For artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed. ~Balzac Once upon a time there was an easy order to the business of writing: create, pitch, publish, promote. A writer’s creative energy went mostly into her work, and the rest followed from there. That everything’s different is old news. Your work […]
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I apparently am one of the first three (and hopefully not the last) Alaskan screenwriters to be asked to be a guest blogger for 49 Writers. That being the case, I thought it might be expedient to start out by explaining the differences between screenwriting and other forms of writing. I’ll try not to bore
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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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Charles Wohlforth In combing our archives for great posts you may have missed, we came across this one by Charles Wohlforth. First published nearly five years ago, it seems especially timely as we launch a new year of literary enterprises. Writing a book that’s worth reading is hard enough. Doing it without going broke is
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Bill Sherwonit When talking about the writing life, I like to tell a story from my geology days, about a boss who absolutely loved the work we did. As I recount in Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness (2009, University of Alaska Press), “Inwardly I cringed when a crew leader named Joe talked about
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David Vann This interview first ran in 2009; since then, Vann has published several novels, all to wide acclaim. David, thank you for writing the best and most intricately structured book I’ve read this year – a truly amazing read that, by about page 135, I was looking forward to finishing so that I could
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