The most persuasive words in English: The psychology of language. 8.4K Flares Filament.io Made with Flare More Info'> 8.4K Flares × Here is a secret right off the bat and I hope it isn’t too odd.
One of the things I fuss about a lot (especially for Buffer copy, for example our welcome email if you sign up!) Are words; very simple words in fact. Should it say “Hi” or “Hey.” Should it be “cheers” or “thanks.” There are many occasions when Joel and I sit over one line and change it multiple times, until we feel it really sits right. “How does this make you feel?” The question might sound very obvious. Recently we explored how much sleep do we really need to work productively. Our brain whilst listening to words Recently, a lot of the long standing paradigms in how our brain processes language were overthrown.
“Words are then shunted over to the left temporal lobe [of our brain] for processing, while the melody is channelled to the right side of the brain, a region more stimulated by music.” The UCL team tried to find out about exactly this. Henry Miller’s Reflections on Writing. 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. The Elmore Leonard Literary Arts and Film Festival. Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle from the New York Times, Writers on Writing Series.
By ELMORE LEONARD These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules. 1. 2. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword. There is a prologue in John Steinbeck’s "Sweet Thursday," but it’s O.K. because a character in the book makes the point of what my rules are all about. 3. The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. Is This Title O.K.? Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.
Beginning – check. Middle – check. End – check. But, hold on a sec, isn’t there something missing? Something rather vital? Sometimes I think I am going to have to give up and employ one of those companies that do nothing but invent names for things. The ancients felt the same way. Meanwhile, thinking pre-posthumously, how do they do it? One option is to steal someone’s else title. Gabriel García Márquez is, of course, the author of one of the great titles, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Walter Green Consider these two candidates for standout title of the 20th century.