Practicing Writing

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• Practicing Writing: Playwriting for Beginners

  More than once I've heard this comment about one (or more) of my short stories: "This would make a great play." Maybe. Trouble is, I don't h...

• Practicing Writing: From My Bookshelf: How to Write Like Chekhov

  LEARNING FROM A MASTER WRITER How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work , edited and introdu...

• Practicing Writing: Five Things That Make Me A Happy Practicing Writer

  I'm trying to be positive here. Rather than rant away about certain aspects of our writing culture that tick me off all too often (and, ahem...

• Practicing Writing: Ten Tips for Formatting Short Story Manuscripts

  Here's a snippet from my presentation on publishing short stories, delivered before the inaugural Jewish Fiction Writers' Conference at the ...

• Practicing Writing: Three Full-Text Tales for Short Story Month

  I'm not feeling at my blogging best. First I mis-scheduled yesterday's "Monday Markets/Jobs/Opportunities" post (it posted on Sunday). And r...

• Practicing Writing: Goals and Priorities

  Recently, one of my practicing writer friends, in what I'm sure was an effort to be helpful (since I was rambling on about various writing-r...