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July 8, 2002

Bill Hatch probes the symbiotic relationship between music and writing I was trading messages with a ...

June 24, 2002

NYT vs. LAT on Supreme Court execution case offers lessons in sequencing and sidebars I'd like ...

May 13, 2002

What happened to that annual promise to stop doing obligatory stories and start doing pieces ...

February 25, 2002

Six strategies to put a higher proportion of your reporting into your stories The best way ...

February 4, 2002

Shaky on percentages? Ratios? Rates? Averages? Take Jack Robinson's refresher course I can remember it as ...

January 28, 2002

Your final self-edit should hurt. If it doesn't, you need to do one more. The writers ...

May 14, 2001

How one masterful feature writer psyches himself for battle Well-crafted disaster stories remind us how exhaustive ...

May 7, 2001

Why those final cuts you make (or are too vain to make) make such a ...

April 30, 2001

Serious about getting better? Pick one technique from our list and work on it--every stinking ...