Ask Jerves

gracebello:

Chris Jones, writer for Esquire, creates handy tips on becoming a writer, based on his own career:

• Write a lot, but for nobody but yourself
• Meet an influential authority figure who inexplicably decides to champion you to other people of influence
• Interview a…

A bunch of years back, not long after his incredible Ricky Williams magazine piece was published, a buddy of mine wrote to Chris Jones looking for advice and such. (We were both scrappy hand-to-mouth freelancers at the time, and both loved his feature writing.) Jones responded with a four or five page letter with all kinds of really smart, helpful and honest words and counsel. Great dude. 

And if you haven’t read his piece on the exotic animal massacre from this month’s Esquire, you should. 

(via rubenfeld)