Writing for Your Readers: Notes on the Writers Craft from The Boston Globe

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Tells how to develop new ideas, organize complicated materials, avoid cliches, improve one's writing style, and handle writer's block, and includes interviews with reporters and editors. Title Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Writer in the Newsroom Focus: Find the Tension 1. Finding the Line 2. The Qualities of a Good Story 3. The Conditions That Encourage Writing 4. Interview: David Mehegan 5. Interview: Richard Saltus Explore: Report for Surprise 6. Seeing the Obvious 7. Avoiding the Cliches of Vision 8. What to Do When You Have to Write the Same Story Again and Again and… 9. Interview: Kevin Cullen 10. Interview: Steve Kurkjian Rehearse: Write Before Writing 11. Leading with the Lead 12. Writing Lively 13. Let's Get Organized 14. Analysis of a Michael Kranish Story 15. Interview: Sally Jacobs 16. Interview: Bob Ryan Draft: Write for Surprise 17. Tricks of the Writing Trade 18. Revealing People on the Page 19. The Craft of Description 20. Fitting More News into Less Space 21. Analysis of a Tom Ashbrook Story 22. Analysis of Two David Arnold Stories 23. Interview: David Arnold 24. Interview: Renee Graham Develop: Work on What Works 25. Layering 26. Notes on Narrative 27. Analysis of a Richard Knox Story 28. Case History of a Column 29. Interview: Susan Trausch 30. Interview: Mary Sit Clarify: Represent the Reader 31. Tuning Your Voice 32. Rewriting and Editing Your Own Copy 33. Working With Editors 34. Interview: Evelynne Kramer 35. Interview: Famous Writers Living and Dead How to Keep Learning to Write Glossary Recommended Reading Index About the Author