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Adventures in interviewing children

  • Me: What do you like about staying with your grandma?
  • 7-year-old: Well, that's not really my grandma.
  • Me: It's not?
  • 7-year-old: No, that's my mom's mom.
  • Me: Yep, that's your grandma.
  • 7-year-old: It is? Then I guess I have two or something.
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This was a comment posted on this story today. For the record, it was a blog post and, and yes, I imagined telling stories that no one else was telling - big and small, and especially small. View high resolution

This was a comment posted on this story today.

For the record, it was a blog post and, and yes, I imagined telling stories that no one else was telling - big and small, and especially small.

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Definitely the best picture I’ve taken for a story so far. I’m a proud mama. View high resolution

Definitely the best picture I’ve taken for a story so far. I’m a proud mama.

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Second to last line, last word …. what? This is why I should always go over my notes immediately after interviews, I want this quote! View high resolution

Second to last line, last word …. what?

This is why I should always go over my notes immediately after interviews, I want this quote!

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Do you plan to spend the summer in the Hamptons? Beaching it during the day? Clubbing it at night? Eating out? Window shopping? Celeb watching? Newsday, the 400,000-plus circulation newspaper on Long Island, is looking for experienced writers to blog about the Hamptons scene. (via mediabistro.com) In the words of my colleague, do school board meetings count as clubbing by night? View high resolution

Do you plan to spend the summer in the Hamptons? Beaching it during the day? Clubbing it at night? Eating out? Window shopping? Celeb watching? Newsday, the 400,000-plus circulation newspaper on Long Island, is looking for experienced writers to blog about the Hamptons scene.
(via mediabistro.com)

In the words of my colleague, do school board meetings count as clubbing by night?

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Sometimes writing feels less like invention than discovery — as if the writing was always there and the challenge was uncovering it.
— @susanorlean
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Progress

My manila envelope of a to-do list, started this morning.

Surprisingly, one story written by Sunday at 11:20-something p.m. is prettEE. Darn. Good.

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Oh the science of it all.

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