I wish I could write like this (ABNW 96-111)

    Anne Hull was a national writer for Florida's St. Petersburg Times.  She was a copy clerk there.  She won the ASNE award for non-deadline writing.  She wrote a three-part series about a crime that happened with a police officer being shot.

    Talking about the "Metal Bone", with this Hull combines investigative reporting and the novelist's eye for detail.  She rode with the police squad in order to get the information she needed.  This shows that this crime/story meant something to her and that she really wanted to write it.  "I wanted to bring the mug shot to life and let them learn about the life behind the photograph, and the path that swept this person into the crime." said Hull.  This quote paints a good picture of what she was trying to do with her writing and it helps because she gives a pretty good visual.

       It says that she consisently populates the page with flesh and blood characters and does this with intensive reporting of specific details.  It says that using intensive reporting of specific details is the foundation of good writing.

link http://jerz.setonhill.edu/teaching/EL227/2007/11/best_practices_2.php