Haha, more plant puns! You’ll be seeing a lot more of those, and I don’t regret it all. You might though. Like puns, poetry is another p-word that seems to make a lot of the general populace groan. “It’s too pretentious” (ooo look another p-word), “it’s boring,” “it’s just people with no rhythm attempting to …
One thing to consider before asking yourself or anyone else the questions I pose below is to think about what the purpose of art (in general) is. Even as I focus mainly on poetry, I’m sure there are as many different reasons for writing poetry as there are poets, but personally I find there are …
Let’s go back to the scene I painted in Packing for Writing, except now you have all the writing utensils, potable water and granola bars you could ask for and you used your vital common sense to inform at least one other person as to your whereabouts. Maybe you’re sitting on a downed log near …
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Imagine this: you’ve walked 15 km over multiple hours with a pack that is at least 50 pounds, you took the time to scan your site, pick the perfect place to pitch your tent or hammock, got some lake water boiling, freshened up, and finally, you excitedly pull out your notebook, set your only pencil …
An earlier draft of this was called “I’m Neither a Survivalist or a Creative Writing Professor,” and that still applies. Like with anything else, I’ll ask you to defer to experts for expert opinions while sharing my own personal experiences within nature and writing. I will tell you that I have been visiting drive-in campgrounds …
By simply asking Google to give a definition of “nature” you get two definitions, but if you dig a little deeper, not even straying from the first page of results, you can pull up the Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge, and Macmillan dictionaries that’ll have anywhere from three to nine definitions. Just from this knowledge alone, it’s …