By Elizabeth Enslin on February 20, 2010
I work hard to polish the content of my literary nonfiction and poetry but don’t always give the same attention to titles….
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Posted in Recent, Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, Poetry, stories
By Elizabeth Enslin on January 1, 2010
I woke to the first day of 2007 in a treehouse in Northern Laos. That set a standard for New Year’s celebrations that I’ll probably never live up to again. It was just me, my partner Jerry, and all the wildlife of Bokeo Nature Reserve. We could have joined eight other travelers at the main treehouse for a night of revelry, but we longed for solitude….
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Posted in Eco Travel, Recent, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, photography, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on December 18, 2009
I have a new essay published in The Smoking Poet. It’s new in the sense of being recently completed and published but also in the sense of process….
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Posted in Publication, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged creative nonfiction, Writing, yurts
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 20, 2009
It’s easy for an emerging writer like myself to become obsessed with rejection. That’s mostly what comes back from all the packets I mail or documents I upload with a hopeful, electronic click….
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Posted in Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, gratitude, literary nonfiction, memoir
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 10, 2009
Growing food this summer in northeast Oregon, I relied on all that I’ve learned over the years from books, conversations, observations, and personal experience. But I probably heard Ama’s voice more than any other….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Publication, Recent, Sustainable Food, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, inspiration, stories, Sustainable Gardening
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 27, 2009
In grade school, I used to love those assignments where the teacher gave us ten vocabulary words and said we had to use all of them in a story. Those were good times, and I’ve already tried to revive them here in prose and poetry.
Today, the NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem invited us
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, nostalgia, passion, Poetry
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 25, 2009
I wrote (or rather, pirated) this for the “How-To” prompt at Read Write Poem with inspiration from Geoffrey K. Pullum’s recent essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Master the Art of Writer’s Block With Strunk and White
Avoid
a succession
of loose
sentences.
Use definite, specific, concrete language,
place yourself in the background
and make sure
the reader knows
who
is speaking.
Write in a way
that
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Posted in NaPoWriMo, Writing | Tagged creative nonfiction, Poetry, wordplay
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 10, 2009
It’s wonderful to have more and more pieces published online and in-print. But it also feels a bit disembodied. If I’m lucky, I may exchange a few emails or have a phone conversation with an editor. I never meet the others whose pieces share the same binding with me. It’s all understandable given how busy the world is, but still odd….
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Posted in Publication | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, nature writing, stories
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