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Living Alaska, The Writer’s Life

Living the Life; does it Make You a Better Writer?

Stevenharrison
2 min readFeb 4, 2022

Living Alaska

Photo by Joris Beugels on Unsplash.com

I arrived in Alaska on a Bicycle. I stayed in Alaska to write a book and live a good life. I have written one book and currently working on another. Is my writing any different because I moved here? I do not think so, but it is possible. My blogs are different. I write about moving to Alaska from California. You could not write this if you were not living here. I write about the similarities, and the differences you encounter while living here.

The Writer’s Life

Photograph by Author, Ketchikan Alaska

To write stories, you must live the life. You must have experiences that are different than everyone else’s to write something worth reading. Do something epic and people will want to read about it. Do something ordinary and people will say “who cares”?

Wild Alaska

Jack London came to Alaska 1897; he did not come to write a book. He came to Alaska to look for gold but fell in love with the State and wrote “The Call of the Wild.’ He found his gold in the ink from his pen. I came to Alaska in 2021 during Covid19 and wrote “Perseverance”. I…

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Stevenharrison
Stevenharrison

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I Read, I Write, I Live, I Learn, I Am a Human Being.

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