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Jamey Bradbury | No Accounting for Taste: Finding Form in What You Like

October 10, 2019 / By 49 Writers

What we like can do so much for our writing, including challenging us to come at our fiction in novel ways. So don’t segregate your likes into the “for fun” column and forget about them when you get down to work. Investigate your likes. Interrogate them. Ask yourself: Why do you like what you like—and how can it help you become a better writer?

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Andromeda Romano-Lax | Page One Rewrite, Part Two

October 9, 2019 / By 49 Writers

Who among us doesn’t have a dead novel or memoir that resisted all CPR efforts? Who hasn’t wondered if some part of it couldn’t be saved or repurposed? With that in mind, I’ll share a few lessons I learned from my experience doing a “page one rewrite” of my novel currently titled “Annie and the Wolves.”

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Literary Roundup | August 24-30, 2018

August 24, 2018 / By 49 Writers

SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | July-Sept, 2018 | 49 Writers presents Danger Close Alaska: programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. One night per month for six consecutive months (one remaining), Danger Close will focus on food, drink, discussion, and writing on different topics, shared between veterans and civilians. Click here for more

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Lynn Lovegreen | Playing with Description

June 1, 2016 / By 49 Writers

A few years ago, I was trying to write about a character who was so real to me in my head, but I couldn’t get her on paper well enough to show her to my readers adequately. After several attempts, I took a long walk, pondering how to bring her to life. I went to

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Matt Komatsu – Danger Close: Alaska

December 14, 2015 / By 49 Writers

Three years ago, I was in the first firefight of my life and I didn’t fire a single shot. Not that I didn’t have the opportunity – I did. Twice, as a matter of fact. Which seems an odd thing to say about a six-hour periodic running gun battle. Also odd, I suppose, for that

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