Finds for Writers
Most Fridays the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. But it’s been an excruciating week for so many of us. And frankly, I’ve paid next-to-no attention to garden-variety news from the writing and publishing spheres.
On Wednesday, however, I received an email from Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based global nonprofit organization that I’ve admired for many years. The email introduced a “mini-lesson” titled “Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region.”
The resource isn’t perfect. (What resource is?) But one of its segments impressed me as something that, though intended for educators and students, could be clarifying for writers as well, in our work and in the rest of our lives. It’s a section titled “Avoiding Antisemitic and Islamophobic Tropes in Discussing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
- Katrin Schumann’s musings on the role of waiting in the writing life evoked memories of an essay in my archive (all about waiting AND rejection! fun!).
- Enjoyed learning about my college classmate Sheila Averbuch’s creative routine in this column (also loved the photos of her outdoor creative space).
- Big thanks to Susan Perabo for introducing me to Kelly Fordon’s “Let’s Deconstruct A Story” with this installment. (And thanks to Kelly for adding a transcript this morning!)
- Francophiles, take note of this one: “‘Paris, in its own way, is a character in the book’: An Interview with David Hoon Kim,” conducted by JA Tyler for the Ploughshares blog.
- And of course, you’ll find a new set of Jewish-lit links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a great weekend!