The Writer - 04.2020

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writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES April 2020 Contents Volu m e 133 Nu m be r 4 18 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines Objec ...

2 | The Writer • April 2020 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing, Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter Freefall Once up ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 3 Senior Editor Nicki Porter Contributing Editor Melissa Hart Copy Editor Toni Fitzgerald EDITORIAL ...

4 | The Writer • April 2020 eats words like “convalesce” and “paraphernalia” for breakfast. Do not get her started on the eight ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 5 “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” —Oscar Wilde work hits the shelves. We eagerly cr ...

6 | The Writer • April 2020 Want to read more poetry this year? Here’s how. These (free!) websites, newsletters, and social medi ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” —Emily Dic ...

8 | The Writer • April 2020 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI myself of the one-dimensional charac- ters I sometimes read in f ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 is...well, always: We start to only pay attention to the things that support and confirm our poin ...

10 | The Writer • April 2020 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO S everal months ago, I inter- viewed Dave Blazek, who draws and w ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 until I could resume a normal free- lance schedule. ☐ Practice flexibility. As a father and husb ...

12 | The Writer • April 2020 It’s easy to keep tinkering with a manuscript forever, but at some point, it’s time to cut the cord ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 13 AS any veteran novelist can tell you, a standard- length novel of 80,000 to 100,000 words calls ...

14 | The Writer • April 2020 The ‘finished’ novel and the elements of fiction Novel writing is a craft, one that requires an ade ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 15 Jane Smiley Every novel is a quest: “Novels are not about what you know but about what you learn ...

16 | The Writer • April 2020 me, this is partly analytical: talking through it with your enlightened early readers, or anyone el ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 17 This thorough analysis revealed the draft’s hidden problems. Getting down to the fundamental fic ...

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