Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1013 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 2023 Power of Narrative: The investigation and birth of a personal essay By Caren CheslerEssayist and poet Hillery Stone lost her 4-year-old dog not long ago. A door was opened. The dog ran out. Several people who tried to steer the dog… March 24, 2023 ‘Good versus good’ stories that unravel complex societal problems New Yorker writer Nathan Heller follows a year of change in one San Francisco high school in which there was no clear right or wrong March 10, 2023 How to free your writing with free writing Timed free writing — no stopping, no correcting, no fretting — can leapfrog mental paralysis to a "shitty" but valuable first draft February 8, 2023 A whimsical request inspired some essential writing tools Writing scholar and author Roy Peter Clark responded to a quirky (and somewhat brash) letter with a lifetime list of writing wisdom February 7, 2023 “… how the persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well.” —From the novel "Room" buy Emma Donoghue, which is written entirely in the voice and perspective of a 5-year-old boy February 1, 2023 If journalism is part of the problem, can it be part of the solution? It is not enough for stories to expose problems to societal problems; they should explore how people tackle those problems January 6, 2023 Tools and inspiration at your fingertips: The 2022 editor’s favorites As the year comes to a close, we bring you our version of the best-of lists. We started with the reader’s choice awards: the Storyboard posts that ranked in the… December 29, 2022 Social-change journalism can make “good trouble” A Vanderbilt professor wraps up his case for seven reframes of problem-centered story work with a summary of risks and rewards December 16, 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 Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 102 Next
