Here’s a small exercise. Write down your top 3 writing dreams. Mine are: 1. Write for my Big 5 (The New Yorker, National Geographic, TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek). 2. Have a book reach the top of the New York Times best-seller list. 3. Win the Booker prize. Or the Pulitzer. Either will do. […]

A little less than a year ago, I was working on a very important story for a very important magazine. The piece had involved some travel, and by the time the deadline arrived, my photographer and I were already behind schedule, had been through one major rewrite, and knew that this was possibly our last […]

Phew. That was a long break from blogging. It was also a long break from pretty much everything that’s familiar in life. After almost fifteen deadlines in the past month, I would have felt drained and completely off work, if I hadn’t been looking forward to the next leg of my journey as a writer. […]

Two emails I received recently: “… I’m 16, but please don’t be turned off by my age… pretty sure my age will be a disadvantage in trying to get jobs, but I’m not planning on letting anyone know how old I am unless they ask.” “I am 18 years of age and have just passed […]