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Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post My New Writing Friends in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
Being abroad with twelve other people is amazing. It forces you make friends in way you usually don’t: being trapped together. This trip had an extra twist: we got to write together too. But I don’t want to was […]
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Ryan Gulbransen wrote a new blog post in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
I like to consider myself as someone who does not have many fears. Yes there are some things I am genuinely terrified of, but other things that make me uneasy or on edge I like to try and overcome. Horses have […]
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Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post The Rock Library: Sam Schacht, Noah Coates, and Elizabeth Pellegrino in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
A warehouse of stone and metal houses a collection of historical value oft overlooked. Filing cabinets extend along the length of the one-room library in fourteen rows, not counting those running along the outer […]
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Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Risk, Reward: Hekla By Allison Bargabos, Ryan Gulbransen, Nicole Logrieco and Rachel Renders in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
Rubbing tired eyes, I move though my apartment after a long night’s rest. While sunlight warms my back, I turn to pour cereal into a bowl when I hear an announcement come over the news. “For those just tuning it […]
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Noah Zweifel wrote a new blog post The Tuya: By Tim Blomquist, Mark Ling, Emily Hanss and Noah Zweifel in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
Maria drove the Durango across the rocky Icelandic plain toward the mountain in the distance. She inspected it through her windshield as she approached. It wasn’t especially large, but its top was unusually fl […]
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Emily Hanss edited the blog post Transformation in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 8 months ago
Over the course of our three weeks in Iceland, we had countless discussions about what makes good writing as we sat in untraditional “classrooms” covered in moss and rock. One of the topics that we touched on frequently is that effective creative writing includes some sort of transformation. In order to engage a reader, there must be a change or…
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Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Sounds of Writing in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
New Oxford American Dictionary:
Write: (no obj.) have the ability to mark down coherent letter or words.
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Noah Zweifel edited the blog post An Ocean Between Us in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
The Republican National Convention has been underway for four days now.
I had to Google that. I set out to write a fairly BS’d post about the chaos of American politics and how it relates to the chaos of other countries’ politics and then tie it all together in some really deep and meaningful way and thought that would have been a decent…[Read more]
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Timothy Blomquist wrote a new blog post Get Out There in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
Sometimes you just need to get out there.
Especially when you’ve spent the last four months in a writer’s block-induced fury. You wrestle with the typical writer’s struggle–the need to constantly improve–and […]
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Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post From Hot to Cold and All the In-Between in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
In twenty-four hours I went from swimming in a pool, to walking on a glacier. In twenty-four hours I went from wearing a tank top and thin sweater shirt to three layers and a winter-time beanie. Within two hours […]
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Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Plot, enclosure, fishpond in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
Five minutes into writing for this prompt, and I’m thinking about fish tanks instead of place. So let’s talk about fish tanks. Wikipedia, the origin for most of my CNF inspiration, prefers to call fish tanks aqu […]
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Emily Hanss wrote a new blog post Writing and Place in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
When I think about writing and place, I think about a change in place. Some of the times when I have been most inspired to write were when I was experiencing a new place. Our surroundings have a signi […] -
Emily Hanss joined the group Sojournal 7 years, 9 months ago
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Ryan Gulbransen wrote a new blog post “Why does place matter to my writing?” in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
Place carries a strong influential factor with it. The context of a place can change the decisions we make about many aspects of our daily life. Consider the two images above, each place […]
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Noah Zweifel wrote a new blog post The Significance of Place in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
Place is typically defined as a point or position in space. Obviously, place is all around us. It is the backdrop of our existence. So if place expands infinitely and connects each of us, what separates this place […]
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Noah Zweifel joined the group Sojournal 7 years, 9 months ago
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Ryan Gulbransen joined the group Sojournal 7 years, 9 months ago
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Nicole Logrieco edited the blog post Why Place Matters to My Writing in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
The same walls, the same faces, the same everything, day in and day out, all equates to the same writing. With no change in environment or with no new concepts or ideas flooding in, it is hard to create something new. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can easily lead to repetition. Sure some places, cities, for instant with their h…[Read more]
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Rachel Renders wrote a new blog post why does place matter to my writing in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
Why does place matter to my writing. Because all writing has a place. The place you wrote, the place the writing brings you, the place the writing sits while waiting to be read. Place is what allows you to write […]
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Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post Why Place Matters in Writing in the group Sojournal: 7 years, 9 months ago
While looking for a little bit of inspiration for this first blog post, I simply googled the terms “place” and “writing” separately to see what might come up. “Place,” obviously, came up with pictures of […]
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