The raw power of a well-crafted description.

by Michael McKown | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized

I do love great writing. This is a paragraph from a short story by Kevin Hall. Topic is the young man’s first job as an intern in the basement of a hundred-year-old brick building in Omaha, now housing a big law firm: “Fall turned to Winter, Winter turned...

Sportswriters are accustomed to describing brilliant, seemingly-impossible plays. But what do they do when the play they’ve just witnessed is “impossible-r?”

by Michael McKown | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized

I love watching football, especially on a really big-screen TV. And I love great writing. Sports writing is a challenge. Describing plays and the actions of players is often given over to excessive use of superlatives, and there’s a reason for that. Great things...