Story Craft What stacking wood can teach us about structuring stories Author and wood-splitter Kim Cross tackles a mountain of firewood, which helps her work through the mountainous first draft of a story September 7, 2022 Kim Cross Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie An author and freelancer contemplates story craft as she tames and harvests the blackberry brambles on her land August 25, 2022 Lauren Kessler Not just SayWhat, but SezWho? For a time in the early 1990s, I wrote narrative journalism for a business magazine. One of my better efforts recounted the fight for control of an investment bank. Someone… August 12, 2022 Dale Keiger Yardscaping your way to a story A writer has a flagstone path built at her cabin, and watches the story process in action, one stone (word, paragraph, scene) at a time August 3, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer Maybe not 99, but at least a few dozen bottles of beer are along the wall. We take one down, pass it around, make sure the barcode on the bottle… July 15, 2022 Charles Scudder So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder July 6, 2022 Mallary Tenore Tarpley A podcast focused on diversity practices what it preaches When I asked Saadia Khan whether or not she identifies as a journalist, she said no. Her definition of a journalist: “someone with a degree in journalism or has worked… July 1, 2022 Kristen Chin 2022 Power of Narrative: The matrix of editor, reporter and story How a longtime contributor and a top editor at The New York Times Magazine work together to create award-winning journalism May 5, 2022 Brian Foisy 2022 Power of Narrative: Expert advice on covering drug addiction EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. Read Ellen Barry on first-person narratives, Lizzie Johnson on deadline narratives and Debbie Cenziper… April 28, 2022 Samuel Thomas 2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership Editor’s note: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For other takeaways, see Ellen Barry on first-person narratives and Lizzie Johnson… April 26, 2022 Andre Salkin Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 … 38 Next
