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Have you felt your heart pound with fear during horror movies? Did it make you nervous when the slasher was about to stab the lady in the shower? That's how it feels when the writer is controlling you. You can also control your readers in the same method. You can learn to control their heartbeat and the rate at which they read.
Perhaps you wonder what a writer would even care about how fast the reader reads. It's because you will want to jerk the reader into action scenes, but unending action scenes will mentally wear on them. The reader sorely needs slow scenes that deliver mental and emotional rest. This is when they will reassess the action scene you have just presented.
Let’s look at some samples of how you can control the reader’s speed:
"We bounced up the stairs two at a time, slipped into my room unnoticed, and closed the door without making a sound.”
- That sentence is fast because it has alliteration. (Alliteration is the succeeding sound of the same letter, or sounds that appear to be the same letter.) Take notice of the action verbs - bounced, stairs, slipped, unnoticed, closed, and sound. All have the S sound. There is also a T alliteration in - stairs, two, at, time, into, and unnoticed. This is double alliteration, and it increases the speed even more.
- Another way to speed up a scene is with action verbs, such as: "The roller coaster zipped and whirled at lightening speed,” or “The skater swished by in a rush.”
- Slow the scenes with settings, scenery, or by using words with Ws and Ls, like this:
“A little lady watched from the crowd, and glanced momentarily at her watch.”
Note the four Ls in the last sentence and the three Ws. That’s double alliteration and it should make the sentence flow fast, right? Not in this situation. The lulling sounds of the Ws and Ls overpower the alliteration to make it a slow sentence.
Let’s look at this sentence again, and apply what we know at this point:
"The roller coaster zipped and whirled at lightening speed.”
This sentence is fast because it has the S sound of alliteration. Right? No. It is considered slow because of the single W and four Ls? No, that's incorrect.This sentence has to be fast. Why? Just as the Ls and Ws overpower alliteration, action words will overcome Ws and Ls. When you write your own blogs, articles or stories, these are the skills you must learn.
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How I Used The Fresh Papaya (PawPaw):
The fruit was to be consumed ‘As is’ because we always have a small plate of fruit everyday around 5 pm.
I planned on adding a teaspoon of seeds into my Yogurt at lunchtime.
The ‘Coleslaw’ I would add to any Salad (even in a sandwich) as it’s summertime in Oz and we are eating a lot of Salads. Don’t know what I am going to do in the Winter though? If you have any ideas please add them as a comment so everyone can benefit.
I had also planned on five serves per day because I thought it would be better to ‘Drip Feed’ it into me, as my wife thinks I am a ‘Drip’ sometimes anyway – so that should fit.
Now… Continue reading Prostate Cancer Diary - My Papaya Recipe
Monday 6th Feb 2012: My Prostate Cancer Diary.
So here is the problem. I have dismissed Surgery completly and that leads me to Radio Therapy as the only available conventional medical alternative.
My Oncologist want me to have Hormone Treatment to:
- a: Slow the Growth of the Cancer cells by (basically) chemically castrating me. Ouch!
- b: Shrink the Prostate down to a smaller target for his magic Death Ray.
I didn’t want to do that with Hormone treatment, but can appreciate why he wants to do that.
So I’m looking into all types of Natural and Alternative medications.
The best I have come up with is PawPaw (Papaya) as there have been quite a few studies with very promising reasults, PLUS it has been… Continue reading Prostate Cancer Diary - My Natural Alternative
Prostate Treatments and Me.
Long time coming since my last post – but I have been kinda busy…. Tests – tests and more tests 
So this is the latest:
My Urologist sent me to the Radio Oncologist because I decided I do NOT want surgery. Apparently I can’t have Brachyatherapy (my original choice) because my Gleason Score is 8 – too high, so External Beam Therapy is the only option, even though they only found cancer cells in ONE of the TEN Biopsies they took.
HOWEVER: (I am discovering LOTS of ‘Howevers’), the Oncologist wants me to have Hormone Treatment first to bring my enlarged prostate down in size.
An ‘Average’ prostate is about 40mm – about the size of a small Plum -… Continue reading My Personal Prostate Cancer Treatment Options