{"id":11480,"date":"2024-09-24T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/09\/24\/writing-to-find-out-what-you-want-to-write\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:04:35","slug":"writing-to-find-out-what-you-want-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/09\/24\/writing-to-find-out-what-you-want-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing to find out what you want to write"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Last Friday, my penultimate Friday newsletter as editor of Storyboard invited you to consider whether you\u2019re&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fniemanstoryboard.us9.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5776bbdcabe9b960b10ae1302%26id%3D3381bb792b%26e%3Df8c051ce24&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cbanaszynskij%40missouri.edu%7Cc3345bc1f97843bf10d208dcd99ebacc%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638624524671615207%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hZ8ltzCs2DYq3Z%2B%2BLV1Kj1%2BT8GelgbBX6wR8yjHhx40%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the right next person<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;for the role. (I wrote that sentence as a small insider wink at my treasured word-nerd friends out there \u2014 those who know&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fniemanstoryboard.us9.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5776bbdcabe9b960b10ae1302%26id%3D39e9f0adc7%26e%3Df8c051ce24&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cbanaszynskij%40missouri.edu%7Cc3345bc1f97843bf10d208dcd99ebacc%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638624524671623178%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=TH%2BsfdGsHcwjFzYQp10YXBmCQlE8%2F0txO5dvvLiH728%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what penultimate means<\/a>&nbsp;and what it doesn\u2019t. I also know the proper spelling of minuscule \u2014 no, it\u2019s not&nbsp;<em>mini<\/em>-scule. But now I\u2019m just being a snob. And, truth is, I usually have to look it up to be sure, because \u201cmini\u201d makes so much more sense. Mountain Editor tells me to think of it as related to \u201cminute\u201d \u2014 the one pronounced&nbsp;<em>my-noot<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 but I always forget that.)<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>As I contemplated my pending un-tirement, as Mountain Editor calls it, I found myself thinking a lot about Joe Biden. Not just because he now has to figure out how to beat back one more threat of a government shutdown and how to sort out exploding pagers in the Middle East, but because he, too, will soon be taking a step he\u2019s never taken in his long life of public service \u2014 one more to the side than forward, at least in the traditional career sense of forward.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I\u2019d love to see Biden\u2019s list of things that Must Get Done before January and talk to him about what he envisions beyond that. I\u2019d love to know if, as he watches crowds swell with enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, he suffers twinges of envy:&nbsp;<em>Hey, that\u2019s my stage.<\/em>&nbsp;Or if, rather, as he watches her get slathered in political toxins, he utters a little prayer of thanks:&nbsp;<em>Been there. Done that. It\u2019s someone else\u2019s turn on the hot seat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I wrote a long essay about that as a draft of last week\u2019s newsletter. Or tried to. There\u2019s something there I\u2019m scratching at, but I haven\u2019t yet found the heart of it. Maybe I\u2019m too distracted by learning to play with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/merlin.allaboutbirds.org\/?utm_source=adgrant&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=merlin&amp;utm_content=merlinbirdguide&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwo8S3BhDeARIsAFRmkOP_RMGWQYe_0oZz2TDsRfD3TDMg6zp-owsT1Sl9XgpDNsyjB1LDV9UaAtLaEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Merlin bird app,<\/a>&nbsp;which I finally let myself download. But the piece wasn\u2019t gelling. So I took some of my own advice from the writing workshop I was hosting at my cabin over the weekend: Sometimes we have to write to explore \u2014 to figure out what our story is \u2014 rather than as a finished product. Sometimes we have to write and write and write until we figure out what we are trying to say, and then, when we stumble onto it, we cut everything we wrote to get there.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Which is what I did. Was it painful to ditch those first 732 words? Yes.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Was it the right thing to do? Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Will I have to write more to understand what\u2019s scratching at me? Probably. Unless I realize it was just something to fuss over for a bit, but not worth more investment. Certainly not worth putting out in the world.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>That was my opener when the writers gathered with their coffee and pastries and chaos Friday morning, after I hit SEND on the newsletter. We studied concrete things, like structure and the ladder of abstraction and the difference between dialogue and quotes. 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