Tam Harbert

I’ve been re-reading some of my favorite books on writing. The process reinforces the technical habits that make good writing and inspires the extra effort that makes great writing. Many of the technical rules are second nature to me, thanks to the Catholic nuns at St. Patrick’s and a burly, white-bearded professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. The former made me stand for hours at a chalkboard diagramming sentences. The latter – John Bremner – was known to make tender young coeds cry by bellowing “barbarism!” over a split infinitive or improper sequence of tenses in their copy. Read the rest of this entry »

The Rodney Dangerfield of journalism – the freelance writer – is moving up in the world. Read the rest of this entry »