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'Diagraming the structure of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (otherwise known as "the reason the book took eleven years to write" ... Well, one of them anyways). Workshop for @[202609859755216:274:Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA)] Photo credit Amy Maxmen #HeLa'
'Clearly having too much fun mapping the story structure of John McPhee's "Travels in Georgia" for a @[202609859755216:274:Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA)] workshop (photo credit: Kathryn Jepsen) #Journalism #Writing #ScienceWriting'
'Drew this on the board in my #NarrativeJournalism class at UC Berkeley today: my (not to scale) depiction of Hemingway's Iceberg Principle of reporting and writing (also known as The Theory of Omission): Readers only see the tip of the iceberg in any story, not the mass of research beneath the surface that actually makes it an iceberg. All that reporting we leave out of stories is essential, without it, the story would ... Sink? Well, no ... Technically, if it's ice it wouldn't sink, because ice floats, but it would just float around, going wherever the water takes it ... More like an ice cube than an iceberg. And who wants to write a story that's just an ice cube. The point: For students, learning what to leave out is one of the hardest lessons. #RevisingIsHard #KillYourDarlings #Writing #Narrative #Journalism #UCBerkeley #CalJournalism'
'Here's something you don't hear everyday: I found this blind chicken on the side of the road in Berkeley yesterday (actually, more accurately, my dog found it). It is seemingly healthy, other than the fact that it has no eyes. (And it's not like it just lost its eyes recently -- they're scarred over and seem to have been that way for a while). Various animal control offices refused to pick it up, claiming it wasn't in their jurisdiction, so I brought it home. Coincidentally, one of my students is working on a story about a chicken sanctuary, which is where the chicken is now. So, um ... If you know anyone who lost an eyeless chicken, do let me know. In related news, this is not the first time I (by which I mean my dog) found stray chickens this year ... the first it was a group of three walking down a city street in Chicago. UPDATE: The blind chicken may in fact be able to see ... turns out she has a nasty infection that sealed her eyes closed. She's now being treated with antibiotics, and I hope the sanctuary folks name her Grace ... (I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see ...).'
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