Silence amplifies every sound. It is an odd thing, but in the silence you hear the crunch each time a ski pole punches through the fresh, untracked whiteness into old and weathered snow beneath. You hear the hiss of skis on the surface of the buried trail, and a clatter when the skis cross the […]
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Thanks to Craig Medred, our February featured author, for this final guest-post. Writing should be easy work. Most of the time, you do it from a comfortable chair inside a warm building. You don’t have to worry about hitting your thumb with a hammer or sleet freezing in your eyes. There is a little danger
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Silence amplifies every sound. It is an odd thing, but in thesilence you hear the crunch each time a ski pole punches through thefresh, untracked whiteness into old and weathered snow beneath. You hear the hiss of skis on the surface of the buried trail, and a clatter when the skis cross the unseen ice
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Welcome and thanks to our February featured author, Craig Medred. The strange thing is to be asked to blog for a website for a bunch of people interested in writing. I’ve never thought of myself as much of a writer. A decent storyteller, yes, but a writer? Writers do fancy shit. They have a certain
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So much 49 Alaska Writing Center news each week: Only 10 days until the start of Bill Sherwonit’s class, “Adventures in Creative Nonfiction: The Art of the Personal Essay” (Monday nights 7 to 9:30 pm, Oct. 4 to Nov. 22) (see his recent guest post here for some ideas as to his approach) and only
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