I recently gave a craft talk of sorts at UAA, titled “Notes from a Literary Journalist: The Importance of Passion, Persistence, and Paying Attention.” I’d like to pull a few thoughts from that talk to give a sense of my own process in crafting stories and then sharing them with the world – or at […]
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We’re engaged in a flurry of year-end planning here at 49 Writers. We’ve enjoyed a great response to our call for featured authors for 2010; December 15 is the deadline for tossing your name in that hat. Watch for our new book advertising guidelines to be posted soon, along with news about possible workshops and
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I was going to leave today blogpost-free, all the more to encourage you to read yesterday’s post about whether we need a writing center. (Please read, please comment; please?) But I’ve had this thought I just need to share this week about my co-blogger, Deb Vanasse. You may know that I’d never met Deb before
I’m usually wrong, thank goodness: Here’s to Deb! Read More »
Several of us in the Alaska writing community have been having this conversation over the years, and tomorrow, I’ll be meeting with a few folks to discuss it in greater depth (more on that soon). So I thought I’d ask you: Do we need a writing center in Anchorage? Have you had any experiences with
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When talking about the writing life, I like to tell a story from my geology days, about a boss who absolutely loved the work we did. As I recount in Changing Paths, “Inwardly I cringed when a crew leader named Joe talked about our work. ‘You know,’ he said with gusto, ‘geology isn’t just a
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Here it is, one of the coldest and darkest Mondays of the year, statistically speaking, and sad to say, I’m happy. Happy is bad, at least where writing is concerned, according to research by University of New South Wales Psychology Professor Joe Forgas, as reported by Mark Peters in Wordtastic. Forgas assigned his research subjects
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We’ve had a great response to our 49 Writers call for featured authors for 2010, and there’s still time to toss your name in the mix. It’s a fine way to connect with other writers and get the word out about what you’ve been doing. Email me on or before December 15 at debv@gci.net to
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A third and final postcard to 49w friends from my recent research trip to Italy and Germany. I planned my recent Europe trip as a one-way journey from Rome to Munich, with plans to visit the concentration camp at Dachau just before flying home to Alaska. To be honest, I dreaded ending the trip on
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Old cans of squid and tuna, labeled in Russian. Con artist Soapy Smith’s pocket watch, engraved with an elk. A catalog of Gold Rush-era ads, providing clues to what life in that fabled era was really like. These were just some of the eclectic treasures seen by visitors who attended librarian Michael Catoggio’s insider’s tour
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Next week, we’ll feature the first of four posts from Bill Sherwonit, 49 Writers Featured Author for December. Here, an interview with Bill on his most recent book, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness. How is Changing Paths different from your previous books, especially Living with Wildness, also from the University of
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