Friday Finds for Writers

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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • Bonnie Tsui describes what happened when she “accepted a friend’s offer to share an office at a longtime writers’ collective and began writing in the company of others a few days a week.”
  • Speaking of writers in the company of others: Take a listen to this graduating speech delivered by Sophronia Scott at the most recent commencement ceremony of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.
  • “How to Create, Publish, and Market an Anthology (and why you’d want to)”–thanks to @JaneFriedman for leading me to this one.
  • Lovely post by Ellen Meeropol on her favorite reads in 2014 (so far).
  • “The New Yorker is overhauling its website and making all the articles it has published since 2007 available free for three months before introducing a paywall for online subscribers.”

    • Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Well, what can I tell you? Since last week, I’ve indeed continued to submit my literary humor piece (and I’ve continued to have it rejected!). And I’ve completed a full draft of that essay-review I mentioned. So, there’s been some progress.

    But probably the most meaningful “event” of the week has been the calculation and donation of my quarterly contribution to The Blue Card. As I’ve explained, each calendar quarter since my story collection was released, I’ve given money to The Blue Card based on the quarter’s book sales.

    Admittedly, this quarter was a lean one for book sales. But thankfully, some readers are still discovering and purchasing the book. So long as that continues, the contributions will, too.

    Sunday Sentence

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

    “It is terrible to carry a doomed child beneath your heart.”

    Source: Kate Maloy, “A Normal Woman,” in Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion, edited by Karen E. Bender & Nina de Gramont.