How Writers Can Find Their Next Story

In Mediabistro’s latest AvantGuild feature, writers and editors detail their methods for generating new and interesting content long after the creativity well runs dry. For example:

Check out the competition

“Looking at the competition can help spark ideas that could fill gaps or news they’re not covering,” said Nick Barber, a tech reporter for IDG. If you read a piece another outlet wrote about a subject, ask yourself what’s missing or try to look at the piece from the opposite point of view.

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