Category: Know Your Audience
Finding and Contacting a Qualified Attorney in Your Area
| March 5, 2012 | Posted by JerriCook under Know Your Audience, Structure |
For most people who are considering filing a legal claim, the process resembles a convoluted labyrinth. If you find yourself holding the short end of the stick and thinking about bringing an action in court, I’d like to applaud you for exercising your constitutional rights in the legal system. As you’re no-doubt learning, finding a qualified attorney who will listen to you is the first, and biggest, obstacle in your path. Many people just give up after a few attorneys decline to take their case. This is where I can help you. (more…)
The FOX News Hypocrisy-Judge Napolitano Joins Glenn Beck
| February 12, 2012 | Posted by JerriCook under Entertainment, Know Your Audience, Media, Political Correctness |
Remember when NPR canned Juan Williams for admitting that when he gets on a plane and sees someone in full Arab garb it makes him a little apprehensive? The talking heads over at FOX News were spinning with glee. What an untenable over-step of Juan Williams’ basic liberties. NPR was Constitutional enemy number one. How dare they fire someone because of their political views? Well, looks like the outrage, if there ever was any real outrage, is over. FOX News has canned Judge Andrew Napolitano over his Libertarian views. Freedom Watch, one of the most successful shows on FOX Business Channel, has been cancelled. So far, no outrage from FOX. Why not? Suppression of liberty is suppression of liberty no matter who does it, right? Guess not. (more…)
Two and a Half Men and the Giant Meat Balloon in the Room
| February 7, 2012 | Posted by JerriCook under Entertainment, Know Your Audience, Media |
If Chuck Lorre and his pals over at CBS think they’re ‘winning’ with god-child Ashton Kutcher as the new co-lead on Two and a Half Men, they’re more delusional than a Vatican assassin warlock. Not only is Kutcher more eye-candy than actor, the plot has thinned to the point of being drivel. It doesn’t work. Is there a writer in the house? (more…)
The Worst Writing Advice Ever
| December 14, 2010 | Posted by JerriCook under Becoming a writer, Know Your Audience, The Writing Process |
Don't let bad advice come between you and your writing.
You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it—write what you know. The oldest writing maxim known to Man is also the worst. It keeps would-be writers at bay like an angry police dog, hungry for the chase. Beginning writers are so terrified of it that they cower in fear with their eyes covered. If, however, they took a moment to look at the snarling beast that is keeping them from mastering their craft, they would see that the leash restraining it is held by an incompetent writer. The snarling beast isn’t trying to devour you, dear would-be writer. It’s trying desperately to escape the reigns that bind it to the writing elite, who want you to believe that writing what you know is good advice. Trust me when I tell you it’s not good advice, and the people who have told you it is are either incompetent or afraid of a little competition.
Here’s a better piece of advice—write what you’ve experienced. This is the essence of what writers do. We write about what we’ve done, what we’ve seen, and the people that have caused us great pain and great joy. It is our experiences that make us unique, and as country writers, we have all sorts of experiences. To illustrate my point, here’s an article I wrote for my column in The Country Today. It’s about an experience I had with a couple of kids in the garden. (more…)
Getting To The Point: An Example Of Ineffective Writing
| December 11, 2010 | Posted by JerriCook under Becoming a writer, Know Your Audience, Structure, The Writing Process |
When someone tells me that they can’t write, I cringe. Of course you can write. Barring illiteracy, anyone can write. What people really mean to say is that they don’t believe they write well enough to get published. To this, my answer is simple: just because someone is published, it doesn’t mean they can write. I’m not the only writer to make this observation: Continue Reading
Research Resources You May Have Overlooked
| December 9, 2010 | Posted by JerriCook under Becoming a writer, Know Your Audience, Resources for writers, The Writing Process |
Illustration of an anagram by George Herbert
Most of us know the routine: Wikipedia is never a source. Stick with reliable sources like news organizations, the Library of Congress, and university sources. For the most part, this is good advice. (The exceptions being most commercial “news” organizations.) However, if you’re an independent, critical thinker who values unfiltered information, you might want to consider these resources: (more…)
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