Mark Pawlosky – Wall Street Journalist on why good writing is really re-writing

Mark Pawlosky worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was an editor for CNBC.com, and is now using that experience of sourcing scoops to write the Nik Byron Investigation series.

The first is ‘Hack’, it looks at Nik Byron getting the story of how top secret US surveillance technology was stolen. He needs to expose the plot and get the story before he, and it, is silenced.

We talk about brevity, why it’s important to keep things tight and not waste everyone’s time. Also you can hear why his process is mostly re-reading and re-writing, and why he thinks good writing is re-writing.

And be jealous of Mark’s very own, purpose-built, writing room.

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