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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:35:43 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>feature writing tips</title><subtitle>feature writing tips</subtitle><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-07-06T10:09:34Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Tutorial VI: Story Types</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-vi-story-types.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-vi-story-types.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T14:16:06Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T14:16:06Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Now that you have all the tools to write your feature story, you need to decide what kind of story you're going to write.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tutorial V: Conclusion</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-v-conclusion.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-v-conclusion.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T14:05:53Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T14:05:53Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[In feature writing, leads get most of the attention, but endings are equally, if not more, important.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tutorial IV: Main Body (Blocks)</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-iv-main-body-blocks.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-iv-main-body-blocks.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T14:00:17Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T14:00:17Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[With the Nut Graph sorted out, I'd like to now share with you another aspect of the Blundell Technique. And this has to do with the blocks that he uses to organize materials for his feature stories.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tutorial III: Nut Graph</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-iii-nut-graph.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-iii-nut-graph.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T13:42:01Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T13:42:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The relationship between the lead and the Nut Graph can be thought of in this way: The intro highlights an individual case. The Nut Graph, meanwhile, illustrates how that individual case is actually representative of a bigger trend or how it fits into a bigger overall picture.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tutorial II: The Lead</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-ii-the-lead.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-ii-the-lead.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T13:34:46Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T13:34:46Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[When journalists talk about the beginning of a story the word they use is “the lead”.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tutorial I: The Blundell Technique</title><id>http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-i-the-blundell-technique.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/guide-to-feature-writing/2005/7/9/tutorial-i-the-blundell-technique.html"/><author><name>Oon Yeoh</name></author><published>2005-07-09T13:18:43Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T13:18:43Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[My first attempt at feature writing, nearly a decade ago, was a total mess.]]></summary></entry></feed>