My favorite show growing up, hands down, was “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” While my friends were drawn to comic book Superheroes, or their more human equivalents in Westerns, I wanted to be Rob Petrie: charming, funny, with a beautiful and loving wife in the suburbs (this was the early ’60s) and a creative and enjoyable job in the city. It was Carl Reiner’s sitcom masterpiece that planted in my childish mind the odd and seemingly delightful idea of becoming a writer.
With editors freed from meetings and commutes there's less of a wait now for rejections.
Freed from meetings and commutes, shouldn’t editors now have more time to read submissions?
Before diving into a long article on writer’s block (yes) I scrolled down to read the author’s bio and learned that he has two books coming out this year.
One of my travel writing students submitted a series of prose poems (a first) - on Germany, Texas, Alabama, Quebec, Miami, New York, China - and in one of them used the phrase in media res (another first).