The Writer 11.2019

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writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES November 2019 Volu m e 132 Nu m be r 11 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines Crash and bur ...

2 | The Writer • November 2019 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing (and reading), Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter ...

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

A IN ORDER TO MAKE a living while also pursuing the arts, I feel it’s best to aim low. Being a writer, I myself cobble together ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 5 “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” —Sylvia Plath Now, that’s a good writing prompt, ...

6 | The Writer • November 2019 appears we are born with the correct instincts, but by the time we’ve grown up, we’ve forgotten h ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 “I love writing about monsters and food.” —Nnedi Okorafor A SMART SET OF CUTTING BOARDS Prep you ...

8 | The Writer • November 2019 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI A fter a long time away, I’ve rejoined the world of indoor cl ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 Halfway down, he got bored and leapt off the wall. He high-fived his dad and went off to look for ...

10 | The Writer • November 2019 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO F reelance success – the term, not the column – is a murky con ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 read your words and was moved by them. What we do can have an impact, a concept more energizing ...

In its two decades of existence, National Novel Writing Month has inspired millions of writers to finally put their stories on p ...

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14 | The Writer • November 2019 19991999 2000 2001 2002 Chris Baty decided he wanted to write a novel and estimated that the mos ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 15 2003 2004 2005 Rumors spread that Tony Danza signed up to write. Was it the To n y Danza? (NaNoW ...

16 | The Writer • November 2019 More than 100,000 writers sign up for NaNoWriMo for the first time. “You write on the good days, ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 17 Camp NaNoWriMo, a virtual writing retreat for those who can’t write in November, launches. In th ...

18 | The Writer • November 2019 More than 300,000 people sign up for NaNoWriMo for the first time. “You could be writing the boo ...