Steve Padilla's Writing Tips You'll Use Every Day

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LA Times editor Steve Padilla shares tips to make your writing brighter, tighter & better—self-editing, structure, anecdotes & more.

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Writing Tips You'll Use Every Day Steve Padilla, editor of Column One, the Los Angeles Times' showcase for storytelling, offers sentence-level advice on how to make your writing brighter, tighter and better. Touching on self-editing, crafting anecdotes, structure and more, Padilla will offer tips you can use immediately for any kind of writing — lyrical or technical, quick dailies or enterprise. About Steve Padilla:Steve Padilla, a longtime editor with the Los Angeles Times, has edited a wide variety of subjects—international affairs, presidential elections, higher education and religion among them. (He has also edited his fair share of weather stories.) He currently works with reporters based in Mexico and the Middle East and edits Column One, the Times' showcase for narratives and storytelling. He serves as a writing coach, lectures frequently on writing and devotes his X feed, @StevePadilla2, to writing technique.