Creative Column Writing: Writing Columns That Editors Can't Resist

by Luuk Koelman

Always been jealous of the ease with which professional columnists (seem to) write their texts? Simply give it a put some trivial issue into such words that the text will really entertain the reader or exactly touch the sore spot (ouch!). You don’t have ample a few hundred words at max. In a good column, every phrase, every word, yes, even every comma is just in the right place. Writing columns is a craft. And therefore... you definitely can learn how to do it! Professional columnists are very aware of their own writing approach. That’s no surprise, because writing a good column only once isn’t that difficult - but producing a good one every week is quite a different story. How on earth do they do that? My name is Luuk Koelman. I’ve been a professional columnist for over twenty years. I wrote, among others, for the daily newspaper Metro, with over one and a half million readers a day, one of the largest newspapers in the Netherlands. I also teach the craft of column writing at several schools of journalism and I am regularly coaching and training several schools of journalism and I am regularly coaching and training several talented columnists and pupils on a personal basis. In this book, I will tell you all I know about writing columns. I will show you my approach, my way of working. I will give you insights in my own writing process plus sufficient starting points and clues in order to get started yourself. But even more with my methods and working approach, you will know how to differentiate yourself from your competitors! All my knowledge of column writing, based on over fifteen years’ experience, compressed into one great book!

133 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2020

Reviews

[Claudio Nasajon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and effective

A full intro course on column writing in a few, but effective, pages. Clear and straight to the point. Some tips are basic common sense, but there are others that constitute real diamonds for those who are looking for an improvement in the art of column writing.