2020-01-01 The Writer

EXCERPT CONT. Our Wayward Fate Even though the situation wasn’t funny in the least, I laughed. As much as my mother wished she c ...

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writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES January 2020 Contents Volu m e 133 Nu m be r 1 18 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines Cho ...

2 | The Writer • January 2020 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing, Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter New year, old ...

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4 | The Writer • January 2020 AT a bookstore event for my first young adult novel, which tells a story about toxic love, I was a ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 5 He is open and effusive with his certainty about their relationship, and pressures Betts to prior ...

6 | The Writer • January 2020 BOOKISH New year, old words Fresh into a new year – and a new decade to boot – it’s always good to ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 A TIMELESS NECKLACE You may not be able to turn back time like Hermione without a Hogwarts ac- c ...

8 | The Writer • January 2020 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI Choose your own narrator When should an author write in the se ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 books. What more thrilling way for a kid to escape her suburban California existence than to set ...

10 | The Writer • January 2020 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO The survivor: An interview with Pat Jordan The legendary magazi ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 want to do, but you’ve got to think globally. You’re always talking about how you wanted to writ ...

12 | The Writer • January 2020 WRITER AT WORK BY TONYA ABARI W hen Hannah Grieco sat down to read to her 6-year-old daughter, sh ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 13 digital story collection, History of Magic in North America, came under fire for inappropriately ...

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writermag.com • The Writer | 15 Since 2013, her fans, begrudgingly, learned to cope with their unanswered questions. But then a ...

16 | The Writer • January 2020 slowly learn a precise, tender love for the English language. Suddenly, she wanted to be a writer ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 17 It’d be funny, perhaps, if it weren’t all so on-the- nose. Lu is writing for teenagers, yes. She ...