Just Do It
Often, before I go hiking, snowshoeing, kayaking, or scuba diving, I ask myself whether the activity will be worth the effort of...
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FREE RANGE WRITERS
Dave Butler
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Pamela Beason
Gregory Zeigler
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
African lions—fearless and powerful.
By Chuck Schneebeck During the last two holiday seasons, the amazing photography of Chuck Schneebeck has greatly enhanced our blog. The...
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- Jan 8
- 3 min
Entitlement
By Dave Butler One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, War and Peace, The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice....
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- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Season's Greetings from your "Mother."
Courtesy Chuck Schneebeck Photography. (www.tetons.photography) “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see...
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- Dec 10, 2022
- 3 min
Fencing In, Fencing Out
A recent study, “Fenced In: How the Global Rise of Border Walls Is Stifling Wildlife” concluded that more than 60% of mammals and 71% of...
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- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
Travel is Medicine.
By Gregory Zeigler Mount Rainer from Longbranch, WA on the Key Peninsula. "I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your...
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- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
Go Slow, Avoid Lakes and Learn to Hide: Harvey Manning and the Arts of Guidebook Writing
Editor's Note: we at Free Range Writers are pleased and honoured that Katie Ives has agreed to post for us this week. Katie is the former...
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- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Dangerous Errors in Outdoor Adventures and in Publishing
A few years back, I attended a seminar on the most common errors people make in attempting outdoor adventures, aka “How Fools Get into...
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- Oct 16, 2022
- 4 min
5 + 5 =Tension: a discussion of genre formulas.
by Gregory Zeigler This dramatic photo taken in Yellowstone National Park by Paul Sihler is not only stunning but captures the sense...
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- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
The Slush Pile
By Dave Butler I recently returned from my first in-person writer’s conference (this one, the Wine Country Writers' Festival in...
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- Sep 18, 2022
- 3 min
There's Always Hope - A Guest Post from Author Kathy McIntosh
In April, I joined a panel of writers of environmental mysteries at the Left Coast Crime 2022 mystery convention. Our books address...
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- Sep 5, 2022
- 4 min
Channeling my inner Susan: creating strong female characters.
by Gregory Zeigler A novel about a real life strong woman—Beryl Markham. As is the case with most authors, I have done many presentations...
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- Aug 21, 2022
- 4 min
Message in a Novel
By Dave Butler Can fiction – particularly eco- or environmental fiction – be too political? Recently, I had the honour of joining authors...
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- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
Desperate to Get Out
I recently told my sister that after several weeks of attending conferences and having relatives visit, I was feeling desperate to get...
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- Jul 23, 2022
- 12 min
Old Faithful: A hopeful look into the heart of Yellowstone 100 years from now. By Gregory Zeigler
Evening light on the Absaroka Range. (Photos by Paul Sihler) Day One, Monday Evening Dear Mum and Da, It’s your “little girl” checking...
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- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Devil in the Details
By Dave Butler Because Pam, Greg and I write in the genre of eco-fiction, I want to focus this week on the importance of getting details...
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- Jun 27, 2022
- 3 min
Celebrating the Non-Human
My life has been particularly chaotic in the last week. June 24-26 was the Chanticleer Authors Conference here in Bellingham, which was...
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- Jun 12, 2022
- 2 min
American Dirt: A Must Read.
American Dirt: A Must Read for all North Americans who Read. “I want to convince people that their way of thinking is out of date and use...
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- May 29, 2022
- 4 min
Imaginary Peaks: A Book Review
By Dave Butler “To a large extent, a mountain is a mountain because of the part it plays in the popular imagination.” American geographer...
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- May 14, 2022
- 2 min
Story First - Guest Post by Scott Graham, Author of the National Park Mystery Series
For a decade now, I’ve had a terrific time researching and writing my seven-books-and-counting National Park Mystery Series for...
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