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Articles by Jay Speyerer

• Sounds of the Season
  Pay particular attention to what impinges on your eardrums this season, and then record them or see what memories surface.
  Published 16Dec2009, viewed 297 times

• Yancy's Dog
  Memories can be buried deep, only to surface later. But something has to trigger them.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 350 times

• Accidental Magic
  Research is mundane and boring to a lot of people, whether it's for school essays, genealogy, business presentations, or writing in general, so they just want to get it over with. But in doing that, they don't open themselves up to serendipity.
  Published 01May2009, viewed 299 times

• Squinting in the Moonlight
  In fiction writing, we have a concept called willing suspension of disbelief. It amounts to a mutual agreement: the storyteller agrees to lie and the audience agrees to believe it. But the storyteller is still obligated not to do anything that would pull the reader/listener/viewer out of the story.
  Published 24Apr2009, viewed 340 times

• Shug, Dub, and Dabbs: What's In A Company Name?
  Pick a name for your company and a screen name for yourself that communicate the image you want.
  Published 03Feb2009, viewed 293 times

• Humor: Not Everyone Can Hear The Funny
  In movies, there's music that both the characters and audience can hear, and there's music that only the audience can hear. The same is true with humor.
  Published 01Feb2009, viewed 352 times

• Doctor Who and Who Else?
  Dialogue has two overarching functions in fiction and nonfiction: reveal character and advance the plot. In movie and TV fiction, there has seldom been a truly lone hero. If he were alone, who would he talk to?
  Published 17Dec2008, viewed 306 times

• Cultivating Organic Humor
  You can be an effective speaker even if you don't have a sense of humor. On the other hand, if you have been blessed with a good sense of humor, that isn't enough to be a speaker; you also need a sense of timing.
  Published 17Dec2008, viewed 319 times

• The Look of Appraisal
  Eye contact in communication can be dicey. A look can be an invitation or an invasion, a challenge or an appraisal. A lot of appraising goes on in Los Angeles.
  Published 12Dec2008, viewed 331 times

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