A Confession: Once Peter Stewart 1st told me he was working on this book, I didn't understand exactly what the book would be be like, how it would be work, and how it would be benefit journalists about the world.
But I did cognize one thing: If Peter was excited simply about it, I was excited simply about it. I've acknowledged Peter a long time. And I've acknowledged his international reputation as a broadcast journalist even as longer.
He's exceptionally accomplished.
Really smart.
Extremely nice at what he makes - which is delivering broadcast news.
In fact, let's get his "credits" out of the way now, simply in case you've detected his name but aren't sure exactly who he is....
What Is Find-A-Line?
Peter explains, "All news and headlines writers want to 'sell' a story. You need to grab the audience and do them sit up and take notice, think - or laugh. And you can do that with the use of words and the creative use of English - the most synchronic and adjustable language in the world."
Peter spent years gathering the most absorbing lines and phrases he could find - from print & broadcast news and advertising, newspaper and magazine articles, and (part of his genius, this:) from everyday speech.
And he's distilled his word detection into one massive, 323-page source book for the professional journalist. Especially for the professional broadcast journalist.
Find-A-Line is....
- The base camp from wherefrom you can kick-start your creativity.
- An ingenious, one-of-a-kind compendium.
- A Word Bank filled with fresh and innovational lines for your News copy - about 10,000 cool phrases, rhymes, puns, alliterations, handy opposites, coupled phrases, and word plays designed to grab your audience's attention from Word One.
- A Cliché Crusher.
