3 ways to get good at getting the goods
You’ve heard the phrase “hog in, sausage out.”
To get good at getting the goods, conduct three kinds of research:
interview
Try Ann Wylie’s Metaphor Generator
Take these 4 steps to creating an analogy
Sometimes you’ll find a metaphor in an interview. Other times, it’s up to you to create one yourself.… Read the full article
How to interview a person for an article
‘Get the name of the dog’ and other ways to get creative material
I still remember — more than a decade later — one of the thousand heartbreaking stories about Hurricane Katrina victims, an AP report about the Superdome evacuation:
Many people had dogs, and they could not take them on the bus.
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How to find the aha! moment and other tools
Call it an aha! moment:
Alone in his laboratory on a snowy evening the week before Christmas, Dr.
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