A Writer’s Happiness: Perspective Shifts In Search of Writerly Happiness by Andromeda Romano-Lax

With the New Year underway, you may be charging ahead with vigor or smelling the first smoky whiffs of resolution burnout. Either way, you may find yourself wondering, “Enough with all the lists and goals. Can’t I just be happy?” Chasing happiness is usually a futile endeavor, experts tend to agree, especially when one is […]

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Going Big: Audacious Goals and Important Writing Lessons from the Ironman by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Many of us have goals that feel so big, they’re almost shame-inducing. Why should a goal cause us shame? Maybe because we don’t want to admit our desires, especially if attainment seems unlikely. Maybe because we know that to achieve a big goal would be expensive or demand a lot of time away from our

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Spotlight on New Works: It’s a Crooked Road But Not Far To The House of Flowers by Wendy Erd

Return   A lone tree white with blossom Mountains fall toward blue Ridges recede into evening sky Whose sable brush strokes this softly? I count horizons home Soon we’ll be gone The road wet with rain.   Bumthang Valley, Bhutan   These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to

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A Hard Week with Lots of Reasons for Not Writing (Spoiler: I’m going to challenge you to write anyway) by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Today, I gave in. I admitted that this simply wasn’t going to be a very productive week for many reasons: Worry about the war in Gaza/Israel. I was good at not reading news first thing in the morning for a while, but now, with the moment of a ground offensive upon us, I keep looking

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Staying In It by Sean Ulman

An awesome Autumn tumbles on auspiciously in Seward. I am on the verge of climbing back into a novel. Nesting up the desk. Preparing to start most days there. Begin whittling away. I’m thinking about how we play the seasons up here. And the day-to-day. Flat water – go kayaking. Clear skies – backcountry multi-peak

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When Writing Honestly Makes You a Bad Wife and Mother by Summer Koester

“You always say the brutal truth,” my nine-year-old said the other day. “You really should try to do more ‘white lying’.” Here’s the thing: I’m a writer. Here’s the thing about being a writer: We can. Not. Lie. Well, maybe some writers can, but I can’t. Writers are supposed to be honest. Ernest Hemingway said,

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