On Mother’s Day, David Sedaris made a sold-out appearance in the 900 seat house at Juneau Douglas High School. A humorist—a writer—filling the biggest house we have in our small town in Alaska was somehow reassuring. After reading for about an hour, mostly funny, some overtly political (he was in a friendly crowd), and a […]
Northwords 2017: Discovering Paul Theroux By Katie Bausler and Amy O’Neill Houck, 49 Writers Board Members “All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” ~Mao Tse Tung (as quoted by Paul Theroux) Before we signed up for the North Words Writer’s Symposium, held the first weekend in June in Skagway, neither of us had read Paul
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October guest author Amy O’Neill Houck generated a lot of interest with her first post on striking a balance between connectedness and community. One of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, has a studio in a small building next to his house. He goes to write in this room that has no internet. I can see
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Continuing our December series of the most popular guest author posts of 2013, we are pleased to share one of Amy O’Neill Houck’s October posts that struck a chord with our blog followers. On Deadlines and Risk Taking This past weekend, I participated in the Juneau Douglas Little Theatre’s 24-Hour Miracle. It’s a mini theatre festival
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This past weekend, I participated in the Juneau Douglas Little Theatre’s 24-Hour Miracle. It’s a mini theatre festival where four plays are written and produced in the space of twenty-four hours. The playwrights each meet their cast and their director at 8 pm on Friday evening. A theme is chosen from a hat, and off
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Write One Good Sentence. Write one good, short sentence. And then another. That’s the message of the book I’m reading, Several Short Sentences About Writing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg draws us back to a time in our life as readers when sentences mattered: childhood. When I was not even a reader myself, but read to, my dad
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One of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, has a studio in a small building next to his house. He goes to write in this room that has no internet. I can see the appeal of an un-connected workspace. Connectivity is so much a part of our lives. As writers, though, we need mental space to
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