Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1137 results Erika Hayasaki on the reality of landing a big freelance story In the second of a two-parter, the former LA Times reporter scrutinizes the first pitch – and then the revision – that earned her a cover piece in Wired August 28, 2018 “Words. Words upon the wind. What will endure, perhaps is what I have written. If so, it is enough.” —Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks August 22, 2018 Erika Hayasaki on how to leave the newsroom and kill it as a freelancer Journalist, professor, author, mother – How does she do it all? With passion, persistence, another paycheck and perspective: "I'm not just one story." August 21, 2018 Q&A: How a letter, honesty and patience won the trust of a shamed school cop Washington Post narrative writer Eli Saslow answers an essential question: "How'd he get that guy to talk to him?" August 16, 2018 Learning to see: A landscape of ice, a blind boy’s eyes, a grizzly bear and a wall stain How writers use color to develop metaphor, meaning and emotion July 25, 2018 “She’s just telling what’s real out there that she sees.” —Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler on discovering Eudora Welty July 11, 2018 Shadows cast on the love of a game How the profile of a sweet sport led to news scoops and a dark mystery, and how the mystery drove a narrative July 3, 2018 Learning to see beyond first sight Editor’s note: We are trying out a new feature. Call it writing practice (with a nod to Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones,” where I first encountered the term). Or… June 28, 2018 “They have to do everything the men did, except backwards and with ideals.” —Amanda Hess, New York Times Critic's Notebook June 12, 2018 June 20, 2018 Feeding the world – and feeling despair A former farmer turns to writing to uncover the global crisis of farmer suicides – and plants the seeds of a response June 12, 2018 Previous 1 … 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 … 114 Next
