by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 7, 2013 | Featured, Writing
Great bit of writing intelligence from one of my favorite radio writers, Nancy Updike. Save earlier drafts/make an OUTS page… As soon as I open a page to start a story, I open another page and label it ‘OUTS.’ Anything I cut from the story, I paste into the outs page....
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 15, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Macworld, Writing
I did not have a moment in high school where someone discovered that the nerdy kid with the bowl haircut could, miraculously, throw a football accurately or hit home runs or reliably plant a jump shot from outside. The closest I came to any of that was when a bunch of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 26, 2008 | Asides
It’s unnecessary for me to say anything. Just read it. The last days of David Foster Wallace | Salon Books.