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Poetry is something I struggled to follow growing up. Ultimately, as I grew my writing grew with me, and it managed to spark my interest in poetry.

I enjoy the laissez-faire approach of this podcast because of the comfortable approach of the podcast. Poetry is such an intimate art and has helped me learn to portray vulnerability through my writing with words.

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The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them.

The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them.

Feel deeper, smarter, charmed

Every time I listen to this podcast I am taken on a delightful & insightful journey with the loveliest of companions. The camaraderie between the hosts is infectious. The reflections are profound. Thank you for this gem of a podcast. Please don't stop.

Great podcast to chill to

Wonderful cohosts with amazing guests. Great for those who ponder about the creation, flow and the breaking down of lines and feelings. Definite must listen

Thank you so much!

You all are now my workout podcast, until I run out of episodes, but I feel like I've learned so much from y'all and it's been needed

Jason

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The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them. The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them. Every time I listen to this podcast I am taken on a delightful & insightful journey with the loveliest of companions.

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I wanted to use my favorite quote as an artifact on this blog because Truman Capote is my favorite author of all time, and that is because of his incomparable writing style.

It took me only 3 days from to read In Cold Blood, and I can remember coming away from the book feeling overwhelmed with sadness and a looming dark feeling. I think, rather I know, that this is largely because of the conveyor of emotion in almost every single page of the book. Capote works so hard to put the reader in the shoes of a criminal who massacred an entire family, and does so in such a successful way that I was disappointed to see Perry executed at the end of the book (despite the awful things he's done).
“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you learn to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you. The flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them? All right, you think they're fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment. But these are dreadful enemies you carry within yourself--in time destructive as bullets. Mercifully, a bullet kills its victim. This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted; there is still fire within his being but it is kept alive by casting upon it faggots of scorn and hate. He may successfully accumulate, but he does not accumulate success, for he is his own enemy and is kept from truly enjoying his achievements.” (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, p. 257)

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Episode 639 is co-hosted by Neville Goddard. The episode is titled 'The Bible Is All About You". I am not a routine podcast listener, but this podcast in particular has managed to stick with me and my ADHD brain.

As someone who is open to all religions and is essentially all-consumed with spirituality, all of which influences my writing profoundly, I took to this podcast because it exhibits how any piece of writing can be about you if you want it to so long as you're open-minded and willing to imagine yourself in the text.

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I can't really tell whether or not this is considered meme worthy, but I find it to be an accurate depiction of how to show, not tell, when it comes to writing.

Descriptive writing when it comes to conveying emotion is all about really getting into the way you look and feel when it comes to writing motives that focus on the reader.

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Love her or hate her, as there seems to be next to none who fall somewhere in the middle, Chrissy Teigen broke the hearts of many with her devastating social media post about losing her baby.

I chose to pick this post in particular because I am one of millions who could almost feel the heartache, despite never having miscarried. But through her vulnerability by showing society her pain through her word choice, she was able to instill her feelings unto others through emotion in her words.

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There wasn’t a single news channel that didn’t devote the entirety of their airtime to Covid-19. Naturally, having parents who kept the news on for the bulk of the day, it was merely impossible to hear about. Details upon details were continuously broadcasted along with photos and videos of people grieving the deaths of their loved ones or the bodies that permeated Chinese hospitals. In the beginning, when the word Covid-19 was fresh to my ears and hardly even a forethought, I can vividly recall being grateful that the natural disaster that was ravaging China was thousands of miles away from me. The idea of having to adhere to things like mask mandates, lockdowns, and isolations was a concept I childishly assumed would present itself. I was privy to the harsh fact that the unfolding of this pandemic showcased on television would soon become my existing reality. There was nothing more fear inducing than hearing about this country’s first Covid-19 case and the inevitably of the pandemic breaching our healthcare system. New cases appeared in increments, each of them quickly infiltrating states before appearing in mass quantities in counties merely minutes away from me. As someone with elderly grandparents and parents with pre-existing health conditions, it didn’t take long for fear to settle in and become an all-consuming emotion for me. What seemed to fuel my already endless bout of nerves and worry was the fact that my mother was a healthcare worker. Not only was she essentially inserting herself into what could best be compared to the eye of a storm, but she was getting a firsthand look at just how mortal Covid-19 was. In what seemed like a whirlwind, me and millions of other Americans found ourselves in a nationwide mandatory lockdown.

Halfway through my junior year after a late major change, and a ghastly amount of exams and projects, there was nothing more relieving to me than being given an extended spring break. The severity of Covid-19 was blissfully clouded by my friends returning home from school and two weeks of awarded downtime. The initial news breaking of an impended lockdown seemed like a lucrative suggestion without any seriousness to back it up, to which I happily overlooked it and went about my first week of spring break barhopping and enjoying the company of my childhood friends. It wasn’t until the following week, when Montclair State announced its decision to conclude the remainder of the semester by transitioning to an online-only learning experience. From there it felt like a whirlwind, as my access to friends and freedom in itself was briskly ripped out from beneath me. Before Governor Murphy induced a statewide lockdown, my mom had already decided to keep my family restricted to the confines of our home. Perhaps the biggest adjustment for me was trying to keep up with an entirely new system of learning, as students everywhere were involuntarily thrusted into the world of zoom classes. The toughest part about navigating my way through coursework was how hard it was to get ahold of professors when it came to questions or concerns. I struggled to keep myself on a schedule while factoring in the fact that I was one out of hundreds of other students bombarding professors with emails.

Sunday dinners with family have been an ongoing excursion for as long as I can remember. With cousins of all ages, and family members who live scattered throughout the state, it was the one day a week we all made time to sit down together and reconnect. It was an event everyone looked forward to and was immensely mourned upon the ongoing pandemic restrictions. Family has always been such an important and cherished aspect of my life, so to have to surrender that privilege indefinitely was tough to cope with. Despite living in a house with five other family members, it felt lonely not being able to visit with my grandparents and cousins. My grandparents are all in their eighties, along with cancer diagnoses and other health concerns, so even before the lockdown being in any kind of close proximity to them was strictly prohibited. Even though it was for a good reason, in addition to ensuring their safety, it was one of the hardest things about Covid-19 for me. Even now, with restrictions being lifted, my time with them is spent at least 6 feet apart and with masks on for the entirety of our visits. My grandfather suddenly died in early February of 2020, just before Covid-19 flipped the entire world onto its back, and my nana had really taken it hard. It weighed so heavy on my heart to see her mourn the death of someone she’d been with for over fifty years alone, without the ability to have anybody help distract her or physically be with her.

Looking at Covid-19 through a more positive scope, it’s truly remarkable to see the way this country was able to take something as morbid as Covid-19 and birth such creative ways in response to something so unforeseen. Technology is constantly evolving and transforming, and I feel as though this pandemic has spawned new aspects of the internet and the virtual world as a whole that were previously unbeknownst. Zoom has completely revolutionized the way people around the world do business, as it’s opened so many doors that perhaps may have never even been acknowledged let alone considered. It was so heartwarming and inspiring to see the innovative ways grade-school teachers connected with their students in an attempt to still make the most out of their learning experience. It also was a new way for people anywhere in the world to connect with friends and family in the absence of face-to-face gatherings. In addition to the benefits social media and technology gifted to society, the pandemic was able to bring people together in a more intimate way. I genuinely believe that, because everyone everywhere was facing the same hardship, people came to be more empathetic and even understanding of one another. Things like drive by birthdays or baby showers were such a creative and touching way to show affection. Also, as a result of the free time people were left with, so many of them were able to pick up new hobbies or find new outlets to express imagination or talent. It’s such a crucial task to fight and find a silver lining during a time where it may feel like things may never get back to how they were.

At times, I tend to find myself in disbelief that this post-pandemic world is an existing reality and not a figment of my imagination. Time has seemingly passed by so quickly and it often feels as though I can’t quite remember a time where I didn’t shop for groceries with a mask on or wonder what people I’m around may be infected. Through the first hectic ten months of Covid-19, my family and I were incredibly blessed to have not been infected. It made me somewhat ignorant to the virus and the serious implications it came with. Fast forward to January of 2021, when I tested positive for Covid-19. Actually having experienced the virus and passing it to every member in my household unknowingly, truly made me aware of the way it operates and how serious it can be. I had lost my sense of taste and smell for over two months in addition to excruciatingly painful headaches and fatigue that took me weeks to fully fight off. I had never believed any of the wild Covid-19 stories pertaining to the aftermath until I was physically experiencing it, since now when I smell things they first smell like burning plastic before smelling of anything else. Each member of my family experienced different symptoms, and at one point my dad had spiked a fever to as high as 106. It was a terrifying experience to watch, and it was only than that I truly comprehended the seriousness of this pandemic.

