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Green and Wildish Blog: Celebrate and Advocate for Our Earth

Find book reviews, green living resources and ideas, advocacy opportunities, personal essays, and spotlight on species and the natural world. Visit Green and Wildish. Go to Green and Wildish page and blog.

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Writing Blog: Write the Stories You Were Meant to Tell

Dive into your own stories. Find expert advice, author interviews, craft lessons and the proven paths to finding and writing your stories. Go to First-Person Writing page and blog.

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Amy Lou's Author Posts: Books, Courses, Writing, and News

Explore Amy Lou's writing life, articles, essays, reviews, teaching, and more. Also visit Amy Lou's author page and blog.

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Nature Writing: Why We Need It

Nature Writing: Why We Need It When I was writing Every Natural Fact, I spent hours beside a stream watching water froth over rocks. That riverine landscape wasn’t a … Read more

The Rivers Daughter, Book Review

The Rivers Daughter, Book Review A Memoir by Bridget Crocker, Spiegel and Grau, 2025, 294 pages. Explore on Amazon HERE. In The River’s Daughter, Bridget Crocker offers a … Read more

Mental Illness and the Outdoors a Book Review: Something in The Woods Loves You

Explore on Amazon Book Review of Something in the Woods Loves you Discover Healing in Nature Mental Illness and the Outdoors: A Journey Through Pain and Nature 2024, Timber … Read more

10 Gifts to Nurture Your Child’s Love for Nature

10 Unique Gifts to Nurture Your Child’s Love for Nature In a world increasingly dominated by screens, nurturing your child’s love for nature is more important than ever. Engaging … Read more

Award Winning Nature Books

Award-Winning Nature Books You May Have Missed Award-winning nature books worth checking out: Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher by Marina Richie, 2022, Oregon State University Press, … Read more

Before ‘Wild’ by Strayed there was ‘Tracks’ by Davidson

Amazon Link Long Before the Memoir ‘Wild’ by Strayed there was ‘Tracks’ by Davidson Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson, Knopf … Read more

Better Writing Practice: Original Phrasing

Ignite Your Writing with Fresh Original Phrasing All artists study and practice. Flex your skills in fresh, original phrasing. Let’s take a journey through ten mundane sentences, followed by … Read more

The Beginning of Your Personal Essay

Crafting a Captivating Opening for Your Personal Essay Welcome back to our series on crafting a publishable personal essay. Now that you’ve read classic essays and chosen a subject … Read more

Classic Personal Essays

Timeless Lessons: Learning from Classic Personal Essays With academic links to essays Let’s dive into some classic personal essays. These aren’t old and boring tales, nope! They’re helpful mentor … Read more

Personal Essay Subject

Find Your Perfect Personal Essay Subject Part of the First-Person Writing Series on Writing the Personal Essay Writing a personal essay can be an incredibly rewarding experience. You share … Read more

Three Personal Essays About Existence For Writers

Three Personal Essays About Existence And the Act of Reading and Researching to Stimulate Novel Thinking “What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, … Read more

Sentimentality in Writing

Embracing Earned Sentiments in Literature: Insight from Literary Masters-(and Me) Is Sentimentality in Writing Heartfelt or Hokey? Sentimentality in literature: it can make us reach for a tissue or … Read more

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