Breaking the Rules

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The Unexpected Audience (Ep. 11)
What I'm learning from listening to Feynman's physics lectures
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The Story So Far (Mid-Season* Review)
Are you back from your holidays? Catch up with what you've missed
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Broken Rules (Ep. 10)
Let's not lose sight of why it's good to break the rules—sometimes
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Frame It • Part 2 (Ep. 9)
Why and when to use story-framing.
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The Rhythm of Your Words (Ep. 8)
Can you control your audience's pace and rhythm when they read your article?
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A Near-Perfect Picture (Ep. 7)
Sampling theory for technical article-writing • Conceptual resolution
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The Wrong Picture (Ep. 6)
How I messed up • When an analogy doesn't work
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The Broom and the Door Frame (Ep. 5)
How the brain deals with stories
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Mystery in the Manor (Ep. 4)
The best story is the one narrated by the technical detail itself
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Frame It (Ep. 3)
You can't replace the technical content with a story. But you can frame it within a story.
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Whizzing Through Wormholes (Ep. 2)
Travelling to the other end of the universe—with the help of analogies
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Sharing Cupcakes (Ep. 1)
Linking abstract concepts to a narrative • Our brain works in funny ways
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Breaking the Rules
Breaking the Rules
A story about telling stories in technical writing. This substack is about my journey exploring Narrative Technical Writing. It's about breaking the traditional rules and borrowing techniques from storytelling to make compelling technical articles
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