Creativity and Feature Writing How to Get Hundreds of New Ideas Every Day [Hardcover]

Creativity and Feature Writingexplores how to generate ideas in feature writing. Using clear explanations, examples and exercises, experienced feature writer and teacher Ellie Levenson highlights how feature writers, editors and bloggers can generate ideas and how to turn these into published, paid for articles.

A variety of approaches to idea generation are explored including getting feature ideas from:

• objects, your own life and the lives of others
• the news and non-news articles, including books, leaflets, the internet and any other printed matter
• press releases, and from direct contact with charities and press officers
• new people, new places and new experiences.

The book draws on a range of tips from practicing journalists and editors and displays case studies of example features to chart ideas from conception to publication.

Part 1: How to get ideas  1. What is an idea?  2. Getting ideas from objects  3. The Lego example  4. Getting ideas from your own life and the lives of your friends and family  5. Getting ideas from the news  6. Getting ideas from other (non news) articles, including books, leaflets, the internet and any other printed matter  7. The magazine example  8. Getting ideas from people you dont know, places youve not been and things you havent done before  9. Getting ideas from press releases, and from direct contact with charities and press officers  Part 2: Youve got an idea, now what?  10. Finding a hook  11. Key components of your article  12. Pitching and writing your article  13. Ideas!