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  • Amazon

  • Not what you want to write, but what readers want to read.

  • After doing the writing method with sticky notes, align them and then proceed with writing

  • Features a set of questions that can be used as a template for conducting the write-out method

    • In other words, it is one of the methodologies to promote language through templates such as Lean Canvas.
  • 1: What do you hope to accomplish through writing?

  • 2: What do people say when they are excited to read your writing? (Imagine the lines)

  • 3: What positive feeling is the person saying the line 2?

  • 4: What action do you want that person to take as a result of 3’s feelings?

  • 5: What words did you say to him that made him feel 3?

  • 6: What negative feelings are the exact opposite of 3?

  • 7: What would someone with 6 feelings say? (Imagine the lines)

  • 8: What is the background that is creating this negative feeling?

  • 9: What words would you say to embrace that negative state?

  • 10: In a word, what is the theme of this text?

    • empathic writing
    • A methodology for creating texts that are likely to evoke empathy in the reader by assuming a positive persona and a negative persona in writing.
  • Writing is a Vague and large tasks, so it is useful to make it small with a time-box of “6 minutes”.


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