An abbreviated post this week, and one that features some cross-posted items.
Wishing you all a good weekend.
Another week, another atypical Friday post.
Normally, I post a set of particularly Jewishly-inflected literary links over on the My Machberet blog each Thursday. And the next day, I link to that post as one of several “finds” for the broader writing community right here on Practicing Writing.
But in my world, and for many of you, nothing’s normal right now.
Here’s what I posted on My Machberet yesterday.
And in this space today, I’ll post some items that, more urgently than usual, seem important for both blogs’ audiences to encounter.
(more…)Please excuse me.
I haven’t only failed to publish a “Words of the Week” post this week.
I’ve also failed (again) to compile the routine post of “Jewish Literary Links,” which normally appears in this space every Thursday.
Maybe that’s because, nearly two weeks since October 7, nothing seems to be routine any more.
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My heart is still in the East. (For more about that, please check the My Machberet blog.) This may not be as comprehensive or detailed a Monday post as you’ve come to expect on Practicing Writing—you’ll need to check some deadlines and salary info on your own. But it’s what I can do at the moment.
(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. Although I don’t have the usual array of links to offer, I do have one “find” to share.
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