Here, presented a few steps, or how you can do to make the school play scenarios (scenarist). The steps are as follows:

1.      Specify the story idea
This is the earliest stages how you can create a scenario writing later drama school. Your first step is to define the story idea of the scenario. You can dig up or find the idea of inspiration itself. The experience that you never feel or you experience in your daily life.
By having experience, you later can make the school play scenarios with spiced by your imaginations. Or if you do not already have an interesting experience that could be raised in a school play scenario, you can dig up the stories and experiences of your friends.

2.Top of  Form

The trick remains the same. But, finding stories ideas are not easy. You must be diligent, industrious interviewing your friends to get stories ideas. Not just passively wait for inspiration to come.
If you still do not have find stories ideas, you try to watch news, read the readings from various sources, novels, tabloids or magazines. That way you will be getting stories ideas to created scenarios. Try, you do this way first. Choose one of the courses so you can find stories ideas.

Earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic eruption are the most horrible natural disasters in the world. The human being can do a great to change the living environment. We could make the car. We could make the boat. We could make the airplane. We could build the skyscraper. We even can make everything which you could imagine. And we even could explore the outer space. But we could do nothing when facing such natural disasters.

We could do nothing to save such people in disasters besides help the survival ones to rebuild their houses. We always say that the doomsday is coming with humor when talking about the frequently natural disasters. Not because we do not afraid about the end of the world but we could do nothing since we are only human being. We always ask others about this question: “Is 2012 doomsday coming?” No one would answer this question completely. But no one would say no immediately since there are countless tragedies all over the world recent years. What shall we do if the doomsday is coming? Stop working? Or continue to live as normal?

I am the one who prefer to believe that the doomsday is coming. Maybe 2012 is not the end of the world. But in my opinion, the world is not as safe as before. The world is full of tragedies. The end of the world is coming sooner or later. I do not want to wait to die. So I prefer to work harder. I prefer to enjoy the life. At the same time, I try to cherish time and life. And I try to protect myself and my family.

But how I could to protect myself and keep healthy? I tried to get rid of the bad habits. Do the exercises with my family every morning. Go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier. I try to eat more healthy food. I even tried to quit smoking. Since I am a heavy smoker and I try to quit smoking in vain. So I accept my friend’s suggestion to buy some electronic devices for myself. I even persuade my family and friends to learn some survival skills with me. I think it is quite useful when meeting such terrible disasters like what happened in Indonesia. I am not a pessimistic person. On the contrary, I am the optimistic one. I do not want to be the one who is regret about his life when dying. We could do nothing when meeting the terrible tragedies, but we must learn something from the tragedies.

Are you still wasting of time? Do you feel tired of life? If so, please have a look at the victims in Indonesia or somewhere are suffering the tragedy. You may change your opinion later. The life will be much easier than you thought before. Tragedy will not bring us to death, only the helplessness can do that.

Is 2012 doomsday coming? What would you do if you meeting such natural disasters? What would you do if someone has predicted that the end of the world is coming? Would you like to share your opinion with me?

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So while you are working on your resume make sure you give yourself plenty of time to write a good cover letter. Here are some tips for writing a letter that will leave your readers wanting to know more about you:

- Get to the point. You want your letter to be brief and to the point. It only needs to be a couple of paragraphs. Never let your letter be more than one page. State what position you are applying for, why you are a good candidate and let them know what documents are attached (resume, application, etc).

- Error free. Your letter must have no mistakes. Check the spelling several times to ensure there are no misspelled words. Having a mistake in your cover letter will give a poor impression to the person reading it.

- Type it. Never turn in a cover letter that is handwritten. If you do not have a computer and printer, borrow one. Go to the local library. Do what you must, but make sure you letter is typed using a word processor.

- Keep it simple. Do not use fancy fonts or colors on your letter. Use a regular font in black ink. Print it on plain white paper.

Follow these simple tips and you will have a good cover letter. Take time on this and don’t rush it. Ask your friends to look over it for errors and overall quality. A good cover letter will help open the door to interviews and acceptance to schools and new jobs.

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Angie Webb

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I’ve rarely had a better example of writing for a particular audience. If you can, be there when a speech you’ve written is presented to an audience. It’s a first-hand opportunity for you to see whether the speech works or not. I sometimes cringe when I hear something I’ve written and it doesn’t work the way I intended. Or the audience doesn’t get it, or the idea goes right over their heads.

Knowing the audience tells you what kind of content is going to work for that audience. A group of scientists is going to be different from a group of marketers. An audience of booksellers will have things in common with and things different from a group of publishers. Are you able to identify exactly who that audience is and the mood they’re in? A sales team coming off a banner year will be in a very different space than a team struggling to keep things together in a recession.

