Brian Eno for Purina cat food, 1970s.
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you will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms.
a steady stream of whatever is catching my eye at the moment. skeery is a phonetical spelling of my last name.
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just skeery
a steady stream of whatever is catching my eye at the moment. skeery is a phonetical spelling of my last name.
• tweet
• sarahscire.com
• nyt bylines
• ask me
just skeery
“
Okay, here’s my advice to you (and young journalists in general):
1. You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it’s medical school or law school.
2. When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word “prose,” or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.
3. Be prepared to do a lot of things for free. This sucks, and it’s unfair, and it gives rich kids an edge. But it’s also the reality.
4. When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
5. Also, keep the stories simple and to the point, at least at first.
6. You should have a blog and be following journalists you like on Twitter.
7. If there’s a publication you want to work for or write for, cold call the editors and/or email them. This can work.
8. By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. (In other words, if you can’t come up with a rough headline for your story idea, it’s going to be a challenge to get it published.)
9. Mainly you really have to love writing and reporting. Like it’s more important to you than anything else in your life—family, friends, social life, whatever.
10. Learn to embrace rejection as part of the gig. Keep writing/pitching/reading.
”—
Remembering celebrated reporter Michael Hastings, who was killed in a car accident on June 18, with wisdom from his Reddit AMA – a bittersweet addition to our ongoing archive of timeless advice on writing.
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Stirring letter tucked by a Chinese factory worker into Halloween decorations found in Kmart exposes China’s forced labor – but not without great risk.
must have been insane to find this
Man // Neko Case // The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
wowzers! bunches of new followers. introduce yourselves so I can follow back?
“Too many of us think [peace] is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable — that mankind is doomed — that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are man-made — therefore, they can be solved by man.”
— always inspired. JFK via NYT
“No means no if you’re drunk or if you’re sober. No means no if you’re in bed or in a dorm or on the street. No means no even if you said yes at first and you changed your mind.”
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Joe Biden speaking today about sexual violence against women.
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