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2) Find every article you can on it
Go on the net, go through newspapers, cut them out. Find the newspaper that has
the most details on your subject rather than the paper you prefer reading (even if
you have to explain to your friends why you’re reading it!)
3) Read everything you find on your subject at least twice
Read  it  once  for  content  and  then  several  times  to  study  every  connotation  of
each sentence. Then:
• Highlight interesting words, phrases
with your highlighter pen.
• Highlight words you might be able
to do a redefinition on.
• Highlight anything you have an
emotional reaction to.
You  are  looking  for  anything  that  takes  you  away  from  the  main  subject  and
gives your mind something to work with and your brain something to play off.
Your  article  should  now  be  dotted  with  colour  like  a  mad  mosaic,  inconsistent
but very pretty.
Read the articles again, looking only at what you have highlighted.
Ask yourself why they are interesting, and try to add detail. Play off words. Even

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do a mini joke-web on the words and phrases if possible. Remember how long
you  thought  about  the  examples  I  gave  out  earlier  before  you  found  the  gag.
Give these lines the same amount of thought. Have a break from it. Go back to
it. Give your background processing brain a chance to work.

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