Thoughts on notes, changes, revisions and rewrites
I take a lot of pride in my work. I consider every word and give every job, regardless of size, my best effort. But copy is not written in stone and sometimes changes are needed to satisfy a client. Which is fine. After all, I’m not writing for myself, I’m writing for them. It’s their dime.
Happily, changes are an infrequent...
As a freelance writer whose work often involves telling stories about people, I think about Charles Kuralt a lot. For those who don’t remember him, Kuralt was a correspondent for CBS. He traveled the country’s back roads with a small crew in a motor home talking to people: a sharecropper who sent nine children to college, a man who collected twine, a fellow who stood on a corner waving to...
"Do real stories about real people." That, according to writer David Chesnick, is one of the best ways to cut through the clutter and make a real connection with your communities of interest.
