If you want to write shorter, or if your editor wants you to, I’ve got some tips that I’ve gathered from the best wordsmiths in the business. You can write short without sacrificing your news values or your literary sensibilities. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you can’t do it alone. Well, maybe that’s also good news.
1. Find models of short writing from every genre and medium. Let the writers of those
1. Find models of short writing from every genre and medium. Let the writers of those
2. Know from the beginning whether you’re writing a sonnet or an epic
3. Thaw out the 5 W’s and H
4. Remember the basics of storytelling
5. Turn the pyramid right side up. Or use the hourglass
6. Experiment with the forms of short writing that already exist: the headline, the tease, the photo caption, the brief, the “brite,” the notes column
7. Think of chapters, segments, vignettes, slices of life
8. Focus, focus, focus
9. Turn lumps of coal into little diamonds. Accept the challenge of transforming a routine assignment into something special: an obit, a spelling bee, a high school graduation, daylight savings time, the new phone book
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