Story Craft Cutting through numbing numbers with electrified writing For many Americans, COVID news has joined the thrum of everyday life. But Charles Pierce warned readers in a recent newsletter the crisis shouldn’t be allowed to be part of… October 1, 2021 Trevor Pyle How listening to foreign languages can enrich your writing An author and essayist listens to stories in in their native tongues to hear new rhythms, phrasing and metaphor September 17, 2021 Shoba Narayan A 9/11 survival story: Honoring accuracy and voice in eyewitness accounts Writing scholar Roy Peter Clark reprises a cousin's escape story, and finds lessons for writers who help people recount personal stories September 9, 2021 Roy Peter Clark From Sept. 11 to COVID: Using the personal to write the global How do you write about a shared event that changes the world, but that we each experience personally? And how do you then share that personal experience back to the… September 8, 2021 Shoba Narayan A panoramic approach to a book about the Sept. 11 boat lift In “The Art of Description: World into Word,” Mark Doty writes that Proust endeavored to “dilate the sentence toward its outer limit, so that one would feel the blur of… September 7, 2021 Jessica DuLong Pitching ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network: Focus on sources and impact "Why does this story need to be told here, in this community? And why does this story need to be told now?" says ProPublica’s managing editor for local August 17, 2021 Carly Stern #6 rule of pitching: Stay focused A good pitch is not a scattershot, but a clearly stated central idea or question that is fresh, relevant, and a fit for the publication July 8, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Sage writing advice from the editor of Column One Steve Padilla of the Los Angeles Times urges writers to tune up their writing with song June 9, 2021 Madeline Bodin #5 rule of pitching: Make it sparkle Don't lose an interesting idea in a boring pitch May 28, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski How narrative moments can elevate a non-narrative story Little gems of character, dialogue, description and scene make a complex explanatory piece more compelling May 11, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 … 39 Next
