Word: writing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Licked a hallucinogenic toad • Just beat Jean-Claude Van Damme in a bar fight • Saved babies and puppies from a burning building • Joined the mob • Married a unicorn • Got stuck in a minefield • Traveled back in time. Then traveled forward in time to write this • Became a Somali pirate • Sold out the Somali pirates to authorities for a chest full of gold coins • Spent seven hours at the bank, trying to deposit gold coins • Eventually just robbed the place • Is trapped in the viper pit again. Damn...
...maybe I'll write all of these while sitting on the couch, wrapped in my Snuggie and sipping chamomile tea. But can you really blame me? Viper pits are notoriously uncomfortable...
...apology. This wasn’t something Caleb or any of my other sources had requested; but I felt ambiguous enough about the reporting process that I thought a follow-up might be appropriate. I told my editors about it, but then I stalled. I tried to write, but couldn't get down anything that satisfied me. I wasn't sure what it was that I was trying to apologize...
What I had done to Caleb in being deceptive about the angle of my story certainly wasn't nice. It wasn't nice either to write a story about Caleb—or about any of the others—that I had good reason to think would make them upset. By the standards of personal ethics, it wasn’t particularly virtuous to publicize my classmates’ ambitions in order to further...
...merit a retraction or an apology. But they decided to add a clarification to the online photograph of Caleb to emphasize that the campaign button on his chest had been added with Photoshop. The whole situation, they said, was a little dubious. I said I was still willing to write a personal reflection on reporting the article, and they agreed that readers would benefit from the added context...