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Kurt Vonnegut instructed creative writers to,“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” In fiction, this became aliterally technique in unraveling plots:
In One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade told her story to her murderous husband and king to spare her life.
In The Great GatsbybyF. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway was telling the story of mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, to his psychiatrist.
In The Perks of Being a Wall Flower, 15-year-old Charlie writes to a stranger about his high school life to cope with the suicide of his friend.
Focused writing is also applicable to other forms of writing, like copy and essay.Not as a narration technique, but more of a process. The Brain in Writing In a study led by Dr. Martin Lotze of the University of Greifswald in Germany using MRI scanners, the researchers found that the areas of the brain of experienced writers that deals with speech becomes more active during writing. The scientists interpret it as perhaps that the writers are narrating their story using an inner voice. Another brain region that is active during the writing process is called the caudate nucleus. This region is associated to expertise, both in the training and the performing process.
The Power of Concentration Writing for one person and effective writing leads to the subject of concentration. Focusing on a task is a lot like focusing a vision in a top-down process. When the brain is concentrating, the brain first takes in all the visual information and starts to process the information. The mind is distracted when several stimuli try to barge in. Likewise, writers get out of focused when they think of how to please different people with different personalities. When a writer is addressing just one specific person, the word choice and narration tends to be linear. The writer tends to give a chronological and one-way narration that has a beginning, middle and end. He also tries to eliminate information that would not serve to clarify his narration to his one audience. There is clear-cut focus. To write effectively is to be clear. In the end, an article is only consumed by one reader at a time and the writer has to content himself with that.
Resources: http://www.paypercontent.net/ https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/tipsmasters/kurt-vonnegut-8-basics-of-creativewriting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/science/ researching-the-brain-of-writers.html?_r=0
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