Articles

Lower your standards. Get something down. Swallow the bile that rises in your throat when you write a first draft. Print out early. Read aloud. Apply very critical standards.

‘Your character gets to the point where something changes.’

‘Your training as journalists is a tremendous platform on which to layer or from which to develop a personal voice.’

During the conference, there would come a time each day when writers would share their narrative writings with participants who wanted to listen. And many did. The hundreds of chairs…

A photographer uses digital video ‘to capture the passion and grittiness of contemporary Cuba.’

Roughly the first 20 years of my working life I spent almost entirely as a reporter for newspapers and magazines. The last six or seven years of it I have…

Through the eyes of two journalists, the lives of Christians and Jews are explored.

A journalist adroitly chronicles the catastrophes that were Mobutu’s Congo.

‘Nearly all the stories are memorable, from the mundane to the miraculous.’

In terms of the narrative style, as a reporter and as a writer, your job is to immerse yourself in this world and then immerse your reader in it through…