1. Innovative Writing Techniques
How to keep your audience
breathless

2. Lesson 1: Ball Gagging

3. Writing is tough.
I call BS! .
Attention
whore!
You just want I’m
traffic to your offended.
cave.

4. The Key: Engage
You inspire . I’m going to
me! re-draw this to
all my
followers
I “liked” this on
Facecave
Will you be the
keynote drawer at
our conference?

5. Our goal today: to give you cave octopi
You can’t
even spell me.
I am that
awesome.

6. Your Hosts

7. What’s my motivation?
• Why am I doing this?
• What makes you sit down and start typing?
• Amy: photography and images

8. What’s my motivation?
• Leslie: Prompted writing
• Jim: being called out It’s been so
long since I
I’m really happy for last post---
you, Imma let you
finish, but BusyDad
is the greatest blog
procrastinator of all
time!

9. How do I start?
Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages
exercise.

10. How do I start?
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and the
concept of the “Shitty First Draft”
- THE BIBLE of writing, according to
Leslie

11. How do I start?
Everything starts out as a “Shitty First Draft” – according to Jim, who has
no proof to back up that statement.
“And now,” cried Max, “let’s turn this mutha out!”

12. But my life is uninteresting
• Photoshop

13. “Photoshop makes your wildest dreams come true.”

14. But my life is uninteresting
• The Blog-Given right to embellish
No
Yes

15. You can make anything engaging

16. Make lists

17. Write an
opinion piece

18. Tie it into the most watched viral
video of the year

19. Tie it into current events
“I was going to let
it go when the
quick brown fox
jumped over
the lazy dog,
look at what
happens when
we do…”

20. Get scientific on it

21. Get poetic on it

22. Tap into your community

23. Dare to be…
You.