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What's a Complication?
Using the previously established truth about the subject as its starting point, the Complication goes on to tell what happened next in the story that inevitably leads to a Question.
- Have a task to perform - Something stops us from performing that task - What should we do?
- Have a problem - Know the solution - How do we implement the solution?
- Have a problem - A solution has been suggested - Is it the right solution?
- Took an action - Action didn't work - Why not?
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The Top-Down Approach
Fill in the top box
1. What Subject are you discussing?
2. What Question are you answering in the reader's mind about the Subject"?
3 What is the Answer?
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The reasons why most people fail to write clearly
- Weaknesses of style, and it is notoriously difficult for a person who has completed the formal part of his education to change his writing style.
- Structure of the document: If a person's writing is un...
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The Bottom-Up Approach
You can work out the ideas from the bottom up by following a 3-step process.
1. List all the points you think you want to make.
2. Work out the relationships between them.
3. Draw...
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The Need to State the Logic
All mental processes (e.g., thinking, remembering, and problem solving) apparently utilize this grouping and summarizing process, so that the information in a person's mind might be thought of as being organized into one giant conglomeration of related pyramids.
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Where Do You Start the Situation?
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.
You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject with wh...
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The Magical Number Seven
There is a limit to the number of ideas you can comprehend at any one time.
The mind cannot hold more than about seven items in its short-term memory at any one time. Some minds can hold as many as nine items, while others can hold only five...
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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 pyranmi...
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Understand the requirements
To solve a problem, you have to understand exactly what the problem is.
When you start solving a problem, be sure to understand the starting point, the end goal, and the obstacles in between. The worst possible thing is to produce a solution that actually doesn’t do what’...
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- Use a note-taking app and create a new note. Name the note "Things that I worry about."
- List everything you worry about. Everything that you worry about goes on this list, no matter how small.
- Think of a solution for all your perceived problems.
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