48 Tips

If you didn't look before, swing by Pat Walters' blog citing 48 tips from the Harford National Writers Workshop. Lots of useful stuff (you can nearly feel Pat sweating), including a sweet snippet from Dan Barry: "I think people read newspapers, for reasons not to read the story. ... So our challenge is to grab them through the paper and say -- 'Read this.' ... I work extremely hard on my leads. That's my shot."