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3 Tricks for magazine writers: How to write on a theme and still make your...
Before you start to type, you might want to try one of these 3 things. One of my writing jobs is penning teen and tween stories for Jewish magazines. Before getting this gig, I had to learn an...
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On Writing About Writing: a guest post by Miriam Hendeles, author of Mazel...
Miriam’s Book! Today’s guest post is from my partner in crime writing, Miriam Hendeles. What do writers write about? We write about our lives and our families. Some of us write about our struggles and...
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Fans, friends, and trolls–publishing my first piece on Tablet
So, Tablet published a piece of mine this week. It’s been a crazy experience. In the first place, writing the piece was a bit out of my comfort zone. While I usually write fiction, this is a personal...
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Better Writing vs Better Sales: What makes a better writer?
Today’s post from The Write Practice got me thinking. In it, Joe Bunting suggests that we worry too much about sales, and even about how good our writing is. I love these two lines: Does the fact that...
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For writers: 5 ways to be funny
If you play your cards right, you’ll have them laughing like hyenas! It’s been a week and a half since Purim, so I’ve gotten lots of feedback about this year’s Klempner family Purim Spiel. My husband...
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Even turtles have to poke their heads out sometimes
What makes Jewish literature Jewish? In theory, I’m on vacation, make that staycation, with my kids and not posting. However, in the last week, two authors I respect both posted on a topic I’ve...
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The Post in Which I Confess Again My Love of Sharpies & Probably Ruffle Some...
Today is Hoshana Rabba, the last day of Sukkot, the Jewish Festival of Booths. In keeping with the more lenient final days of the holiday, my family has been trekking all over Southern California on...
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Is poetry as we know it dead? Goldsmith speculates the “meme machine” has...
This week, The New Yorker book blog published a post by Kenneth Goldsmith about the proliferation of rather un-poetic ”poetry” spreading across the internet. He writes: [T]he Canadian media scholar...
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Personal Essays: The Importance of Being Real
While I prefer to write fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy, I do write other genres. This includes personal essays. I took a little break from writing personal essays over the summer,...
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Better Writing vs Better Sales: What makes a better writer?
Today’s post from The Write Practice got me thinking. In it, Joe Bunting suggests that we worry too much about sales, and even about how good our writing is. I love these two lines: Does the fact that...
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