Friday Five: recent craft-y reads

On submitting short stories, crafting great dialogue, persevering in the face of rejection, and more.

Happy May Day, everyone! And for all you writers in distress–perhaps you’re shouting Mayday! Mayday! into the void right now–I hope the following five essays and articles on the writing craft will help:

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Switching it up

Featuring an exclusive golden shovel poem

One of the valuable bits of advice I did not cover in a recent Friday Five post about the book Writers on Writing was this morsel from the essay by Rosellen Brown (author of Tender Mercies and much more):

If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms. Make yourself an amateur in a new genre.

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