{"id":1154,"date":"2016-10-19T22:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2016-10-19T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:45:01","slug":"clarks-writing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/clarks-writing-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark&#8217;s Writing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a few of the Sunday Long Read, I found the Deadspin article <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/i-covered-the-braves-for-a-newspaper-that-didnt-exist-1787407685\">I Covered the Braves for a Newspaper that didn&#8217;t Exist<\/a>. Having the Atlanta background and having been a former Braves employee I found it very interesting that this was even possible. I found it very interesting to read about how easily he was able to navigate around. Guess it just proves, confidence is key.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the curiosity of Phil Braun is one of the strongest themes within the article. This reflects Clark&#8217;s Tool 27 of Reveal traits of character. It was simply done in the way that he would notice a new opportunity and without much consideration on consequences, Braun would be off exploring the next part of the Ted.<\/p>\n<p>Clark defines this tool with the anecdotes of how to show and not tell the audience about descriptors. He uses the\u00a0anecdotes of Bethany Hamilton giving up her jacket for a homeless child. This showed compassion whereas earlier in the article the author simply said she was always a compassionate girl.<\/p>\n<p>His experiences simply told you he was curious. He had child-like wonder when touring himself around the stadium and took the experience in with passion. It was never taken advantage of, every time sounded like it was a gift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I discovered I was allowed to enter the dugout and walk the tunnel back to the clubhouse. In the tunnel, I happened upon Chris Berman chatting with Javy Lopez about a recent injury the catcher had suffered. I pretended to rummage through my camera bag just so I could listen in for a few moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I first read the Sunday Long Read that Lil&#8217; Wayne wrote and while comical and extremely confusing, I decided that was not an actual piece of journalism that warranted analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a few of the Sunday Long Read, I found the Deadspin article I Covered the Braves for a Newspaper that didn&#8217;t Exist. Having the Atlanta background and having been a former Braves employee I found it very interesting that this was even possible. I found it very interesting to read about how easily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/clarks-writing-tools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clark&#8217;s Writing Tools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-7","category-morgan","tag-structure-advice"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MY21-iC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1159,"url":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/clark-and-instagram\/","url_meta":{"origin":1154,"position":0},"title":"Clark and Instagram","author":"nicolech","date":"October 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided to go out on a limb and click 'random article', because why not? 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