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>> host: let's talk about writing a book and the differences from writing a column. >> guest: they are totally difference. a column is 800 words, and length is absolutely everything. you start how many words, how many letters, you really have to compress the length so there's a couple things you can't do at that length. first, it's hard to tell a narrative story because it tames time to set up, hard to do in-depth reporting because by the time you set up a scene, you ate 700 of your 800 words. you have one ideas and hammer it. i try to use my columns narratively like a legal brief, t...

600 of your 800 words. so a column you just have one idea, and you hammer that idea. i try to do my columns more narratively, try to tell a story, but it's really compressed. with a book you can spend a couple years on something, in-depth knowledge and do it in a more narrative forum, more natural thinking in terms of. and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something with a column it's pretty much who's doing what, and it's very specific. but i think we're actually influenced by culture more than by personalities, more than by individuals. so you can try to captur...

golfer dave stockton. >> most of you when you putt and look at a line you're generally going to look as if you're shooting a rifle at it. up to the make it, you're going ing to try to make it and generally you'll miss it low every time. it as important in follow-through as a free-throw. i think the follow-through in putting is crucial. it doesn't have to be much but if it can rollit. the goal for me it sotee the ball roll over that st. by the te it rolls over it i know it's going to go into the hole. >> rose: third parties an great putting when we continue. captioning sponsored by ro...

comes to finding authentic viewings to the problems we're facing. >> rose: we conclude with a putting lesson from the great golfer dave stockton. >> most of you when you putt and look at a line you're generally going to look as if you're shooting a rifle at it. up to the make it, you're going ing to try to make it and generally you'll miss it low every time. it as important in follow-through as a free-throw. i think the follow-through in putting is crucial. it doesn't have to be much but if it can rollit. the goal for me it sotee the ball roll over that st. by the te it rolls over it...

facing. >> rose: we conclude with a putting lesson from the great golfer dave stockton. >> most of you when you putt and look at a line you're generally going to look as if you're shooting a rifle at it. up to the make it, you're going ing to try to make it and generally you'll miss it low every time. it as important in follow-through as a free-throw. i think the follow-through in putting is crucial. it doesn't have to be much but if it can rollit. the goal for me it sotee the ball roll over that st. by the te it rolls over it i know it's going to go into the hole. >> rose: third par...