Alignments by Michael Engelhard
“Look at the boaters down there.” As a nonfiction writer with a passion for history and adventure, I sometimes tap webs that link individuals over ...
Birding and Wording by Sean Ulman
Don’t feel like writing today? Nor doing much of anything. Yet you know writing (something, [anything!]) is precisely the thing to do to get going. ...
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Lessons that Cross Genres from a Writer Who Leaped into Suspense Fiction by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Next week, my first suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, will be published. It’s my sixth novel and a big departure from my previous genres of ...
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Mao’s Head: The Quest for the Perfect Title by Michael Engelhard
“What’s in a title?” riffs David Petersen in Writing Naturally, his down-to-earth guide for aspiring nature writers. A good title, he answers himself, must grab ...
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Beware Rabbit Holes: Managing Bad Distractions and Good Temptations by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver Today I want to talk ...
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Behind the Scenes at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference by Erin Hollowell
The Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference was established in 2002. That’s twenty-two years of writers gathering on the shores of Kachemak Bay to learn from each ...
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The Role of Embarrassment in Horror by Leslie J. Anderson
We often pair horror with mortal fear—the sense that one’s life and limb is in danger, but let me tell you a story of true ...
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Haunted By Futility or Saving the World: Writing Climate Crisis by Erica Watson
Over the winter, I spent some time driving to an undisclosed location in the desert with two anarchist medics I’d not met before. The person ...
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Residency? by Ken Waldman
Inspired by a friend who applied for, and received, a three-month internship at a honeybee sanctuary during the pandemic, in early 2021 I applied for ...
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