Writers and Editors

(pat at patmcnees dot com)

Pat's second site

This site built to support the book expanded into Illness and Recovery

(complete archive of the NY Times series, writers exploring literary themes. Requires free membership.)

(Stephen King's now-classic article, which appeared in The Writer in 1986, reprinted on the Great Writing site)

(fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos--that you were never expected to see)

(from the brilliant Mutual of Omaha campaign to record people's stories about moments of clarity, defining moments when they gained the wisdom to change their life)

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

(Bill Dyszel, 4 minutes)

(addicted to a website? bookmark this page and it will remind you to get back to work!)

(check out Newseum's U.S. map -- move your cursor across the map and see the front pages change)

150 resources to help you write better, faster, or more persuasively

(useful for reporters and for sources)

(selections from 1953 on, a gift to the world, and with a single click you can view a manuscript page with the writer's edits)

A tutorial on the Web

(if the news is making you sick, try this approach)

(St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, various notable people are telling the truth)

(Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths)