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.”
- Enjoyed Rita Zoey Chin’s take on “7 Writing Tips That Also Apply to Life” (Writer’s Digest).
- “A better way to teach writing? Try journalism.” (Instead of ye olde composition course, anyway.) So advises Elizabeth Toohey in a compelling (longish) article for Nieman Storyboard.
- Select content from the new (November-December 2022) issue of Poets & Writers is now online. Among the highlights: Aaron Gilbreath’s “Getting Paid.” (Reading that article has prompted me to re-up one of my own pieces, “Making Poetry Pay: Five Ways to Increase Your Poetry Income.”)
- Over on the Brevity blog, Amy Goldmacher extols “The Power of Constraints to Unlock Creativity” (to me, the constraints function a lot like prompts).
- Over on the My Machberet blog: the latest Jewish lit links.
Have a great weekend.