Rewriting Is A Large Part Of The

Rewriting Is A Large Part Of The Whole Job. And Get Rid Of Stuff That's Not Working. Just Pare It Down Until It's A Beautiful Thing You Can Hand In.

Well, A Lead Is The Most Important Thing About The Story.

It's Not A Good Thing To Be Friends With People You're Covering. There's Just No Point In Doing It. It's Tempting, But They're Not Going To Consider You Their Friend Anyway. They Just Know That You're Somebody That Can Do Something For Them.

And You Can't Really Cover People Critically That You're Friends With.

Unless You're Doing A Feature Piece, Which Is Going To Be Longer, And You Have More Time To Get Into Stuff.