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Science Writing with Ceridwen Dovey
Welcome
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher: Ceridwen Dovey (2:47)
Part One: Catching Ideas Like Butterflies—and how to write The Perfect Pitch
Ideas and How to Catch Them (1:54)
Curiosity and Collecting
Finding “The One”
Exercise: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
The Way In
Essay Idea Examples
Exercise: Culling, Digging Down and Finding a Way In
Case Study: The way in for me when writing Everlasting Free Fall
Read Everlasting Free Fall
Exercise: Survival of the Fittest—Getting Your Top Three Ideas Down to Just One
The Perfect Pitch (0:57)
Where to Pitch
Tips for pitching
After publication
Sample Pitch—the Spacecraft Cemetery at Point Nemo
Exercise: Crafting your pitch
Part Two: The Research Phase—Throwing your mind wide open
Choosing a form—and giving yourself permission to write outside the box
Exercise: Finding Your Form
Interviews with Experts (1:16)
Where do the experts live?
Getting comfortable with feeling like a fool
Research Ground Rules
Exercise: Identifying Your Analogue Resources
Getting lost in the woods (1:19)
Part Three: The Writing Phase
Recognising the research warning signs…when enough is enough!
Bum on Chair
Trust that You Know Enough—and Make It Fun
Trust Your Instincts
Exercise: Find Your Fun and Start that First Draft
Case Study: Finding my Fun in Drafting “Everlasting Free Fall”
Listen to your material…and your editor
Welcoming your readers into the conversation (1:19)
Letting the Scaffolding Go
Exercise: Goodbye, Scaffolding
Fact checking and protecting yourself
Conclusion
May the science writing force be with you! (1:44)
Thank you and good luck in your science writing journey!
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Trust that You Know Enough—and Make It Fun
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