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MAY 2020 Fine-tune your YOUR TOP 10 GRAMMAR WOES, SOLVED FOR GOOD SCREENWRITING VS. PLAYWRITING: WHAT NEWBIES NEED TO KNOW 50 CO ...

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Boston, Mass. Join The Writer’s staff, readers, and special guest speakers for our inaugural writing confer ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES May 2020 Contents Volu m e 133 Nu m be r 5 22 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines Unfamil ...

2 | The Writer • May 2020 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing (and revising), Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter Tid ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 3 The Writer (ISSN 0043-9517) is published monthly by Madavor Media, LLC, 25 Braintree Hill Office ...

“Posterior tibial tendinitis,” the doctor said, pointing to my sore ankle. Momentarily, I forgot about the pain in my foot. As a ...

Doctor’s orders placed the seat of my pants on the seat of my desk chair. I began writing about my injury. My first essay was ab ...

6 | The Writer • May 2020 PIN UP Whether you’re a diehard collector or you’re just looking for a few pieces of flair for your je ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 “Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” —Terry Pratchett The lives we live “A reader ...

8 | The Writer • May 2020 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI L et me tell you a short story. It’s about the time I worked with ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 moved on by now from the idea that our default environments and charac- ters are white. (Ask your ...

10 | The Writer • May 2020 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO You never “make it” Here’s why I realized that’s OK. Ato mic Ro der ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 backpack full of rocks. You can do it, but the exertion will grind you to a halt. ••• The celebr ...

12 | The Writer • May 2020 min iwid e/S hut ter sto ck ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 13 GRAMMAR WOES, SOLVED A guide to commas, clauses, commonly mixed-up words, and more, with can’t-f ...

14 | The Writer • May 2020 The guy answering her wondered why this was necessary. “If my idea is good enough,” he demanded, “why ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 15 ability to get other things right, too, like the names of your sources. (And this is even more c ...

16 | The Writer • May 2020 kk Tip: Take sentences connected by a comma apart to see whether each clause stands on its own, i.e., ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 17 DYSLEXIA AND GRAMMAR When I polled writers for their grammar questions, a prolific author whose ...

18 | The Writer • May 2020 FIC T FLA Cut the  ...