Gramer Girl here, I'm Mignon Fogarty, your friendly guide to the English language.

Today I have an interview with Jonathan Small, a longtime magazine writer and magazine editor,

and also the host of a podcast called Right About Now.

I'm a guest on his podcast this week, and after we talked, I thought he had so much useful

writing and editing information to share that I wanted to bring him on this show.

Hi, Jonathan. Thank you for being here.

Well, thank you for having me.

You're welcome. And why don't you tell us a little bit about your podcast before we get started

talking about all your great information about interviews and story structure and things like that?

Sure. So Right About Now is a podcast in which I talk to writers of all types and stripes,

screenwriters, novelists, journalists, rappers, anybody who puts pen to paper.

I talk to them about their process, how they got to where they are in their career,

and just the various things they learned along the way.

And I also like to help certain writers tell their stories.

So every so often I'll do an episode to say somebody writes a really interesting magazine

articles about a topic like a serial killer.

I once had somebody on talking about that.

I will sort of recreate this story through audio and have a lot of fun, or not so much

fun. Sometimes when it's a dark topic, but you know what I mean?

Recreating the story through an audio, audio medium as opposed to just a written medium.

Great. And the reason we're talking is because you have this long list of publications

you've written for or edited, The New York Times, TV Guide, Cosmo, Details, Maxim, Good

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