Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

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