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#14a Writing With The Headlights On, Six Ways to Cover All Your Story's Bases, Jon Franklin's "Writing for Story" Stands The Test of Time

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#13 Are Writers Born or Made? How to Finish a Book, Cliché Alert, Change Your Commute

#12 The Secret of Finishing, Don't Dazzle, Communicate: An Interview with David Margolick: Avoiding typos with technology, A Stylophile's Confession

#11 How To Whittle Down Your Reporting, Fighting the Fraud Squad, Treating Every Writer As Their Own Species. A Smart Cure for Writer's Block

#9 How to Outline, Do the Writing Only You Can Do, A Writer's Life, End Writer's Block

#8 Discovery through Drafting, Leaving the Judging Till Later, The Inherent Power of Small Stories, “The Young Who Died Delivered Us”

#7 Why We Read, Why We Write, Storytelling As Sculpture,The Glazed Donut of Thinking, A Blues Playlist

#5 Embracing Revision, Turning Up, Trusting the Process, Finding Your Way Home

#4 Why Journalism Matters, The Sounds of Silence and a Dark Mirror

A memory surfaces, humble threads and the power of finishing.

Magpies, metaphors, killing your darlings and the power of details

On beginnings, the “you suck” voice, the power of story and reading aloud

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