Then you have to ask yourself what the audience is expecting of you? Are you catering to their interests? Have you got an announcement that’s going to affect them directly? Are they expecting good news, or something that’s not particularly pleasant? Are they celebrating something and what you have to say is the icing on the cake?

If you are called upon to write a speech, here’s what I’d like you to do. I’d like you to find out as much about your audience as possible. Who are they? What’s their background? What’s their educational level? What position do they hold in an organization? What issues are they confronted with? What kind of tone is going to work for them? You have to do some research here. It needn’t be a lot but it must be enough for you to be able to paint a picture of your audience. Once that’s in place, you can begin to put together what you intend to say, and the tone in which it should be said.

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A recent study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology dealt with way-finding directions. The researchers had a group of people each write directions from one point in a city to another. A second group examined the directions and rated them, without actually using them. The rating was based on the things we assume to be typical, such as, clarity, easy to read and understand. A third group had to follow the directions. The resulting were surprising. The people who followed the directions that had received the worst rating actually got to the destination faster than the people following the directions rated as the best. There seems to be a gap between what people perceive to be good directions and what actually are good directions. It turns out that what appeared to be difficult directions, actually contained more information.

Another recent study that I ran across in the Economist dealt with the effect of fonts. People were asked to read some information about aliens. The information was presented in different fonts. Then they were given a test to assess their recall of the information. Those who read the information in a font that was more difficult to read, like comic, actually remembered more of the information than those who read the same information in a font that is easier to read, like arial. It appears that fonts that are more difficult to read, slow us down and force us to think about what we are reading more than if we zip through fonts that are easier to skim.

How about the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words? Including diagrams in instructions and directions is something that we assume will improve our ability to follow them. A third study I reviewed recently dealt with users learning new software. The researchers found that including diagrams made no difference to the learners’ ability to comprehend the instructions.

I am not going to change how I give directions or write instructions quite yet. A couple of studies are not conclusive enough to develop new prescriptions. But I am going to keep them in mind and perhaps question my own methods when people just don’t seem to get what I’m telling them.

Ron Strand teaches communications and continuing education at Mount Royal University and is working on a doctorate degree in distance education. He has a website with some of his ideas about marketing, communications and distance learning Ron’s Ideas.

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Books require someone to read the book. If you don’t have a group of readers you don’t have anything except a bunch of paper with type on it. You have to find the group you will sell most of the books to and concentrate on them. You can’t be all over. If you look at T.V. channels they always are aimed at a specific group of watchers. Cartoon channels are aimed at kids and teenagers, the news channels at those who want to be kept up to date, science-fiction channels, etc. They concentrate on one group of people, because otherwise nobody will watch them; it is the same with books.

All books need to meet a need. A weight loss book helps to meet the needs of someone who is trying to lose weight, while a fiction book meets the needs of someone who needs to be entertained. Your book must do the same: it needs to give the reader answers or solutions, or at least help them find these answers and solutions to their needs.

The best type of person with a need is someone with a problem or group of problems. Your readers are no different, so find a common problem in the community you are aiming at and work it to your advantage. All problems have solutions, so promise a solution to this problem in your book, and give them the solution. If it happens to be a fiction then make the character’s problem their problem now; they must feel like the only way for an answer is to buy your book and read it.

If you are publishing a book just for the sake of publishing a book it won’t work. It must have feeling. You must have a reason to write. Figure out why you want to – why you have to – write this book, and you will do much better. This will also be required for the blurb on the front of the book telling the reader a little about you. You have to know what entitles you to be able to write this book and help people with whatever problem they happen to have, whether it be a lack of entertainment or learning how to play the kazoo.

Many people today write books as a means of branding themselves. If this is your reason there is one important fact you need to know.

People really don’t give a darn about who the publisher is.

They care about what the book contains, how the writer can help them, and the fact that it’s published. What this means is that you don’t have to convince a traditional publishing house to publish your book. Modern on demand publishers have given you the capability to publish the book yourself. As far as the public is concerned, you’ll do just as well publishing under a name of your choosing. It is best not to use your name as the publisher’s name, however. Use something different enough for people to not know right away that it’s you publishing the books. The only problem of course, is that this doesn’t work with book sellers who continue to rely on the traditional publishing houses for their product.

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At succeeding meetings, though, I began to wonder if perhaps some of us, in our eagerness to show our bosom acquaintance with the man, weren’t prone to overdo it just a bit.

A manuscript without a dozen or more unfamiliar words became a rarity, and the first person to use a “Rogetism” owned it for at least the next two meetings. No one dared show up without a tattered copy of Roget under an arm or tucked discretely in a bag or purse. And the words, “Roget says…..” were enough to settle any synonymical argument that might arise. In just a few short weeks we elevated the man to sainthood.

