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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.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 112: Reporting Keeps You Young
I came home from a reporting trip the other day and immediately started driving everyone nuts.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 99: Earworms
My students are poised to start writing.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 100: Fear, Itself
I started this newsletter one hundred chapters ago when I discovered after decades of writing that it was possible to find joy in the work.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 98: A (Writing) Life After the Law
Years ago my wife had a colleague who left a very good job at The New York Times for Wall Street, which had been his beat.
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 139: Death of a Writer
We were driving down the roads of childhood, though it was now I who cradled him under my arm.
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 124: Maybe One Day I Can Do That
A writer friend and I were talking about Ernest Hemingway.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 110: Getting Personal. Or Not.
I was researching my book when, the other day, I recalled a story that I had written almost forty years ago and I thought might be useful, if I could…
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 92: Book Proposal Agony
I have never been a good book proposal writer.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 86: Consider the Nut Graph
With apologies to Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a true story in possession of ambition must be in want of a nut graph.
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 128: Telling the Hardest Story of All
Much as I have written about the power that comes from a story that a writer needs to tell, there are stories that many writers, though steeped in a…
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Michael Shapiro
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…
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Michael Shapiro
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