Search results for “roy peter clark” Showing 96 results Getting out of your head ~ and out of the way of a true story By Dale KeigerIf you write for a living and stay with it long enough you will accumulate a bulging folder of journeyman’s work. You don’t renounce it and you don’t… April 6, 2023 Compression: It’s not just for socks Ads on radio and news sites here in Seattle are promoting “Potted Potter,” a romp of a stage play that retells all seven Harry Potter books — more than 4,000… December 22, 2022 How the WriterL came to be: The origin story of a narrative community EDITOR’S NOTE: “A Place Called WriterL” is a new collection of some of the listserv discussions about narrative journalism held in the late 1990s through the early 2010s. In a… November 4, 2022 WriterL, the book: A “greatest hits” collection of narrative discussions EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of two essays about the new book “A Place Called Writer L,” a collection of listserv discussions from the 1990s and 2000s. Tomorrow, co-editor Stuart… November 3, 2022 How narratives defined a Queen and a Queen changed a narrative The Queen is dead. Long live the King.OK, that may be the most predictable line I’ve ever written, but a version of it has been working for the Brits for,… September 13, 2022 Francis X. Clines: The consummate newspaper journalist Every afternoon when I was a kid, the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press Gazette landed in the driveway of our house. Actually, squinting back, I think it got tucked between the… July 19, 2022 A tribute to the consummate reporter/writer: Francis X. Clines EDITOR’S NOTE: This tribute is shared with permission from our friends at The Poynter Institute.Frank Clines arrived at The New York Times in 1958, one year before the death of… July 14, 2022 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 The multiplier effect of one good teacher You know those pin-dot graphics that the data dudes produce that show how things are both clustered and connected? Things like who uses Twitter, or COVID rates in red- and… December 14, 2021 Literary Forensics: How to edit (and self-edit) from the inside out Here is a self-editing origin story:I was back from my first truly big reporting assignment, which was to cover the 1984-85 famine in the sub-Sahara. I was exhausted, emotional about… October 15, 2021 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
