I am STILL working on the Alcan book, the one that I started about two and a quarter years ago. Part of me keeps thinking, Aren’t you done with that book yet? This is taking forever! But the other part of me keeps at it because I want to make this the best novel I […]
Guest post by Lynn Lovegreen: Response-Revise-Repeat Read More »
It was a summer morning. I took the jeans from my drawer, lifting them to my face, breathing the aroma of strawberries and hay that still clung to the knees. I pictured myself kneeling in the strawberry fields, earning money for our move to Alaska in 1964. I was in 4th grade when my family
April’s Guest Blogger Robert Davis Hoffmann: Longing and Belonging Read More »
I’m writing this on Easter Sunday, melting snow dripping off the roof as more falls. It surprises me how much snow still remains on a relatively small roof after several days of 40 degree sun, but there it is, drip-drip-dripping. What’s sifting down now might turn to rain. It might not. I’m in the self-pitying
Guest Blogger Erica Watson on Gratitude and Lineage Read More »
I know a dedicated woman who worked for years on her first novel. Over and over again she tried to sell it, always revising it to meet publishers’ expectations. Finally she burned it. She threw a big party, invited her friends over, served up food and drinks, and tossed her masterpiece into the flames, page-by-page.
Guest Blogger: Kim Heacox wants you to Set Your Fiction on Fire! Read More »
I’ve enjoyed this opportunity to blog again (and you’re not done with me yet, since March has a fifth Wednesday and I have a minor injury that will keep me sedentary for a little while, so I agreed to take it on). Thank you to 49 Writers for the change to get into blogging again,
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Why I’m Not Ashamed to Love the Internet Read More »
A work of art defines itself into being, when we awaken into it and by it, when we are moved, altered, stirred. If feels as if we have done nothing, only given a little time, a little space; some hairline-narrow crack opens in the self, and there it is. Jane Hirshfield In an improvisation class
Is the idea of digital publication seem like a cloud away to you? Have you heard the complaints of Kindle readers regarding misformatted kindle editions? Do you want to try and reach that digital reader audience? Then this workshop is for you. Let me tell you about myself to convince you. I am Lara Madden,
I promise not to say his name, but I trust you all know who I mean when I say that a certain public figure—well, maybe more than one—has forced (some) Americans to examine our individual and cultural relationships with the truth. This person’s relationship with “the truth” has been described as “loose,” as similar to
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Some Thoughts on “Truth” Read More »
My Spanish has been, functionally speaking, stagnant but functional for about ten years, since I spent six months in Argentina, followed by most of a decade in the linguistic wasteland of the Denali Borough. My occasional visits to Spanish-speaking countries/regions remind me how little I know, but also hint at the fluidity of self and
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: The Worlds of Words and Things Read More »
I’m sitting in window seat 15 E. My elbows are tucked tight against my side—my feet propped up on my carry-on bag crammed beneath the seat in front of me. After two weeks in the lower 48 on a book tour, you would think I’d be sleeping—or finishing Brendan Jones’ wonderful novel, The Alaskan Laundry.
Guest Blog by Debbie Clarke Moderow: On Being a Writer Read More »
