Wilderness Without and Within: Writing to Interplay with Place

Write about spaces that intensify awareness

—spacious bodies of water, a desert, mountains,

prairies, a snowy forest—any place where we drop

pretenses and sense the rudiments of ourselves.

Explore the nature of the place and the interplay

of ourselves with it; and as we look at the

elements of landscapes, we’ll consider our

fundamental feelings.

Nan Phifer, assistant director of the

Oregon Writing Project at the University

of Oregon in Eugene, is the author of

Memoirs of the Soul, published

by Writer’s Digest Books