Taking the Note
by Joshua Irving Gershick
No writer likes to hear that their play needs yet another draft. But willingness to go back to the board often means the difference between a half-baked work and one that really says and does what the writer intended.
Minimal Talking/Maximal Writing
by Joshua Irving Gershick
Before a word can be written, a writer must sit. But it’s getting to the chair. When I was a staff writer for someone else, I was at the screen at 6 a.m., logging on. The key was accountability: Someone else was waiting. The solution? I found myself a silent partner. And everything changed.
Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (Unless You’re a Woman Over 40)
by Joshua Irving Gershick
Today's topic is ageism or, more specifically, sageism, the intersection between sexism and ageism. It’s real. And it keeps legions of good writers – particularly women writers over 40 – from being produced. They are the generation excluded at the outset of their careers because of sexism, and now are overlooked because of ageism.
Making a Place at the Table for Differently Abled Writers
by Joshua Irving Gershick
Differently abled writers have challenges that able-bodied writers don't. No drama: Just a fact. But don't count us out.
