Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1009 results Narrative of Oregon town’s hellish wildfire experience is a lesson in deadline writing This past Labor Day, three reporters in Salem, Oregon were enjoying the holiday weekend. They’d done a good job preparing stories in advance so they wouldn’t have to scramble the… September 29, 2020 What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever When she set out from Russian port of Murmansk on a 60-foot sailboat headed to Novaya Zemlya in August 2019, journalist Andrea Pitzer had few expectations. She hoped to visit… September 10, 2020 Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks story pitches that personalize poverty "Mine your life," says managing director David Wallis; think about what you’re an expert in and share that story September 2, 2020 “Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.” —Mads Mikkelsen as TV character Hannibal Lecter June 16, 2020 Reading (Stephen King) to learn to write Now for something fun and funky, or at least distracting, but these days I’m sure we could all use fun and funky, or at least distracting. A starter’s guide to… June 3, 2020 A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning We’re all reinventing ourselves in this suddenly sideways world. So here’s my reinvention story, and the theme that goes with it: Do it for love.The micro of what I did… May 19, 2020 Where writers write when they can’t write where they like to write Two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod often writes from home. But not always, and especially not on deadline. In a recent Facebook post, he mentioned that when he is… April 29, 2020 Deadline writing when the world is in chaos, your house is imploding and kids are home from school EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay first appeared in The Cabin, a center for writers in Idaho. It is used with permission. Also, read Kim Cross’s Writer’s Survival Guide: Tips for defying… April 22, 2020 How to wed personal experience and journalistic discipline Some journalistic tenets are almost sacred, among them: The story is not about us.But sometimes, the story is. Or at least the journalist is living the same story as his… April 3, 2020 A writer channels her own life of fear to report about science and psychology Award-winning freelancer and outdoorswoman Eva Holland weaves memoir and research in her debut book "Nerve" March 31, 2020 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 101 Next
