Listening to Sharon Tregaskis this morning reminded me how important the details of writing are — thinking about voice, pacing, which quotes to use, etc. THE classic commentary on this the science writer Jon Franklin. In 1979, he wrote a feature story about brain surgery, a story that later won the 1st Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Later, he annotated the story.

Full story

Annotated version (follows the interview with Franklin)