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An infamous read and, personally, my favorite book of all time is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. To best capture the motive of style that focuses on a reader, I immediately thought of this particular scene from In Cold Blood movie.

This exact scene was scripted word for word directly from the book, and Perry captures the true emotion of Capote's writing. It is raw, heart wrenching, and guttural on screen as it is in the book. The conveyor of emotion is so transparent and authentic that it gives a genuine opportunity for readers to really put themselves in Perry's exact position.

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In Cold Blood (8/8) Movie CLIP - The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1967) HD

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Social Role: Teacher

Behaviors and Attitudes:
- Teachers are devoted, selfless, innovative and engaging individuals
- They are responsible for educating the youth and equipping them will skills that will support them inside and outside an academic setting.
- Use creative, fun, and unique strategies to instill knowledge

A chorus of awe sung out through the classroom, mimicking the harmonious sound of a church choir as each child took in the scenery around them. Their faces oozed with pure excitement, eyes sparkling with joy and smiles so big it took up almost all of their face, ass they marveled at the elaborate math lesson displayed in front of them. "I bet nobody can guess what we're learning today!" I announced in a sing song voice, which was met with boisterous shouts and guesses. Every kid raced to their desk as they shouted over one another, their voices competing to see who could be the loudest in guessing their ideas. Joy became blissful excitement upon realizing a mountain of marshmallows had accumulated on each desk. As the giddy children sat in their seats, practically vibrating with anticipation as each of them followed me with eyes like a hawk, I wrote the topic of today's lesson in the brightest red marker I could find. "We're learning to do multiplication with marshmallows!"

This paragraph is audience based, as it focuses on the students in the classroom. It also focuses on engaging the readers in an attempt to insert themselves in the shoes of the student. I tried my best to make it is as captivating as possible in a way that kept a reader guessing and anticipating, kind of like how the students in the excerpt are being portrayed to feel.

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Lacy Bogg's gets personal, in the best way, in her blog post about incorporating emotion into text.

An aspect in her post that resonated with me the most was the way she touched on the importance of how to 'show, don't tell' when writing emotion. It invites readers to really participate in what they're reading. She touches on the importance of incorporating adjectives and verbs, which I feel is the most crucial part when it comes to reader-focused motives in writing.

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Once More With Feeling: How to Write with Emotion

A little over a week ago, I held my first-ever Blog Workshop Webinar.

In the writing world, when you bring a piece to a group to work on it, it's called workshopping.

So I had the idea that some brave volunteers might bring some blog posts for us to workshop together, and it went really well! I had four awesome volunteers and I think we shared some really great tips with the people who came to watch.

(If you're interested in seeing the replay, you'd better be sure you're on my list! I've decided only to share it with subscribers, and the link goes out TOMORROW! Use the box on the right or at the bottom of this post to sign up.)

What I thought was so incredibly interesting was that there was one suggestion I could make to all four of these very different woman -with very different businesses and at very different stages of blog development-to improve their blog posts.

Write with more emotion.

We've talked before about how writing a blog is a little like writing a classic, long-form sales letter over a long period of time, and if you've ever done any research on copywriting, one of the things you'll notice is that good copy engages people's emotions. It makes them feel something-usually the pain point the product they're reading about tries to solve.

Here's an example from one of my sales pages:

It used to be that I blogged as the inspiration struck. Lots of people do this, and on the surface of it, there's nothing wrong with that. I had a schedule I tried to stick to, posting every Monday and Wednesday, and at first, that worked just fine.

Then, there was one day that I forgot (read: procrastinated) to write my blog post until the night before, so I was up late pounding something out.

And maybe it wasn't my best work ever, but it was a post, right? I was sticking to the schedule.

Then came the day that I forgot (err... procrastinated) to write my blog post until the DAY it was supposed to go up! So there I am, Monday morning, trying desperately to come up with something to say while my daughter's still running around in her pajamas, and I'm typing, and trying to answer her questions, and trying to come around to an actual point with the blog post, and trying to keep her from coloring on the walls, and no, you may not have "just one show," well, OK, maybe just one show while mommy works, which turned into two or three shows, and WHEW! Got that sucker posted by noon.

