Recommended reading for April 9, 2010
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Hoffer and other examples of great writing discovered during the week ending April 9, 2010.
Recommended reading for April 3, 2010
To do good writing, read good writing. Recommended reading for April 3, 2010: Margaret Atwood, Susan Orlean and more.
Recommended reading for March 12, 2010 – National Magazine Awards finalists
To see great writing, look no further than the 2010 National Magazine Awards finalists. Here’s a list of finalists in all the writing categories.
Guest post: Up close and personal, writing first-person profiles
Guest poster Pat Olsen discusses first-person profiles, stories written in first rather than third person, as if the writer is the person they’re writing about.
Recommended reading for March 5, 2010
Roger Ebert, Stephen King and other recommended reading for writers, for the week ending March 5, 2010.
Recommended reading for Feb. 27, 2010
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Weber, Seth Godin and other recommended reading for the week ending Feb. 27, 2010.
Recommended reading for Feb. 19, 2010
To do great writing, read great writing. Here’s some great writing I’ve been reading during the week of Feb. 15-19, 2010.
Going for the gold: how to train like an Olympian
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent at least part of the last five days watching the 2010 Winter Olympics and wondering how it’s possible for the human body to spin, flip, fly or move so fast. Olympic athletes aren’t born doing those things. With the rare exception, it takes years, maybe even decades, to [...]
Back to basics: the nut graph
The first post in a WordCount occasional series on writing basics looks at the nut graph, the little paragraph with the big impact.
Are you a freelancer writer or journalist entrepreneur?
Shakespeare said a rose by any other any other name would smell as sweet. But did Shakespeare call himself a freelance writer or a poet? A hired pen, or a playwright? Not offense Shakespeare, but words matter. Today what writers call themselves matters more than ever because it sets the tone for how we perceive [...]
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