The Whole Megillah- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 48–Mystery DateMaybe you remember the television commercials: “Mystery date, are you ready for a mystery date?” It was a board game in which you opened the door to your mystery date in hopes of it not revealing, “The Dud,” a slovenly … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–November 30, 2022Some very quick things: Happy Writing!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 47–Step on a CrackThis week calls for writing about superstitions. Don’t walk under a ladder. Beware the path of the black cat. Don’t step on a crack in the sidewalk or you’ll break your mother’s back. Be careful with praise. I wrote about … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–November 23, 2022Some very quick things: Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, and happy writing to all!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 45 & 46–The Hardest Thing & FailureI challenged my Writing the Past workshop on these two prompts: What secrets did your family keep and write about a failure. I could say my family never talked about the Holocaust, although my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–November 16, 2022Some very quick things: Happy writing!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 44–Reunions, Weddings, and FuneralsThis week’s prompt calls for writing about family gatherings. I chose to write about the Krasner family reunion that I organized early in my family history journey. We held it in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, in August 1990. It was … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–November 2, 2022Some very quick things: Happy writing!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 42 and 43–The One Who Wronged You and Religious SpaceI procrastinated on The One Who Wronged You. I didn’t want to crawl back into the cave. And indeed, writing about the person who I believed wronged me in letter form just got me riled up all over again. My … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–October 26, 2022Some very quick things: Happy writing!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 48–Mystery Date
Monthly Archives: April 2021
New Book Announcement! Ethel Rosenberg: A Life in Poems by Barbara Krasner
This appeared yesterday in Publishers Marketplace: April 29, 2021 – ETHEL ROSENBERG, by Barbara Krasner Children’s: Young Adult Fiction Barbara Krasner’s ETHEL ROSENBERG: A LIFE IN POEMS, highlighting the life of Ethel Rosenberg, to Carolyn Yoder at Calkins Creek, for publication in fall 2022, … Continue reading
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Mid-Week Field Notes | April 28, 2021
Three quick things this week: I have signed the contract for my bio in verse and have completed the revisions. As soon as I’m able, I’ll announce the work. Meanwhile, I’ve joined a novel-writing Amherst Writers & Artists group for … Continue reading
Author’s Notebook | The Singer and the Scientist by Lisa Rose
Rose, Lisa. The Singer and the Scientist. Illustr. Isabel Muñoz. Kar-Ben, April 2021, 32 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): I’m going to start with a set of bundled questions: How did you find this story about Marian’s performance at McCarter … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Isabel Munoz, Kar-Ben, Lisa Rose, Marian Anderson, The Singer and the Scientist
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#52snapshots–Week 17
I didn’t really generate any new work last week. I started to write about the bedroom my twin sister and I shared in our childhood home, but it wasn’t very interesting. It hasn’t so far sparked any revelations, and that’s … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | April 21, 2021
Three quick things this week: I am still slogging through revisions of my bio in verse to meet my editor’s date. I have a bunch of new poems to write and hope I can find some poetic form to serve … Continue reading
#52snapshots–Week 16
The next few weeks are going to be tough with revisions to two novel-in-verse manuscripts and wrapping up the spring semester. But I have some dedicated writing time allocated and hope to keep generating new material. I have done some … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | April 14, 2021
Three quick things this week: Because I’m revising verse and because it’s National Poetry Month, I’ve ordered two books each from CavanKerry Press and Dos Madres Press for inspiration. Blog interviews are beginning to emerge about my middle-grade novel in … Continue reading
#52snapshots–Week 15
In the past week, I’ve revised a non-snapshot essay about a friend who died, trying to understand our relationship, and how perhaps her sometimes erratic behavior was driven by her illness that she didn’t talk about, at least not to … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | April 7, 2021
Three quick things this week: For the next few weeks I will be deep in revision on various projects, especially my bio in verse. I’m reading other novels in verse and just good poetry to keep me inspired. Any suggestions? … Continue reading
#52snapshots–Week 14
I think the trick to fueling these snapshots, at least for me, is research. I wanted to revise my piece on the basement of my childhood home. Rumor had it that the basement had been a speakeasy. Using Ancestry, I … Continue reading
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