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Writer's Notebook

By Alyssa Roenigk

Thursday, January 15, 2009

One of the toughest parts of our job as writers is narrowing days, weeks, sometimes months of reporting into what is often only a few hundred words. That was the case with my most recent story on snowboarder Kevin Pearce. I interviewed more than 20 folks during my research period, watched Pearce compete in the halfpipe several times and spent a few days with him and his family in Vermont at the end of October. What made it into The Magazine is a snippet of Pearce's story. Here's a hodgepodge o ...

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