Journalism writing

In Portrait of My Father with Newspaper, Irving Sultan reads the Los Angeles Times as light pours in behind him. This carefully composed portrait reveals the artist’s father almost entirely through reflections and shadows.

To effectively tell a story, learn to write like a journalist. The same techniques writers use for Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalism in the *New York Times* can be applied to any type of writing, like a novel, academic writing, or blogging. Thinking like a journalist allows a writer to create a compelling story that hooks the reader from the first sentence.

In Emmy-winning writer-producer Erik Bork’s work as a consultant, he finds “industry access” to be the key issue aspiring screenwriters are frustrated about. But getting a literary manager to read a screenplay is not as hard as one might think. Impressing them with it, though, is another matter…

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