Getting inspiration from the news The news News stories can be a fantastic source of inspiration. Remember the phrase, ‘ripped from the headlines‘? So while it has become a TV trope all its own, current events can really inspire. Because you just can’t make this stuff up. International Events In particular, when writing about an alien […]
Brian Williams and the Gaffe Heard ‘Round the World On February 4, 2015, Brian Williams went on NBC Nightly News in order to apologize for falsely claiming that he was in a helicopter in Iraq in 2004 which took RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) fire. Motivation Williams’s apology focused on not just the gaffe, but also on […]
I had wanted so much to avoid tweeting or blogging or otherwise amplifying the signal around the Gaza situation. But this assignment more or less forced my hand.