Emily Articulated: Eight years here
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist Someone recently asked how long I’ve been writing for the Reader. I started to answer with something vague like, “quite a while,” but then I put a number to it...
Tagged: writing
Mad about Science: Writing tools
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist One of my favorite phrases in my job is: “It isn’t science until it’s written down.” The written word is something truly unique to humankind, as far as we are...
A Few Thoughts… On writing for free
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist After 61 days away traveling the West — with 10 days on Maui thrown into the middle — it’s good to be home. I drove 7,434.8 miles, took way...
Cream always rises to the top
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve been a struggling writer most of my life, which is a funny statement from someone who owns a newspaper. It’s also the reason I went into the newspaper...
Community Writers Contest open to all genres, ages
By Reader Staff The annual Sandpoint Community Writing Contest is accepting submissions until 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, when sponsor Sandpoint Writers on the Lake will gather with creative minds of all ages...
Emily Articulated: Meaning-making
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff My writing has never been accused of being succinct, and I’ve been told a time or two that I can be a bit unclear. I get swept up in...
Proselytizing despair
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Pop culture started down a dark path in the early 2010s with the rise of shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, which have dominated the TV...
Sandpoint Monday Writers publish Sandpointed, a collection of poetry and prose
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Estimates place the Sandpoint Monday Writers’ origins sometime in the 1990’s, and at the hands of founding member Karen Seashore. The group has seen several iterations over the years,...
Mad About Science: Novels
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Libraries possess one thing in spades: novels. What exactly constitutes a novel? A novel is a narrative work of fiction that focuses on characters moving a plot over the...
Emily Articulated: Friluftsliv
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Have you ever considered how words make you feel? How some words are much more than mere definitions, but rather, have power to evoke strong imagery or to nestle...