But it's OK, because I stuck to my schedule, right?

Then there was the week that I didn't stick to my schedule, because life got in the way, or I wasn't inspired, or I was just too busy with other stuff.

And that week turned into two weeks...

And then three weeks...

And then it turned out that I'd only posted twice in the last month.

Oops?

Can anyone here relate to that? I bet you can. In fact, when I brought that sales page to my copywriting mastermind group (because even profesh writers need to workshop their work from time to time!), several people commented on how well they could relate to it. And I believe that's because I'm tapping into an emotion here.

Where's the emotion? It's chiefly in that longer middle paragraph:

Then came the day that I forgot (err... procrastinated) to write my blog post until the DAY it was supposed to go up! So there I am, Monday morning, trying desperately to come up with something to say while my daughter's still running around in her pajamas, and I'm typing, and trying to answer her questions, and trying to come around to an actual point with the blog post, and trying to keep her from coloring on the walls, and no, you may not have "just one show," well, OK, maybe just one show while mommy works, which turned into two or three shows, and WHEW! Got that sucker posted by noon.

Most of that paragraph is one long, run-on sentence. Grammatically correct? Nope. But does it evoke the feeling of being rushed and trying to do 15 things at once? You betcha.

I'm trying to evoke that rushed, panicked, "What the flying zucchini am I going to write about?!?" feeling that I knew my ideal customers for that product struggle with.

But notice that I don't ever use the words "panic" or "rushed" to convey that emotion. You get that feeling because I'm bringing you into my head, showing you how I feel.

Show, don't tell.

As some of you may know, I am an aspiring novelist, and have spent many years honing the craft of fiction writing, and if you've ever read or seen or heard ANYTHING about fiction writing, you've likely heard the phrase, "show, don't tell."

Good writing-fiction or otherwise-shows us things, it doesn't tell us things. For example, a novelist doesn't just say, "He was sad." That would be telling us. A novelist says, "He hunched his shoulders against the insistent rain, clutching the lapels of his jacket together as though he could hold himself together with the gesture." That's showing us how the character feels through what he's doing.

How does that apply to blogging?

Well, take my example above. I could have said, "Have you ever felt rushed to publish a post and panicked because you didn't know what to write about?"

Some people would think, yeah, I've felt that.

But by writing that whole long paragraph that really brought you into how I (the character, in this case) was feeling, people are more likely to say-

Oh my God, I hate that feeling!!

Make them feel the pain before you solve the problem.

In the webinar, I coached one volunteer to make her readers feel really crappy about themselves before she showed them how to do better.

Sounds cruel, doesn't it?!
Most of your blog posts (like your product or service) solve a problem. Agitate that problem before you solve it to make a bigger impact.
But here's the deal:

If you remind people of their problem and really make them feel it, then when you solve it, they'll feel that much better.

As I said, all four of the blogs we workshopped could have punched up the emotion to elicit a bigger response from their readers. One of them wrote me afterward for more advice on how to learn to write with more emotion.

My advice to her?

Practice. This is one of those skills that doesn't always happen the first time you try it, but the more you practice, the better you'll get. Try adding it to your list of things to look at when you edit your post, and see where you can dial up the emotions a bit every time you write.

Because this is also one of those little tweaks that can have a BIG impact on your writing!

Original Photo: Incase. via Compfight cc

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Once More With Feeling: How to Write with Emotion - Lacy Boggs

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A little over a week ago, I held my first-ever Blog Workshop Webinar. In the writing world, when you bring a piece to a group to work on it, it's called workshopping. So I had the idea that some brave volunteers might bring some blog posts for us to workshop together, and it went really well!

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Beneath this brief introduction to my blog, a plethora of different artifacts decorate your screen. I've picked the things that are currently illustrating your screen in hopes to convey how I perceive myself as a writer, in addition to my perspective on writing as a whole.

As you click a youtube link or glance over a writing excerpt from my favorite author, you'll come to see that this collage has been dedicated to the way a writer utilizes motives focused on readers and incorporates  social roles to do so. By using things like vocabulary, word choice, grammar, and even the tone or description in our writing, we're able to separate ourselves from others and establish individuality by creating an experience that can prove to be personable for everyone.