Bobby Hawthorne (absent)

1. Hawthorne suggests reporters to not just write their stories about a single broad subject like football but to zoom in on one player, figure out about their lives and fully understand them in order to produce a good story. He says that writers should show emotion through their stories to be more human and let people connect with their subjects. If writers just wrote bland stories without any imagination or thought, nobody would read them. He says that any story can be interesting if you make it good.

2. His recipe starts with drama, the story has to be juicy for people to want to bite into it. He says to build your story around real person, not a made up character. The story must also have conflict, there must people a character that maybe the reader doesn't like or an idea that is blocking the chapters path. There should also be dialogue as well as order, the story should follow a certain sequence so that it makes sense. Also it needs to include anticipation so that the story can build suspense and last, there must be a climax or major event/turning point in the story.