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A few practicalities re: Suriname trip planning (stage 1)

By Eileen On December 11, 2011 · 8 Comments

It all started with an innocent conversation with Anil in the hallway of the spacious and wood-paneled Vancouver Convention Center earlier this year at TBEX. We’d run into each other before in NY, Santiago, and then Vancouver. He’s one of those on-the-roaders, no permanent address people. Not me, got a depto which I [...]

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TBEX Narrative Writing Workshop Results

By Eileen On June 14, 2011 · 5 Comments

Getting to TBEX
(a prompt given in the Narrative Writing workshop run by Andrew Evans, Don George (both of whom write for National Geographic) and Pam Mandel from Nerdseyeview. The conference and the workshop are explained below.)

First there was a bus from downtown Santiago, onto which I had to Tetris my [...]

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Yard Office

Walk softly, and carry whatever kind of camera you like

By Eileen On June 7, 2011 · 28 Comments

Someone commented last year at TBEX (perhaps Don George, who’s coming back, yay for us!) the truism that although people (somewhat goofily) ask a photographer about his equipment upon seeing a particularly stunning shot, that no one asks a writer what kind of keyboard they use to produce their brilliant prose. I love [...]

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