Our entire 49 writers “family” wishes you a great new year – with lots of ways to reach those writing goals we know you’re considering as you write your 2011 resolutions. If this is your year to learn and grow, take a class with us: from Storytelling on Jan. 9, to Stirring Words, a food-writing …
This morning, I’m trying to help my husband and daughter get out the door on their first winter camping trip, complicated by the recent announcement of a high-wind advisory — and complicated even before that by the fact that they are camping, well, in winter. That was the point, of course (daughter’s school project; husband …
Anyone going to the AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference, Feb 2-5, in Washington D.C.? I’m dedicating today’s post to AWP because I figure other Alaska writers, especially ones without a strong university affiliation, may be as unfamiliar with the conference as I was before last year, when I first attended the …
Half of what I say is not as good as the other seventy percent I edit out. Always save another draft. Nope, And it will never be perfect. It is due. Food gets done. Make more tea, but turn the email OFF. If it were not for deadlines, I would never complete anyth…… Children’s author …
4.9 things writing teaches: a guest post by Cherie Stihler Read More »
I began these posts by mentioning that I could see Campobello Island, New Brunswick where Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his summer home across a narrow channel of water, Eastern Passage, from Eastport, Maine where I’m spending the winter while I finish a collection of poems about growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts. The only thing the …
Happy holidays! In the sidebar to the right, we’ve left a couple of electronic gifts for you: a link to a podcast of Deb’s “Crash Course: Characters” (powerpoint slides included) and a link to a post by Dana Stabenow about online book promotion. Last-minute shopping? You might consider a writing center gift certificate, or membership for a …
Happy Holidays, 49 Writers friends! This is a re-run from Dec. 23 of last year — the most appropriate Christmas greeting I could think of. Please feel free to share your holiday greetings with others in the comments. Original post: A few months ago, I was looking up some detail about Harper Lee’s life when …
With time to kill at various airport newstands this week, my eye was drawn to the current Economist lead story about what they’ve tagged “the U-bend of happiness” — the fact, noticed by economists only since the 1990s, that happiness drops around middle age and then picks up as people age. The idea of a …
Andromeda: The U-Bend of Happiness — For Writers? Read More »
No one said it would be easy. Whenever I think I’ve mastered this simple truth about writing, it seems I have to re-learn it. I like to think it’s because as we advance as writers, we embrace greater challenges, but in truth I know it’s also because sometimes we simply don’t know how we managed …
I suppose pay attention to detail and know what you’re writing about is not the advice most poets are looking for, so I’ll finish with a discussion of influences. I mentioned in an earlier post that after I wrote “earth’s inviting bend toward Asia” in “Poolshark,” I sensed it was pointing me in a direction …
