Follow these tips for pitching, reporting and writing articles – taken directly from editors – and you’ll have publications clamoring to work with you.
Back to basics: the nut graph
WordCount’s occasional series on writing basics looks at the nut graph, the little paragraph with the big impact.
Too pooped to post
Lately, I’ve been so busy with my editing day job the only thing related to this blog I’ve been doing is thinking. I’m too pooped to post.
Why good writing is all about context
More and more these days, good writing is all about context. When news cycles are measured in minutes or hours rather than days, unless you’re the one doing those news stories, your work as a writer is putting what’s happening into context. That’s especially the case for many bloggers, whose raison d’etre is commenting on […]