One of the most useful proverbs that I learned in my journalism classes was "tell a friend." It's an adage that can apply to any kind of storytelling - fiction or nonfiction - but it was especially helpful to me when I was starting out as a small-town newspaper reporter. Overworked, overtired and overcaf-feinated (but underpaid, of course), "tell a friend" was a life preserver for me in my most desperate moments of deadline anxiety.
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