Anatomy of an Article – Part 1

If you think about it, it’s the details that draw us into a story – whether fiction or non-fiction. That’s why I was interested in reading a recent article about the value ofnote-taking for travel writers. I’m not a travel writer, per se, but I never travel without a notebook shoved in my hip pocket.

Whenever I visit a place (and for me, that’s typically somewhere in the frontier west) I jot down random observations. That way, no matter how long it may be before I write about the place, by dig...