Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick things.
1. After a few weeks’ hiatus, my writing accountability partner and I have resumed our practice of exchanging weekly intentions. It’s making a difference.
(more…)Three quick things.
1. After a few weeks’ hiatus, my writing accountability partner and I have resumed our practice of exchanging weekly intentions. It’s making a difference.
(more…)Three quick things.
1. Calendar update! I’m delighted to announce that along with authors Ellen Meeropol and Sandell Morse, I’ll be taking part in an online literary event (on Zoom, of course) on Sunday, May 31. Many thanks to our gracious host Julie Zuckerman, of Literary Modiin. Register here.
(more…)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.”
A quick prefatory note: Like many of you, I’ve been awash in Jewishly-focused online offerings lately. This week’s links reflect that current reality.
Shabbat shalom.