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Rough Draft

Demian Farnworth delivers the essential writing advice you need to succeed online, in about four minutes a day, four days a week. If you're a pure writer, and you wonder how you'll be able to build your own online platform that actually gets seen, this show is your shortcut.

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October 21, 2015

102 The Beautiful Message Joseph Campbell Was Really Trying to Tell Us

In the last episode of Rough Draft, your host explored storytelling from a myriad of angles, culminating in a thorough vetting of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey concept.

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October 8, 2015

101 The Greatest Storytelling Guide This Side of Saturn

Marketers are agog over stories. For good reason …

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September 1, 2015

100 The Episode That Explains the Future of Rough Draft

So, we are making a few changes here at Rough Draft. Good changes. Three in fact.

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August 31, 2015

099 A Better Way to Find Big Ideas (That Make You Stand Out)

Some astronomers and philosophers make the grand, if not absurd, claim that we are ten thousand things, but one substance. Perhaps ancient stardust. Fair enough.

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August 27, 2015

098 How to Grab Great Ideas (Without Using Your Hands)

It’s funny. How we forget things. Sublime reflections and exalted ideas. Like they were never even there. But if they were so sublime and exalted, why did they not remain with us?

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August 26, 2015

097 The Problem with the ‘Hell-For-Leather’ Writing Movement

As of late, it’s fashionable to write hell for leather. In fact, there’s a hot cottage industry in the writing culture. But is it good for the writing community? Or detrimental?

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August 25, 2015

096 Why These Famous Time-Management Techniques Are Ruining Your Productivity

Most creative people will take your head off if you butt in while they are flowing. Man. That’s for good reason.

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August 24, 2015

095 Freaking Out Over the Thought of Writing a First Draft? Try Scaffolding

Your idea stretches out to the end of nowhere. One hundred words? One thousand? What’s the angle? The structure?

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August 20, 2015

094 How to Avoid Obscurity by Misusing Language

Language is software (your brain, the hardware). A form of coding. It communicates information, and ideas travel from one person to the next through language.

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August 19, 2015

093 A Creative Email Trick for Becoming a Plain Spoken Writer

Writing is weird. Unlike speaking, it’s not something we do naturally. And unless we train ourselves out of it, that weirdness renders some creative, but wooden and dense prose.

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August 18, 2015

092 Let This Stupid Machine Read Your Copy Out Loud

You know that conventional wisdom that you should read everything you write out loud? Let’s put a twist on that advice.

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August 17, 2015

091 This Free App Will Help You Write Bold and Clear Copy

So there’s this new browser app that allows you to write/drop content into a text box and click “Edit” to determine if your writing is “bold and clear.”

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August 13, 2015

090 Four Writing Lessons I Learned from This Depressing Music Project

Hey, because this is episode 90, let’s do something a little different today. Let’s talk music.

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August 12, 2015

089 The Clear-Copy Rule of Writing for the Web

“So many English teachers shoved complex sentences down my throat that now a simple sentence almost makes my skin crawl.”

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August 11, 2015

088 Three Ways Writers Must Adjust in a World Dominated by Social Media

So the job of the online copywriter is to attract attention, stoke interest, create desire, and incite action. AIDA.

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August 10, 2015

087 How This Social Media Thing Kicked Web Writing Right in the Feels

Before social media entered the stage a marketer’s job was two-fold: write a compelling landing page and drive traffic to that landing page. But the internet has changed all of that.

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August 6, 2015

086 An Elegant Story on Outsmarting Career Obsolescence

Ever meet someone who completely revamps the way you look at an issue? This is the story of how an older gentleman changed my mind about what it takes to be successful.

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August 5, 2015

085 Raise the Stakes! 13 Writing Ideas That Really Work

Never forget that the formula for writing for the web is simple: it must be clear, concise, and compelling. We’ve covered how to make it clear and concise. Let’s look at what it really takes to make it compelling.

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