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One trick we love to do is practice a script in a natural space which helps you to give a natural delivery. So next time you have a presentation coming up gwt outside and go through your script - then take the memory of how relaxed you were to the presentation and it will really help to calm the nerves and help you be more natural #nature #presentationskills #mediatraining #presentertips #tips #tipsandtricks #amsterdam #tulips #spring #fresh #holland

Ho appena completato “Writing with Proper Punctuation” di Mignon Fogarty! Dai uno sguardo: https://lnkd.in/djrnCwMB .

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Just finished the course “Writing with Proper Punctuation” by Mignon Fogarty! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gH3f_gw9 #punctuation.

If you've never considered that a crab could be cute, you've obviously never seen a pom pom crab. As well as being probably the most endearing-looking crab in the ocean, they're also one of the most ingenious. See those pom poms? They're actually tiny anemones that the crabs hold onto to help them catch food and defend themselves from predators (as anemone have special stinging cells... ouchy). And if the crab loses its pom poms...? Well, first it might try to steal an anemone off another crab (rude!). Then, when both crabs have just one pom pom each (is the singular form of pom poms just... one pom?! 😂), they rip it in two. Now wait for it 'cause we're just getting to the good bit. These anemone fragments can actually regenerate themselves. So in just a few days, the crab is back where it started: the (presumably) happy owner of two perfect little pom poms. How awesome is that?! - Fin - 🦈 Hi, I'm Mel: the ocean writer. On Sundays I share some of the amazing things that blow my mind about our Blue Planet (and which make me love my work as a marine conservation copywriter). Interested in working together? Get in touch! 💙 [Image ID: Gif shows an orange pom pom crab with black and white striped legs waving two tiny white anemones in front of its face as if it's the gosh darned cutest little cheerleader you've ever seen. And is it just me or does he look like he's got a tiny little smile on his face?!] #OceanWriter #FreelanceWriter #ScienceWriter

As fall embraces us in its pumpkin-spiced grasp, you can still see many cheery native wildflowers blooming... but for how-much longer? Check out our latest blog post to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eCQrN_qi

If you've never considered that a crab could be cute, you've obviously never seen a pom pom crab. As well as being probably the most endearing-looking crab in the ocean, they're also one of the most ingenious. See those pom poms? They're actually tiny anemones that the crabs hold onto to help them catch food and defend themselves from predators (as anemone have special stinging cells... ouchy). And if the crab loses its pom poms...? Well, first it might try to steal an anemone off another crab (rude!). Then, when both crabs have just one pom pom each (is the singular form of pom poms just... one pom?! 😂), they rip it in two. Now wait for it 'cause we're just getting to the good bit. These anemone fragments can actually regenerate themselves. So in just a few days, the crab is back where it started: the (presumably) happy owner of two perfect little pom poms. How awesome is that?! - Fin - 🦈 Hi, I'm Mel: the ocean writer. On Sundays I share some of the amazing things that blow my mind about our Blue Planet (and which make me love my work as a marine conservation copywriter). Interested in working together? Get in touch! 💙 [Image ID: Gif shows an orange pom pom crab with black and white striped legs waving two tiny white anemones in front of its face as if it's the gosh darned cutest little cheerleader you've ever seen. And is it just me or does he look like he's got a tiny little smile on his face?!] #OceanWriter #FreelanceWriter #ScienceWriter

If you've never considered that a crab could be cute, you've obviously never seen a pom pom crab. As well as being probably the most endearing-looking crab in the ocean, they're also one of the most ingenious. See those pom poms? They're actually tiny anemones that the crabs hold onto to help them catch food and defend themselves from predators (as anemone have special stinging cells... ouchy). And if the crab loses its pom poms...? Well, first it might try to steal an anemone off another crab (rude!). Then, when both crabs have just one pom pom each (is the singular form of pom poms just... one pom?! 😂), they rip it in two. Now wait for it 'cause we're just getting to the good bit. These anemone fragments can actually regenerate themselves. So in just a few days, the crab is back where it started: the (presumably) happy owner of two perfect little pom poms. How awesome is that?! - Fin - 🦈 Hi, I'm Mel: the ocean writer. On Sundays I share some of the amazing things that blow my mind about our Blue Planet (and which make me love my work as a marine conservation copywriter). Interested in working together? Get in touch! 💙 [Image ID: Gif shows an orange pom pom crab with black and white striped legs waving two tiny white anemones in front of its face as if it's the gosh darned cutest little cheerleader you've ever seen. And is it just me or does he look like he's got a tiny little smile on his face?!] #OceanWriter #FreelanceWriter #ScienceWriter

For the fly fishing industry…

📚 Here's what I learned #reading Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. It's an unsung classic in his California oeuvre. 📖 Transitions are important for moving the reader through a story. This is obvious, but the easy move is to throw in a clunky-ass transition that takes the reader out of the joy of reading your work. "Consequently." "Therefore." Yikes. Pynchon writes sentences and paragraphs that seem impossible, or at least improbable, and they keep the reader's mind baked right into the rising dough of his writing. (Sorry, but, hey, this isn't a post about metaphor.) There's a transition in Vineland that has always lingered in my memory of the book. Here's the quote, no need to understand the context story if you have not yet read it: ➡️ “Chloe your dog? Oh yeah, you brought her up?” “Think she’s pregnant. Don’t know if it happened here or down south.” But they all turned out to look like their mother, and each then went on to begin a dynasty in Vineland, from among one of whose litters, picked out for the gleam in his eye, was to come Zoyd and Prairie’s dog, Desmond. By that time Zoyd had found a piece of land with a drilled well up off Vegetable Road, bought a trailer from a couple headed back to L.A., and was starting to put together a full day’s work…⬅️ All right, what happened? With incredible deftness, Pynchon just advanced us a few years into the future to progress his story. "...[the puppies] all turned out to look like their mother, and each then went on to begin a dynasty in Vineland, from among one of whose litters, picked out for the gleam in his eye, was to come Zoyd and Prairie’s dog, Desmond." It's a remarkable way to move the reader through time. Yes, the main character's name is Zoyd. ✍️ So, what's the lesson? Whether you're working on a novel manuscript or developing a brand story for a client, you can employ similar movements: the origin story of a product or a business can span weeks, months, or years. How can you cover that time frame in a simple yet engaging way? Consider Pynchon. Seriously. The dogs are a vector. What objects or symbols in your story can be reeled into the camera for a moment to allow us to grasp the passage of time? A founder's fountain pen? A partner's lucky rabbit's foot? Bringing an outside object into the story will often catch the reader's interest. "What is this?!" And your writing, if you're dialed in to your intentions, will propel them forward through time. As a reader, that is a truy joy. 🫡 If you like Vineland, might I recommend Already Dead by Denis Johnson? The two exist on the same wavelength, zapped through with weird hypnagogic northern California culture. Already Dead is not Johnson's finest (I tend to think he's best in shorter works), but it's a fun romp through Mendocino County.