Ask the boring question first
The question you are embarrassed to ask is usually the one everyone else wanted asked.
William
I write reporting, short stories and songs. Most of what interests me arrives as a document nobody wanted read. One day I would like to write about — and for — NASA.
What a song knows that an essay doesn’t
Three minutes and two hundred words sounds like a disadvantage. It turns out to be the best editing lesson I have had.
Why NASA writes everything down
Flight rules get written long before anyone straps in, because nobody trusts themselves to think clearly in the moment. There is a lesson in…