Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“Finally, like pavement weakened by too many cycles of heat and frost, our resistance buckled and cracked.”
Source: Michelle Nijhuis, “The Ghost Commune”, in Aeon magazine.
(There are so many more excellent sentences where this one comes from. Go read them all!)
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Shabbat shalom.
A few professional highlights from the past week:
1. A visit to the new Scarsdale Library Writers Center, where I had the honor of presenting the first lecture in the center’s Professional Series. The topic: “Mapping the Changing Publishing Marketplace.” Thanks so much to my gracious hosts and to the great crowd that turned out.
2. The arrival of my contributor copy of the 2014 Novel and Short Story Writers Market. (The volume includes my article on “Habits of Highly Successful Short-Story Writers,” with sage insights and advice from Roxane Gay, Michael Griffith, and Midge Raymond.)
3. Publication of my article, “10 Ways to Celebrate Jewish Book Month,” on The Forward‘s “Arty Semite” blog.
How about you? Anything you want to share from the past week or so?
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)