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Chapter 122: Daily Word Counts…or Not
My stock - and I now see too hasty – answer when people have asked me whether they should write a book is: can you write 1000 words a day, five days a…
Sep 22
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 121: Heaven in the Detail
Culture vulture that I am, not long ago I agreed to my wife’s suggestion that I join her in seeing an exhibition of paintings at a gallery on the swanky…
Sep 15
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 120: Celebrating Young-Writer-itis
Writers of a certain age (read: old) will from time to time look back at their work from long ago. The experience can feel like recalling the bad…
Sep 8
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Michael Shapiro
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August 2023
Chapter 119: Editing Against the Odds
When your editors say they admire an editor, your ears will tend to perk up. When that is followed by one of them saying “He’s the best I’ve worked…
Aug 18
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 118: When the Story Comes at You
Journalists wrestle – or better said, should – with how much of themselves to include in their stories. It’s understood that from the inception of those…
Aug 11
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 117: Diagram-o-rama
Do you like getting emails from friends that give you license to stop writing because you need to check this out? I do. Especially if it’s a Tweet (are…
Aug 4
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Michael Shapiro
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July 2023
Chapter 116: Essential Lessons in Book Publishing
Shortly after the death in June of the celebrated novelist Cormac McCarthy, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times that argued that success for…
Jul 28
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 115: Stuck in Between
There are lots of bad places for writers to find themselves and among the worst is what I call: in between. The term is derived from a baseball…
Jul 21
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 114: Breakthroughs
We can often pinpoint the moments that changed our lives for the better, whether their meaning was evident from the start, or in light of their…
Jul 14
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 113: Their Lives/Our Stories
Responsibility can feel like a tricky idea for journalists. Typically, we default to what our traditional practice reminds us: we owe the reader. But…
Jul 7
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Michael Shapiro
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June 2023
Chapter 112: Reporting Keeps You Young
I came home from a reporting trip the other day and immediately started driving everyone nuts. This began with my wife. I had been away for eight days…
Jun 16
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 111: The Borders We Dare to Cross
Only the rarest of journeys is transformative, of the sort that continues when we’ve stopped our strides, and that guides us thereafter like an…
Jun 9
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Diego Courchay
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