In my last post, I described the inspirational lecture William Nack shared with my feature writing class. After looking through my notes (as I attempted to take his advice and use it to become a better writer), I thought I should focus on his words of wisdom regarding poetry. Become comfortable with iambic pentameter. Reading […]
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On iambic pentameter
Posted in comm361, karinaschultheis, personalblog, studentblog on Apr 28th, 2012
My date with a legend
Posted in comm361, karinaschultheis, personalblog, studentblog on Apr 5th, 2012
This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the greatest journalistic legends in my lifetime: William Nack. The former Sports Illustrated writer and renowned author of “Secretariat” (yes, that Secretariat) came to my feature writing class and regaled us with tales of stalking his subjects across the country and meeting with […]