The Day I Won the Pulitzer

Jim LaBate
6 min readApr 25, 2019
Photo by Nhia Moua on Unsplash

About 20 years ago, I heard a motivational speaker talk about how to achieve one’s dream. “You have to write it down,” he said, “and not hidden away in a diary or a journal. No, you have to write it in a place where you will see it often and, more important, where others will see it too, so they can acknowledge it and encourage you.”

“No way” was my initial reaction. If I tell others my goal is to win the Pulitzer…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.