Monthly Archives: November 2008

Roberts' Rules of writing and reporting.

Gene Roberts’ first editor was blind but it didn’t deter him from teaching the young reporter out of the University of North Carolina one of the most valuable lessons of his long, storied career. “Make me see,” the editor of … Continue reading

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The 'nut' of the matter.

If, threatened with waterboarding, I were forced to choose the biggest writing problem I see, it would be the nut graf. It’s talked about a lot in Craft classes but I still find myself questioning students about why their stories … Continue reading

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