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May 2020
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DEPARTMENTS
8 From the Front Lines
Unfamiliar waters
How to navigate some-
one else’s experience
successfully.
BY YI SHUN LAI10 Freelance Success
You never “make it”
Here’s why I realized
that’s OK.
BY PETE CROATTO38 Literary Spotlight
Mothers Always Write
BY MELISSA HART40 Conference Insider
Mendocino Coast
Writers’ Conference
BY MELISSA HARTIN EVERY ISSUE
2 From the Editor4 Take Note42 Markets47 Classified advertising48 How I Write12 10 biggest grammar
woes, solved
A guide to commas, clauses,
commonly mixed-up words, and
more, with can’t-fail tricks to keep
your writing clean.
BY TONI FITZGERALD18 Cut the fiction flab
Four actionable ways to
tighten – and help editor-
proof – your stories.
BY RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE
22 Writing for the radio
Novels have words. Movies have
images. But radio drama – a work
of fiction produced solely for
listeners, not viewers – relies on
sound and sound alone. Here’s
how writers can successfully
use audio to tell a complete and
compelling story.
BY DEVON ELLINGTON28 Lights! Camera! Action!
Behind the scenes of plays
and screenplays
BY KERRIE FLANAGAN36 Eviscerating envy
Jealous thoughts invading your
brain? Show that green-eyed
monster to the door.
BY ANICA MROSE RISSICover: Macrovector/Shutterstock