May 12, 2006
I read this morning that NBC fired a producer for plagiarism: The script said that trainer Michael Matz “ran into the fire to save the lives of three children.” The narrator paused dramatically and said, “ran into the fire.” The pause and last line echoed one delivered by Martin Sheen, who plays the president on [...]
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April 3, 2006
I submitted this story to a magazine called The First Line. It didn’t sell and I didn’t think it would. I tackled the piece because the premise of the magazine intrigues me — each story in the publication begins with the same first line — and I wanted to submit something. I didn’t think it [...]
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