Posts Tagged Linda Escalera Price
To Read is to Live
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Special Editions on September 19, 2014
To bring awareness to the importance of reading and writing, Grammarly, an online automated proofreading service, has initiated their Promote Literacy Program. Bloggers, like us at 5Writers, are partnering with them to bring attention to their efforts, and by sharing this post with you, Grammarly will donate to a literacy charity. For more information about […]
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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 […]
Getting Out Of Bed
Posted by LadyLadder in 2013: Looking Back, Linda on December 30, 2013
by Linda Escalera Price You haven’t seen me for a while. In fact, my blogmates haven’t seen me for a while. There’s a good reason. Which turned into a lousy reason. And the lousy reason lead to a downright pathetic reason. If you recall – or if you go dig in the archives – […]
Half a Year, Whole New Experience: My Time at 5Writers So Far
Posted by Ron Hayes in 2013: Looking Back, Ron on December 19, 2013
by Ron Hayes As I write this, I’m sitting on a cheese bus with two dozen teenage girls, a fellow assistant coach, a chatty middle-aged bus driver, and a handful of teenage boys who, as football players of mine, want to “help out” with things like videotaping, filling water bottles, and being close to their […]
Don’t Watch The Play
Posted by LadyLadder in Linda, Writing Advice on July 3, 2013
Not long after I started writing my first play, I called a local playwright and asked if I buy him lunch and pick his brain. (Food is always a good way to reach theatre people.) It was very productive lunch – my hand had barely stopped moving, I was trying to take notes so quickly. […]
Reading the Signature
Posted by LadyLadder in Linda, Writer's Signature on June 9, 2013
It was the final exam for a graduate level philosophy course. My friend Robert had read and studied the work of major philosophers all semester. He had a solid A going into the final. The paper slid in front of him, and he started to read. It was a list of statements, and he was […]
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