2023

Going Big: Audacious Goals and Important Writing Lessons from the Ironman by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Many of us have goals that feel so big, they’re almost shame-inducing. Why should a goal cause us shame? Maybe because we don’t want to admit our desires, especially if attainment seems unlikely. Maybe because we know that to achieve a big goal would be expensive or demand a lot of time away from our

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Spotlight on New Works: It’s a Crooked Road But Not Far To The House of Flowers by Wendy Erd

Return   A lone tree white with blossom Mountains fall toward blue Ridges recede into evening sky Whose sable brush strokes this softly? I count horizons home Soon we’ll be gone The road wet with rain.   Bumthang Valley, Bhutan   These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to

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A Hard Week with Lots of Reasons for Not Writing (Spoiler: I’m going to challenge you to write anyway) by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Today, I gave in. I admitted that this simply wasn’t going to be a very productive week for many reasons: Worry about the war in Gaza/Israel. I was good at not reading news first thing in the morning for a while, but now, with the moment of a ground offensive upon us, I keep looking

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Staying In It by Sean Ulman

An awesome Autumn tumbles on auspiciously in Seward. I am on the verge of climbing back into a novel. Nesting up the desk. Preparing to start most days there. Begin whittling away. I’m thinking about how we play the seasons up here. And the day-to-day. Flat water – go kayaking. Clear skies – backcountry multi-peak

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When Writing Honestly Makes You a Bad Wife and Mother by Summer Koester

“You always say the brutal truth,” my nine-year-old said the other day. “You really should try to do more ‘white lying’.” Here’s the thing: I’m a writer. Here’s the thing about being a writer: We can. Not. Lie. Well, maybe some writers can, but I can’t. Writers are supposed to be honest. Ernest Hemingway said,

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