ProgressOhio

Eric queried me a few month ago about techniques for writing letters to the editor and when you use the tools on Progress Ohio to do so, you can click a tab for a few tips.

However, in March's The Writer magazine, there's an entire article called, "Writing op-eds for pay and pleasure." The Plain Dealer's Gloria Millner (editor of the PD's Forum page) is quoted extensively. Ms. Millner has accepted and published a few of my op-eds for the PD (although Brent Larkin actually was the first editor anywhere to accept and publish anything written by me, and it was an op-ed on the duty of the government to warn us, analogized to the mental health professional's duty to warn, in the spring of 2002, when we learned that El Shrubo knew a lot more than we previously had been told he knew re: 9/11).

The article doesn't appear to be available online yet but if people are interested, I'd be happy to start a group to that talks about, looks at and together makes our written communications to everyone else as powerful, succinct and persuasive as possible.

In the meantime, Brian or Dave - Ron Kovach who is the senior editor at The Writer used to write for the Cleveland Press I believe for many years.  Maybe you could ask permission to publish or link or provide access from Progress Ohio to the entire article.  It's worth it.