"Avoid sucking black holes of negativity in your newsroom and your writing life. They will bring you down with them......"There will be some people in every newsroom who create a whirling vortex of negativity," she told her students."They spend their time and energy (and yours) complaining, criticizing, blaming and spitting bile. Avoid them at all … Continue reading Sucking Black Holes
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A Page A Day = A Book A Year
"Lately, I've been following a dictum I first heard from writing coach Donald M. Murray. "A page a day," he said, "is a book a year."As the author of more than a dozen books, Murray knew what he was talking about. A double-spaced page of prose is 250 words. Multiply that by 365 days and you could … Continue reading A Page A Day = A Book A Year
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