And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.