Steve Padilla, editor of the Los Angeles Times showcase feature Column One, once again partnered with the National Press Club Journalism Institute to guide journalists out of writing ruts with sentence-level, achievable techniques to invigorate their writing. Padilla shared advice over lunch at the National Press Club on Aug. 2. Designed for professional nonfiction writers, Padilla’s talk provided fresh ways to:
- Trim and squeeze your copy
- Craft descriptions
- Construct anecdotes
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