If you’re reading this, then you probably love stories. Reading them, watching them, living inside them. Best of all, writing them. Continue reading “Story Time”
The Opening
Recently, while out with a writer friend, I asked what she’d been up to lately. “Today I finally found the lede for the story I’m working on,” she said. She paused a moment. “Isn’t that the best feeling? When you find your lede?”
For those of you not familiar with “lede,” it’s a word some nonfiction writers use for a story’s beginning. And yes, when you find your story’s beginning, the true, right beginning, it’s an exhilarating moment, indeed. Continue reading “The Opening”
Stories. Everywhere.
From our 14th-floor conference room window in midtown Manhattan, I looked down to see about twenty people frantically trying to lift a black SUV. Continue reading “Stories. Everywhere.”