Today is the day! Registration is now open for our fall classes in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Palmer. We may yet add some to the schedule and will announce them as details are finalized. Check here and on the website for the latest information. Here’s a quick roundup of topics and instructors: · Thriving in the […]
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CRITICISM Okay, so you’ve used your prompts and followed your sentences; you’ve harnessed the power of objects. Now you have a story you think is good, but you aren’t sure. What’s next? Inevitably, most of us turn to other writers when we need feedback about our work, either seeking them out individually or by joining
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“It should make you panic and ask yourself if the book can live up to this awesome query.” ~Cindy Dyson The Good Query My first book or two had already been published before I began to study in any real depth how a query letter should work. I was lucky – a friend’s editor picked up my
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My new novel, Turn Again, is about to be released upon the world. This is less a time for contemplative reflection of a job well done (I hope) than an occasion to lie awake at night staring at the ceiling in the two-am dusk, full of trepidation. The process of producing a book is often
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At last a preview of our fall workshop schedule, which includes classes in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Palmer. Registration opens on August 31, when you will find full details posted on the website. We are delighted that some of your favorite instructors are returning to teach again, and that we have the opportunity to welcome some
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Ed. note: Don’t forget that nominations for the next two-year state writer laureate are open until Aug. 31. The nomination form is available here. What a blast! Over the last two years, as our state’s writer laureate, I’ve had the privilege of talking up Alaska’s fine writers here at home and Outside. Readers are fascinated
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I think we can take as a given that the story we appear to be telling is just the vehicle for the “real” story we tell. Many people have said the same. This secret is the story’s engine: Your character’s hidden flaw, an ideal that drives her, some event which she must acknowledge, resolve or
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“Vigorous writing is concise.” ~William Strunk Jr. What’s the oldest book about writing that’s still on your shelves? Mine is Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, the third edition (it’s now in it’s fourth). The cover price (new) of $2.75 gives you some idea of how long I’ve owned it. “No book in shorter
1. Orientation- finding A way, not THE way to the end of the road, to McCarthy and then the way beyond bridges, backpacks, wagons bears, soap berries, bears, black ones moving across a river running upstream unrivering, returning to ice meat, groceries false promise where faded sign paint meets gray wood meet the old hardware
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