Make it Memorable Part 2

Read, in Dotson’s book, pages 43 thru 55. Respond to what you read, and use these questions if you get stuck: What strikes you as interesting? In what ways do you agree or disagree with him? How does this fit where you are as a writer, and how will it help you become a better one?
(100 words minimum)

- One thing I found interesting about the second reading is how to make your viewers more interested in your story. I learned and found interesting that in order to intrigue your audience, you can do things like use dramatic tension or vivid imagery. This is called “How to Defeat the TV Remote Control”. I found interesting that there is such a things called gobbledygook and that you need to use an active voice that forces people to think that whatever they are watching is happening now. Something that I disagree with is conversation because I think that it’s not something that people really want to see. I tend to not use conversations because it drags on the story and is boring.


 Read this story and watch this one (a bit of a sports theme this week). Write two paragraphs (one about each) that explains how the story uses/handles at least three of these aspects. Give specific examples (100 words in each paragraph, so at least 200 total words).
- I think the article “Doing the right thing” had a lot of conversational talk but I think that it was interesting and it kept me intrigued. It helped me understand what was really going on and gave me a good idea of what everyone was thinking and feeling. Another thing used was the active voice that made you want to keep reading the article to find out what was going to happen next. The third thing was the surprises that the article had. The surprises included how the boys got the money for the winning shot, but how later they gave the money back to do the right thing, which was really surprising.

- For the news story about the football family, it had the persuasion of how to defeat the TV remote control. It was a really engaging story from the beginning and made you want to keep watching. It was interesting and intrigued you right from the beginning with the mom crying. Also surprises was a big one because it was so surprising that they had been watching football for that long and that they had 12 boys that all played football, along with 49 grandkids. Lastly,active voice was in the story with the reporter being able to have this, it made things sound more interesting and made you want to watch until the end.