Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1124 results About a bear: The story behind the story of “The Loneliest Polar Bear” “The Loneliest Polar Bear” wasn’t just a heart-tugging news story. It was a suspenseful, multi-thousand word saga about an abandoned newborn polar bear. It was rationed into five chapters that… April 19, 2019 Avoiding false judgments in journalism about Trump’s evangelical supporters Ever since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in the summer of 2015, I have grown accustomed to the constant drumbeat of stories that pose the same question: How can… April 12, 2019 Probing dark corners and dark souls The risks and rewards of covering society's monsters: Insights from the 2019 Power of Narrative conference April 5, 2019 Ripping up the narrative arc and fumbling your way to structure 2019 Power of Narrative: Dave Cullen on how he wove time and perspectives to tell a fuller story of the Columbine High School shootings April 4, 2019 Golden nuggets from the rich river of narrative nonfiction Big Ideas from small sessions at the 2019 Power of Narrative Conference March 28, 2019 Grounding apocalyptic issues in reality without losing hope Q&A with Washington Post writer Dan Zak about his daring and emotional query about climate change, and finding some calm in the controversy March 21, 2019 “She stares at me, but it feels like she’s looking at who I used to be, her little girl with ponytails and a snaggletooth who swore she was a Powerpuff Girl.” This sentence contains everything that good narrative writing should. There’s the specific detail of the narrator, and there’s universality — the wonder we humans experience when faced with a child… March 20, 2019 Wired’s executive editor seeks stories that reveal all faces of technology Rejections aren't personal: “70 percent of why pitches don't work has nothing to do with the writer” March 5, 2019 Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through… February 28, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 Previous 1 … 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 … 113 Next
