but we cannot use it here. It is possible of course to search for a particular paragraph style but you need to search them by a search word. When you locate all the headers for that particular paragraph style you cannot select them all at the same time.

To locate all the headers in the Table of Contents and then select them all at the same time would be impossible.… Continue reading Using Paragraph Styles for Global Changes in MS Word Documents