Secretly, I grew a bit tired of hearing about him but, to retain my standing in the group, dutifully came up with a new Rogetic application each week.

But, alas, one sad Tuesday morn I discovered, to my horror, that I had forgotten to prepare my usual scintillating offering. Determined to dazzle the group with my best work yet, I rushed to the computer and began tapping out ideas.

An hour passed quickly, but nothing worthwhile emerged. I thought and thought, but each time I picked up my little blue Thesaurus, a severe case of Roget’s block attacked with new vengeance. What was I to do? The only solution I could think of was to call in sick. And so, finally, I did.

My agonizing continued for a few more days before I came up with a brilliant idea. I would, with Roget’s help, rewrite the nursery rhymes I had learned as a child. They would be wonderful, marvelous, stupendous. The kids would not only learn the old rhymes, but they would end up with limitless vocabularies. Roget would do the work, and I would become famous.

For 3 days, I worked on “Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean.” Was “lard” or “greasy substances” the best word to replace fat? Neither? Perhaps “oily lumps”….. And would “devour” or “masticate” be the better substitute for eat?

I wrote, and wrote, and rewrote, but no matter how hard I tried, it just didn’t come out sounding like the old familiar nursery rhyme I remembered.

Then I tried, “Mary had a little lamb”, with even less satisfactory results. Mary had a small woolly animal seemed a bit bland.

Well, maybe some well-known Bible passages would be more my style; the twenty-third psalm, perhaps. I cleared the computer and wrote, “The Deity is my herder. I will by no means suffer insufficiency.” Oh no! Referring my Heavenly Father as a “herder” left a lot to be desired. So much for my career as a Bible translator.

I put Roget on hold for a couple of weeks before I finally discovered a place to fit him back into my life. And along with my discovery, I managed to cure the Roget malady of my writer’s group, or at least put it back into perspective.

One Tuesday, I appeared before the group with a sheaf of papers in my hand. Distributing one to each member, I instructed them to put the Roget enhanced sayings back into familiar English. Prizes were awarded to the first two finishers. (I thought of giving them new Thesauruses, but, unable to reduce myself to such cruelty, settled for M & M’s instead.)

Some examples follow. You may want to try these or others in your own group.

1. Residents of translucent silicate shelters should forbear casting consolidated masses of mineral material.

2. A carefully scrutinized metal container does not generate bubbles of vapor.

3. It is unprofitable to lament because of accidentally wasted white mammary fluid.

4. A consolidated mass in locomotion does not accumulate bryophytic plants.

5. Precede your vault with scrutiny.

We had a lot of fun with this project, but it pointed out how ridiculous the overuse of synonyms can be. True, the Thesaurus is a marvelous tool, but it is just that, a tool.

ANSWERS TO ROGETISMS

1. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
2. A watched pot never boils.
3. There is no use in crying over spilt milk.
4. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
5. Look before you leap.

Jeanne Gibson lives in Springfield, OR and writes on a variety of subjects such as marriage, divorce, kids, cats, making money from home, writing, and electric bikes. To find out more about Roget’s Thesaurus, especially in large print editions, check out her blogpost at:

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You know writing your book will be good for you–it will attract more ideal clients to you, it will make your business more visible, it will allow you to make more money, and it will get your message out to much bigger audiences. You want to write the book and you have lots of ideas, but when you sit down to do it, you just can’t seem to get anything done.

Why is it such a struggle when the desire is there? Because writing a book is such a big project that if you sit down thinking, “I’m going to write my book,” you’ll end up overwhelmed. You won’t see an easy entry point. It’s like trying to see individual trees in a vast and dense forest–the task seems so big that it’s hard to see it for its smaller pieces. But forests aren’t just one big thing; they’re a collection of many smaller things all working together.

Books are the same way. They’re not just a big idea written out; they’re many smaller ideas compiled and arranged so they communicate something larger. Books are created sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page, and chapter by chapter. When you understand this, the idea of writing a book is more manageable. Just like you’d have to plant a forest one tree at a time, you can’t write a book by sitting down to write a book-you have to break it down into smaller pieces and write them one at a time.

So where do you start? Once you understand that a book is several smaller pieces put together, you just need to figure out what your smaller pieces are. What stories are you going to use? What strategies are you going to teach? What examples are you going to give? Then when you sit down to write, you work on one of those small assignments.

You’re not writing an entire book; you’re writing an example of how your readers can apply your first strategy, or you’re writing about the importance of the third step in your system, or whatever your assignment is for that day. Only after you break the bigger task down can you truly grasp where to start and what it will take to get it done.

When you approach writing a book as many small pieces, the task is no longer overwhelming. You can sit down to write with a sense of purpose and a manageable task to complete. Then you can come back and do the same thing the next day. And before you know it, you’re no longer thinking about writing your book-it’s actually done.

