Rich Kovars
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Following along with that….
The choice of voice isn’t as important as sticking WITH that voice through the whole piece.
Rich .. I really like the “Unloading gear on the glacier.” shot .. Nice capture!
I like that one too. A ridge of Mount Hunter is in the back left.
Rich,
I really like the machinist box and the card cabinet, do you know where the cabinet came from.
MSMy wife got it for my birthday last year.
On the tarmac in Talkeetna Alaska (Talkeetna Air Taxi)
Loading Gear
Mountain airstrip. This is the airstrip on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier.
Unloading gear on the glacier.
Cockpit images (a few modern conveniences added – note the CD player) 🙂
Good compartmented hook boxes help a lot. You don’t need expensive ones. Craft bead boxes from Walmart work great. You can print out clear labels for the lids showing each hook type and size.
On the flashy side, Gerstner boxes look nice and are great for storing tools and small items.
Plastic storage bins from target are great for storing capes and skins. I bought the thread racks at Walmart in the sewing section for $8.99 each.
I bought the desk at an unfinished furniture store called The Mill Store. I’m still working on getting it finished. I drilled the hole over the center drawer and have a container in the drawer that catches the left over material. I don’t think I paid over $150 for the desk.
The rod tube holder was an end table/magazine rack (can be great for blanks too if you’re a rod builder).
Hopefully Neal will chime in here, he has some great ideas too.
Brett, I agree. One of my favorites is the Autumn Splendor from Charlie’s Fly Box.
Aaron,
As much as you travel around, it shouldn’t be too difficult to schedule a couple of masters to give you the test.
–R
(Who knows: one of your essays might turn into an idea for a book.)
As to the many I’s in your story: Once you’ve established you’re writing in the first person you can eliminate many of them. For example: If you have a sentence like, I saw the sunlight crash, then shimmer on the water -forgive my cliche – change the sentence to, the sunlight crashed then shimmered on the water.
Randy Kadish
Sound advice here.
Rich I don’t mean to argue with you but what book of poetry are you referring to? Amazon has “Fly-Fishing the High Country” as Gierach’s first, as does my copy of it somewhere on the jacket.
“Book Description
Flyfishing in scenic and remote mountain waters is a special kind of fishing, explored in depth by veteran fly fisher John Gierach. Along with Fly Fishing Small Streams (0811722902), this guide, Gierach’s first book, now in print with Stackpole Books, explains how to find the best waters and how to fish them to the best advantage.”http://www.amazon.com/Flyfishing-High-Country-John-Gierach/dp/0811731723
Did he self-publish one or something?
Zach
Zach
It was a small press run and not a lot of people know about it. Signs of Life is the title (1976-77). It is really hard to find. It usually runs in the hundreds if you can find it. Alibris has one listed at $250. It says it was published by Cherry Valley Editions. ISBN:0916156265
High Country came in ’84 and Trout Bum in ’86 (via Amazon).
As an interesting side note, I see on Mike Clark’s (South Creek Limited) store page he lists Motel Thoughts In the 70’s by Gierach. I found only one other reference to it as a book of poetry published in 1976 by Lodestar Press, so maybe High Country was actually his third. He has mentioned Signs of Life in interviews before, but never this last book (maybe for good reason 🙂 ).
–Rich
Very, very few writers get their start writing first person essays. Those who do almost invariably write the essays in the form of books. They are very rarely as young as you or me. Gierach got his start with “Fly Fishing the High Country” (not “Trout Bum”) – which is really a how-to book. Ernest Hemingway got started in newspaper beat reporting in Kansas City if I recall my college seminar correctly. Ultimately he was a war reporter, from which we get novels like “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” George Orwell, the best essayist of the 20th century bar none, likewise was a reporter. He also lived a true deadbeat life at times in order to get material (see “Down and Out in Paris and London”).
Gierach did too.
Some interesting stuff here. I have been wanting to become a CCI as well but find it difficult to find the time when the weather is a little more permitting as I am usually guiding during that time. I hooked up with a CCI last year who is also a Fishing Outfitter and we quickly became friends. Now after reading all of this stuff I am confused to whether or not I could become certified. 🙁
Aaron were you able to get your masters from your buddy or not?
Does anyone have any advice for me here?
Joel
Hey Joel, you’d be fine.
I’m assigning a significant selection from Claire Kehrwald Cook’s Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing.
I’m going to check that out.
