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4 Ways a Journalist Can Help Creative Writers
A creative writer once referred to me as a “writing scientist.” I laughed at the time. But the more I think of it, as a journalist, I am a writing scientist. My degree is a Bachelor of SCIENCE in Journalism. There is a science to being a reporter, but over the years, I’ve discovered there…
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A Miracle off 28th Ave. on Tuesday Afternoon
It started with a simple routine walk during my lunch break. Through the same neighborhood and past the same ordinary houses occupied by the same aging couples. Wearing the same workout clothes, and pounding the pavement with the same 2-year-old tennis shoes. I continued walking down my routine path this Tuesday afternoon, feeling the steady pace…
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Are You Writing in Passive Voice? 3 Ways to Know
“Mistakes were made.” Perhaps my all-time favorite politician quote, made famous by good ol’ Richard Nixon. Mistakes were made all right. Mistake number one, Nixon boy: DON’T COMMUNICATE IN PASSIVE VOICE. Passive voice is boring. It’s what we reporters call “politician talk.” It can avoid responsibility, it will hypnotize readers to sleep, and it confuses…