"Non-boring" Nonfiction Magazine Article Writing: A concise compilation of techniques that can help you pump life into your nonfiction short-story writing

This compilation of tricks of the storyteller's trade can help you write true magazine articles with the same gusto that fiction writers have always used. Whether you want to perk up your church bulletin or club newsletter input, or you have aspirations of writing magazine articles or compilation books - you'll find many useful tools inside. The bibliography will point the way for the serious writer to uncover a wealth of comprehensive resources. You will find out how to "write life into your stories" by giving free rein to your creative right-brain abilities before you switch on your left-brain "English teacher." You will pick up some of the basic story-telling techniques that fiction writers have known for years, like using various repetitive patterns to produce word-rhythms, and painting colorful pictures in the reader's mind with specific detail-triggers. In the section on making your article-writing more "reader-friendly," you will discover how to become a future-reader representative. You'll see that you can form a friendship with your prospective reader by being interesting, friendly and genuinely concerned about his or her reading experience. As you read through "bringing them into the picture," you will find out how to use language to simulate the zoom lens of a camera...focusing on specific details, then pulling back for a wide-angle shot. You will also learn methods to involve the reader in actively creating the story, so that he or she can become, in essence, a co-writer of your tale. And finally, in the section titled "keeping them on their toes," you will uncover hints for serving up a tasty variety of writing structures and sensory triggers. The examples of potential leads can help you start off your true tale with a compelling "bait" that can hook the reader and pull him right into your story with you - which is of course, exactly where you want him.