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Why I Don’t Need To Set Goals
Posted by LadyLadder in Goals 2016, Linda on January 29, 2016
By Linda Escalera Price I HATE goals. I know, I’ve mentioned this before. But I really do. So I don’t set them. Here’s my rationale. I don’t need goals to give me direction – I know where I’m headed. I don’t need goals to get things accomplished – I know what things I want to […]
“Never Work With Children Or Animals”
Posted by LadyLadder in Linda on July 13, 2015
by Linda Escalera Price I’m a huge fan of W.C. Fields’ quotes. And when the topic of “Writing with Pets” came up, the above quote was the first thing that popped into my head. I don’t have pets. It’s not that I don’t like animals, I grew up with pets. But think of me as the Aunt […]
Neil Simon Taught Me How To Write A Play
Posted by LadyLadder in Guest Bloggers, Influences, Linda on May 23, 2015
by Linda Escalera Price As a child my favorite author was Madeleine L’Engle, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ian Fleming, C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Alfred Hitchcock and whoever wrote the book I was currently reading. I was very non-discriminatory – basically if it had words that told a […]
At What Price, Truth?
Posted by LadyLadder in Linda, Truth in Writing on March 30, 2015
by Linda Escalera Price When I was 16, I read a book that shone light on the unspoken truth of what it was like to live in the home of a Marine fighter pilot. Words we had dared not utter outside of our homes – even to our best friends – pages and pages of […]
It’s my business
Posted by LadyLadder in Contributors, Linda, The Business of Writing on January 27, 2015
I spent more than a decade as a freelance advertising copywriter before I became a playwright. So when I shifted genres – taking a huge paycut in the process! – I already knew the one thing that can make or break your writing career. Mindset. You can take yourself seriously. Or not. You can see […]
Living in the Present Tense
Posted by LadyLadder in 2014: Looking Back, Linda on December 22, 2014
by Linda Escalera Price I’m supposed to be writing about reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the future. But in the past two months, I learned about an ALS diagnosis, went to the funeral of an old friend, cried when another old friend’s 17 year-old daughter died and sat in the doctor’s […]
Die Laughing
Posted by LadyLadder in Contributors, Linda, Writing about Death on October 19, 2014
by Linda Escalera Price When my Grandfather was 89, he sat down on the back deck of his Napa Valley home, watched the setting sun cast shadows across the vineyards, sipped a glass of 18 year-old Glenlivet and breathed his last breath. You could almost see the credits roll at the end of a long, […]
How A Hotdog Made Me A Better Writer
Posted by LadyLadder in Growing Up A Writer, Linda on September 30, 2014
by Linda Escalera Price My mother refused to teach me to read. I was about 3, and she thought if I learned to read then, I would be bored when I started kindergarten. So I taught myself to read by studying my older siblings’ workbooks about Dick and Jane and Sally. (As the youngest, I […]
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Posted by LadyLadder in Linda, Supporting Yourself As A Writer on August 30, 2014
by Linda Escalera Price “I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to hear myself saying, butI don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.” – Tony Kushner in Time Out When you hear things like this, the idea of making […]
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