Not everyone who reads this blog also follows my other blog, Smile! (but really, why not?), so I wanted to post a short note here asking you to visit my other blog for an important message about how to help share a little happiness and cheer this holiday season. You can find the post inContinue reading “A cross-blog PSA”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
A Writer’s Notebook: a love story
The scenes below are from a story I’ve been working on for a long, long while. It’s on my computer in a folder labeled “TO FINISH THIS FALL.” Sadly, winter is just around the corner and the end of the year just a few weeks away, and I doubt I’ll find a satisfactory ending toContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: a love story”
Reading an era
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden Yesterday, I was reading a blog post from Annalemma that came through my RSS feed, and the author, Chris, was discussing his year in books. Chris had set a goal earlier in theContinue reading “Reading an era”
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“Metta photography.” Buddhist monks with cameras, Thailand, 16 & 17 November 2010. * For all my nerd friends, no, I didn’t misspell “meta-“. Click the links to see the difference. 🙂
New Writer’s Notebook posts
Okay, as promised, I’ve caught up with the Writer’s Notebook, and with two really fun entries. (They were fun to write, anyway. I’ll let you decide if they were worth the wait.) Also as promised, I’ve backdated them to fit where they belong, so you can find the first entry on December 3 and theContinue reading “New Writer’s Notebook posts”
Bad Writing
Point me to the advance ticket sales, please! Dan Chaon posted this on his Facebook page, which is where I found it. Sounds like a fantastic (and potentially depressing) jaunt into cold, blinding reality. A bit like “the Bulwer-Lytton contest meets 90% of all graduate writing workshops.” Which is exactly how I’d have pitched this.Continue reading “Bad Writing”
A Writer’s Notebook: found message
No intro this week. Just the story, and then, below, the exercise. The first things he did when he got home from work was shuck his coat and pull a beer from the fridge. It was cold and wet outside, the rain thin but icy, the kind that freezes in your hair and stabs downContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: found message”
Still waiting on the working computer…
I’m still waiting on my computer. The part necessary to get it back to full capacity is on order, but it’s taking extraordinarily long, so in the meantime I’m still working on my much older, much slower laptop. I’ve managed to post my Photo blog entries for last week, but it literally took the entireContinue reading “Still waiting on the working computer…”
A Writer’s Notebook: HerInteractive story
So, as I wrote a while ago, HerInteractive is sponsoring a story contest, and I decided to play along. This isn’t a story I’d submit (for one thing, it isn’t finished; for another, I broke the rules), but here’s what I’ve done so far with the instructions for the contest. Isn’t it marvelous to beContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: HerInteractive story”
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“National Day: 2 December 2010.” Street-side lights celebrating the United Arab Emirates’ 39th year as a nation. Muroor Street in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 1 December 2010.
Samuel Snoek-Brown 