Exploring the art and craft of story
By Jacqui Banaszynski • May 26, 2020
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An award-winning sports reporter learns to relax his professional writing by penning personal notes on postcards
One moderately productive, relatively-sane freelancer’s approach to writing through a crisis
While much of the world has altered its pace during the coronavirus, deadline demands have not
A former Washington Post editor retrofits a journalism class at Stanford — and finds many of the best reporting tools still fit
Shop class: What we can learn about finding and focusing original enterprise stories from watching the early days of coronavirus coverage
Writing scholar Roy Peter Clark focuses his lens on "double vision" reading, and offers lessons for how writing can support that
Writing guru Roy Peter Clark shows how a single, long sentence reveals the power of an overlooked writing tool: the placement of the main clause
Shop Class: A Valentine's Day special on putting emotion into your stories
How a daily free write from the open road unlocked the door to stories
A narrative writer binges on "The West Wing" and contemplates the value of taking the reader on short detours from the primary plot
A retired newspaperman teaches to learn, and introduces the next generation the parallel pillars of effective writing: Keep it simple and clear
Shop Class: A science freelancer opens herself to the syntax of traditional Indian dance — and the possibilities of free writing
