If you want to contribute to our Watch/Listen/Read, please do not hesitate to reach out! Adam Writes: I got to read children’s stories to my nephew this week. The author is a favorite from when I was a kid: James Stevenson’s Grandpa and Wainey series. I remember being delighted by these books some thirty years…
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Rejection Letters
Part of the Process… is Rejection I want to share something about receiving rejection letters. I am coming to the conclusion of the revision process on a few stories I’ve been writing, thanks in part to the editorial eye of Lev Raphael. One of the things I’ve been doing lately is reviewing my Submittable profile…
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Welcome to the latest episode of Watch/Listen/Read brought to you by the 2 Rules of Writing team. This column is our chance to relax a little, share what we’ve been diving into this week, and to get your recommendations, too. Erika writes: Art for the Exhausted I’ve had one of those weeks where I cannot…
Exposition versus Emotion: A Writer Chooses
The other day I was talking to a friend about a piece she was writing. Ray tends to write in a personal style, but is starting to include more academic sources. Considering my own traumatic brush with academia, I’m ambivalent about this. One thing she said bothered me, because of what it represents. She said:…
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Erika Writes: Goodbye Sidney Poitier I’m writing this with the movie To Sir With Love playing in the background. It’s one of my favorite Sidney Poitier films, and always good for a good cry–fitting it seems, upon hearing of the passing of Sidney Poitier. It’s hard to choose a favorite film–the first one I ever…
New Year’s Writing Resolutions: Avoiding Burnout
I managed to convince myself to take a week off from posting to the website, as a means of avoiding burnout. It wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. As much as I want to post every week, every day, even, to keep up consistent site traffic, I recognized that my energy is not unlimited. I…
It’s Caturday and We Have Questions
Big Cat and Little Cat drank a bit too much milk last night, so most of their queries today have been: “Where’s the aspirin?” But in the spirit of the New Year, they’d like to know if you have any New Year’s Resolutions concerning your writing? What are you planning to write in the New…
Watch/Listen/Read: New Year’s Edition
Erika Writes: I would love to be able to do a wrap up for the year, but to be honest, I haven’t kept track of enough of what I’ve watched, listened to or read this year. I’ll save that for next year, perhaps when there’s a full year of posts to reflect on. Looking Back…
Your New Year’s Writing Resolution
So you want to start writing. Maybe you’ve tried other New Year’s Resolutions in the past and they haven’t stuck–or they have! Maybe you’ve tried more health-related ones or career-related ones. A New Year’s Resolution to write more is a wonderful thing. Cynic that I am, I think it’s a nice idea to take stock…
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Erika Writes: Shakespeare, Sedaris, and Such This week did not start out with anything as remarkable as last week’s ugly crying. It actually began with a birthday celebration for one of my kids. Beyond that, I’ve been trying to keep myself distracted because I had expected to hear about something very important on Wednesday only…