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Your Brain is Magic

March 9, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Your Brain is Magic

You must have already known about the right brain and the left brain. Like a muscle, a part that rarely used is going to sag. So, balancing these two brain is so important. For many years, Japanese people has been familiar with the term “activating midbrain”. What is that?
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Want USD 500 by Contributing to MAD?

March 2, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Want USD 500 by Contributing to MAD?

We’re actively looking to expand our pool of freelance comedy writers and there’s more opportunity to join The Usual Gang of Idiots than ever. If you have a twisted sense of humor, a peculiar way of looking at the world, or are simply eager to express your immature, strange or just plain silly side,...
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Improving Your Writing Skill with Lateral Thinking

February 23, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Improving Your Writing Skill with Lateral Thinking

This is very good methods for the writers. Random entry, provocation, challenge, and concept fan are four of lateral thinking’s techniques. Coined by Edward de Bono, the lateral thinking is concerned with the movement value of statements and ideas, for solving problems through an indirect and creative approach. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that...
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Simply How-to Write Seminar

February 15, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito

Few weeks ago, I spoke on a workshop-seminar about creative writing. Specifically I talked about general rule of writing for eye (means books), ear (means radio things), and both (means movie or TV things). I’ve explained also about genres with the actual examples, in case someone there would authoring some fiction. How to sell...
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Give that Monkey to the Publisher

January 13, 2010
By Brahmanto Anindito
Give that Monkey to the Publisher

Do you ever feel nothing you can do about your own finished draft, but you know that you need something to improve it somehow? This is not a writer’s block because you have passed the writing phase. This is editor’s block! What are you going to do now? Well, maybe it’s time to give...
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