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Tracy Anne Northey's avatar

Fascinating, thanks for sharing and enlightening me! Keep writing! 💕

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Ellie's avatar

Thanks for sharing! I don’t recall who but another writer who spent time writing for Buzzfeed talked about having a dream about some kind of celebrity dying and then writing the listicle about her best roles before realizing it wasn’t real.

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Gill Benzion's avatar

Oh god I've written so many of those stupid listicles. I used to live in fear of celebrity deaths. 😂 Thank you for reading!

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Ellie's avatar

One funny thing is that when I ask my students to write an engaging title for whatever activity they are up to (explaining a reading or etc) some of them are fantastic at getting almost to the level of clickbait titles while others have no practice at all (these are usually science students) and it kind of turns out they expect that people will read their stuff for its inherent quality and have never thought about audience

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