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Headlines first?
There’s a lot to learn and know about the craft of writing well. There are the literary building blocks, or as Roy Peter Clark puts it, writing tools: things like word choice, structure, description, rhythm, transitions, details. But then there are the more technical, marketing-minded elements of the business, the stuff that separates unknown bloggers…
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Read of the Week: “Comic Book Hero”
Browsing the cover story archives of the Washington Post Magazine, I came across this gem of a story, “Comic Book Hero.” by David Rowell. The story profiles Andre Campbell, a 44-year-old legally blind would-be comic book artist. It’s not the story of how he succeeded in overcoming the odds and cracking into comic book publishing…