Melinda Copp helps aspiring nonfiction, business, and self-help authors get clear on their story and book idea, and figure out how to put it all together so their ideal readers love it. Visit http://www.writerssherpaprograms.com/writeabook.html for a free copy of her “Jumpstart Your Book E-course!” and get your book started now.

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Many speakers and writers of English use the expression “between you and I.” People use this expression because it makes them sound more educated — or so they think. In their effort to appear sophisticated, people blithely say, “Just between you and I, company xyz will go public next week.” As difficult as it may be to believe, this expression is wrong.

We have had it pounded into us over and over that we say and write “you and I” that we use “you and I” for everything. We have to think about what we say and write or we will appear illiterate and uneducated.

Between is a Preposition

The word between is a preposition. Prepositions are words that show relationships between nouns or pronouns. Examples of prepositions include: about, above, below, beneath, in, over, and, of course, between. The noun or pronoun after a preposition is called the object of the preposition. The problem does not manifest itself when we use actual nouns. For example, no one would have any trouble with “between a rock (noun) and a hard place (noun” or “between Mary (noun) and Jill (noun).” In English, nouns in the objective case (used as objects) are not different from their subject form. But such is not the case with pronouns.

Use Objective Case Pronouns After a Preposition

After a preposition, like between, speakers and writers must use objective, not subjective, case pronouns. The following is a short list of pronouns in the subjective case and the objective case:

Subjective Case: I, We, He, She, They

Objective Case: Me, Us, Him, Her, Them

The expression “It is all about me” would not make sense if it were written “It is all about I.” Similarly, the sentence, “There is no one behind we” is non-standard and would not be accepted by any native speaker of English. Some people get confused when there are two pronouns as the object of a preposition.

Check for Correctness After Prepositions

A safe way of making sure that you are using the correct pronoun case after a proposition is to convert the two singular pronouns into one plural pronoun. What this means is that if you are not sure of whether to use “between you and I” (which is always wrong) or “between you and me” (which is the correct form), change “you and me,” which are both singular pronouns, to “we” or “us,” which are their plural equivalents.

Would you ever say, “There is nothing between we”? I did not think so. This sentence sounds totally wrong to a native speaker of English.

Would you say, “There is nothing between us”? Of course you would. This sounds natural and proper.

The pronoun us is in the objective case. So if we separate the “us” into its component parts (“you and me” or “you and me”) we know that we must use the objective case form of the singular pronouns. Therefore, we pick “between you and me.”

If nothing else, just remember: “Between you and I” is always wrong. Use “Between you and me.”

You may have additional questions about using correct English. If you do, please contact me. My name is Jose M. Blanco. I teach English composition, and I have developed worksheets to help students and teachers alike. Please visit my website, http://www.grammar-worksheets.com for additional resources and contact information.

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I know there is this odd thing in me and I want to express it. I haven’t done it good in fashion, nor drawing, nor beading, nor sewing. It was my dream to draw and sew just like any other woman. But I couldn’t do that. My hands and eyes were too weak to do such refinement.

I had so many wants, and I tried doing it. In fact, when I was younger I never played with dolls, I liked balls and running, and cutting pictures and listing words. Exploring all the words I couldn’t understand gave me excitement. Everyone in the house tells me…”Use the dictionary.” And so did I. In fact, I think the dictionary became my bestfriend.

My mother who was a teacher bought books for us, on installment, so we could have something to read and research while she worked. She was a widow. And then, those books became my prized possessions. It brought me to different lands and different people. It brought me to glass castles, the peaceful forest, and the magical world. It let me see how beautiful God’s creation was: the planets, stars, and how science worked. I have pondered how virtues were rewarded, how people struggled for goals, and how God was in everything. These illumined my enthusiasm for life and how life should be.

Ages past, in my fine arts study of writing on a scholarship (because I could not afford, and I was a housewife, of which I took all the subjects and flanked exams), we were taught to read Filipino writers. Of course, I did it and read all the foreign writers I could read from Shakespeare, Lamb, Hemingway, and everyone. And though I love my language, I dispute the barriers of my native tongue and try my own writing diction and style in a second language. Maybe, I am avoiding scars; writing in my own language would cause me dishonesty. In a sense, I don’t deem I’m better than anyone, and in my second language. I just feel so free. For as long as I can write; I’m not serious following writing dogmas, I am impatient counting syllables, and impatient selling my work just to please myself. Maybe, I want to do it slowly like cracking eggshells.

I write, because I love writing and no one can stop me. My dream is to share good reading materials, in any form.

However, I wouldn’t insist on anyone reading me though my wish is to be read. For what are books, if they rot in the shelves? This is why I write.

Rose Flores – Martinez
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