What else would you call an assignment that required an 800-word narrative, worthy of the front page, that had to be completed in a day's work?
Nell Lake, editor of the Nieman Narrative Digest, a must-visit site for anyone interested in narrative writing, gave me the opportunity this month to revisit my past as a deadline storyteller and share the lessons of those days.
It also enabled me to dip into my clip files for two of my favorite deadline stories, "From Jon to Lani: The Gift of Life" and "It wasn't a trap."
The bottom line: "A full-bodied narrative may be out of reach on deadline, but not the individual skills and, more important, the habits and narrative judgment that make narratives possible."
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Thanks for the link to this Chip. Great stuff on it. I have to admit I especially liked the AP blog from Turkey, by Benjamin Harvey. Excellent, spare, blogalicious writing. And he's only a kid. Sigh.
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