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APSE member Kent Babb did a Q-and-A with Washington Post colleague Eli Salsow about great narrative writing. Its good reading. Salsow has this to say about sports writing: Sports writing is about the best way to learn how to do any kind of writing. ... I also think covering sports teaches you how to write SCENE, which is the most important thing in narrative journalism. As a sports journalist, your whole job is to watch and then to write about what you see in a way that feels fresh, new, immediate. Also, you learn to write often and write fast, which is always useful, no matter what kind of work you want to do. And you get to write about something that at least FEELS high stakes, with tension and drama — and even if those elements are sometimes a little manufactured, those are the elements that are essential to any good story. Read the full interview here: apsportseditors.org/uncategorized/qa-with-pulitzer-prize-winner-eli-saslow/
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:46:39 +0000

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