Campfire Journalism » columnist http://markberkeygerard.com Notes on Teaching Digital Storytelling Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:38:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Not How to Write, But Why http://markberkeygerard.com/2009/06/not-how-to-write-but-why/ http://markberkeygerard.com/2009/06/not-how-to-write-but-why/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:25:24 +0000 admin http://markberkeygerard.com/?p=194 Continue reading →
]]> I’m finally reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. I’ll see the movie when I’m done with the book. On p. 51, Lopez comments about his process of becoming a columnist:

I struggled with my first columns [at the Oakland Tribune], just as I did after moving on to the San Jose Mercury News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was in Philadelphia in the mid-1980s that I had an epiphany. The challenge isn’t to figure out how to write, I realized, but why. Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren’t worth reading.

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