The Vertical Relationship
The vertical relationship serves marvelously to help capture the reader's attention. It permits you to set up a question/answer dialogue that will pull him with great interest through your reasoning.
What you put into each box in the pyranmid structure is an idea. An idea is a statement that raises a question in the reader's mind because you are telling him something he does not know.
The way to ensure total reader attention, therefore, is to refrain from raising any questions in the reader's n1ind before you are ready to answer then1.
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The Top-Down Approach
Fill in the top box
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3 What is the Answer?
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The key characteristic of all opening Situation sentences is that they anchor you in a specific time and place, and thus establish the base for a story to come.
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