Tips writers and journalists from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Inspiration / / December 26, 2019
Pulitzer Prize - one of the most prestigious awards, which is awarded to journalists, musicians and writers. amount of the premium - $ 10 thousand, but for the winners especially important in its reward, not its cash equivalent.
Holders of the Pulitzer Prize in different years became the author of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway poet Carl Sandburg. The latter won the award three times in different years.
The literature award given for the best dramatic work, a biography, a poem or a fiction book. Journalists are also to receive it is sometimes necessary to risk your life, illuminating the war, finding sensation or investigating the various conspiracy theories.
Many prize winners in the interviews share tips, talking about how they were able to succeed, how flows creative process and how to overcome writer's crisis. We chose the best advice from the Pulitzer Prize-winning different times.
Jennifer Egan
Egan received an award in 2011 for his novel "Time laughs last." In interviews, she often told that she needed to for inspiration. It turns out, not so much.
In order to start the story, I just need the time, place, and know the problem that I want to raise.
According to her, the main thing in the work - to be obsessed with the process and move in small steps. Egan feels not too prolific writer, but the daily writes on pages 5-7 of the original text.
Like many other authors, Egan makes a few drafts. Typically, three or four. Each draft overwritten up to 20 times until it is brought to the state in which the writer is ready to show it to the editor.
Bill Dedman
Dedman received the award in 1989 for a journalistic investigation of racial discrimination in Atlanta. His investigation led to reforms to change the attitude to the problem in this city. He advised journalists and writers to explore the world around them:
Express their opinion on the work of another person, or to transfer his work - it's easy. Instead, try to create something of their own, watching the world and people around him.
Dedman uses Microsoft Excel to sort the available information and then work with it. Whether or not to follow his example? Note that Dedman - journalist of the old school, therefore is familiar to themselves instruments.
The head immediately comes George MartinThat for writing his books using an old computer with a DOS operating system and a text editor Wordstar 4.0, which was popular back in the 80s.
Adam Goldberg
Award Goldberg earned an investigation that affected the police station in New York and treatment of Muslims after the September 11 terrorist attacks. According to him, the basic quality of any journalist - fearlessness.
Do you want to become a successful journalist? Half the effort - to learn how to be fearless. I can not count all the people who have given up to me during the investigation and after that I had to break through.
Jason Zep
Zep won as recently as 2014, for his journalistic work in Asia. The advantage of his work, he considers constant communication with new people and travel the world. The advice is simple: always keep in mind the long term.
Never think that the story that you are doing nothing. Under it there is always something else. Expand the topic completely and dig as deep as possible.