Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering the craft of science writing part 6', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Ideas into Words thing fresh even unlikely and you need it live and on the hoof not in a magazine but in a lab a new product a new question or someone s fertile teeming mind. Stop reading and go hunting. Talk to scientists. In fact talk to everyone. Abandon your preconceptions about what a story should be. Such preconceptions derive from finished stories which have a certain polish and shapeliness. But now you re looking for the initial idea which will be raw not to say feral. It might be nothing more than a question. To spot a story your best clue always will be a leaping flame in your own mind that feeling of Oh yes Wow Tell me more A good idea can come from anywhere. The fertile teeming mind you seek might be your own or perhaps a neighbor s. One of my own all-time great story ideas came from the family dentist. A young writer recently told me that on the day after September 1 1 2001 his taste in music changed. I always had the car radio on a rock station he said. Then the day after the Twin Towers fell he got into the car and on came the radio blasting metal rock. I thought What is this Bleouch Now I listen to classical stations. It makes me feel more like I live in an ordered world with a know a hundred years from now people will still be listening to Mozart. I got excited. Oh Write about that That just rings so true you can t be the only one He shrugged and changed the subject uninterested in his own intriguing self-observation. He was looking for a big idea something with intellectual clout. He wanted something that would make a book. Well . . . maybe. Who knows how that idea would grow if given a chance Maybe it s just an Op Ed or maybe it s a feature or even yes a book. Is Mozart selling especially well What is it about music and the emotions Music is universal a part of all human cultures. Hmmm . Whatever interests you big or small will interest a reader. Count on it. Then make sure you are open to getting enthused. 30 First of all get .
