Conversations on the Craft

Screenwriter Cindy McCreery has written everything from action to children’s movies and everything in between. In the talk she gave to students at Moody College of Communication, she discussed how she gets in the zone to get even her most underdeveloped ideas on paper. To get at the magic of… read more 

The Texas A&M bonfire collapsed almost 19 years ago, at 2:24 a.m. on Nov. 18, 1999. That night, 12 students died and 27 were injured. Among those injured was John Comstock; he was the last person retrieved alive from the debris. In the Austin American Statesman profile “The Thirteenth Man,”… read more 

In this episode of Conversations on the Craft, sports journalist Patrick Hruby explains the research process behind his 2015 Vice Sports Article, “How Football Pulled The Trigger: Zack Langston’s Family Reflects On His Tragically Short Life.”