News and headline writers want to sell a story. Advertisers want to sell a product.
This volume is now available to buy.
This is your own tool box of lines to open up when inspiration runs dry and you
It's a word-bank of fresh and original lines for news scripts, headline writers,
It's the book which'll assign well-worn words and phased-out phrases to the cliché crusher!
It's the base-camp from where you can kick-start your creativity.
Find-A-Line 2007 Edition OUT NOW!
There are nearly 10,000 phrases in around 2,000 categories.
Some of the are puns, many of them rather clever ones: about footwear: 'a womans right to shoes', about summer shirts: 'the right to bare arms'
Others are rhymes: 'noise annoys', 'a sex swap op'.
Some are alliterative, such as this entry under cancer, 'moles, melanomas and malignancies', or 'the great, the good and the gruesome'.
While some more are just cool phrases, such as the line 'roll up, roll up' to preface a story on wallpaper, or the suggested phrase about murder squad detectives who 'stay at the scene until they find something or are convinced theres nothing to be found'. Or the description of The Archers radio programme as 'the village people'.
Others are handy opposites: 'city slickers or city slackers', 'needy or greedy', or 'the best in the world - or out of this world?'
And there's a further collection of phrases simply linked with certain subjects, 'doctor's bedside manner' under health, or 'red carpet treatment' under the entry for fame, or describing a hotel as 'like something out of Fawlty Towers'.
"Find-A-Line is brilliant in its simplicity."
Dan O'Day
U.S Radio Consultant
There are lines for 70 different kinds of animals, 25 categories for parts of the body, 75 lines for Christmas and nearly 300 describing the weather -- and these aren't just stock phrases such as 'wet', 'sunny', 'cloudy' but ones such as 'get set to get wet', 'scorcher torture', 'a shroud of cloud'.
There are other major categories for travel and transport, sport, names, countries, shops, money, parts of the body, music...
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