Category Archives: writing

New publication

I’m having a good day, literarily. A while ago, Midwest Literary Magazine accepted what is possibly my second-best story ever, and today, it finally appeared in the online issue. You can check out “A Few May Remember” — the opening story of my music-based story cycle, which is also making the rounds — in theContinue reading “New publication”

New fiction: the OBCBYL project, story #2

I dragged this week’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit story out to the last minute again, but that Cast Spells song was tricky. I think it turned out to be fairly cool, though. You can check it out here. Related articles A Writer’s Notebook: Still sittin’ in at OBCBYL (snoekbrown.wordpress.com)

A Writer’s Notebook: Still sittin’ in at OBCBYL

This week I’m writing another story for Ryan Werner’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit project. It’s supposed to be up on Sunday, but I got the text in at the last minute last week so it took a couple of days to appear online. I’m hoping to be a bit ahead of the gameContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: Still sittin’ in at OBCBYL”

New fiction: the OBCBYL project, story #1

So, as I mentioned in the last Writer’s Notebook, for the next month I’m sitting in at Ryan Werner’s music-to-fiction blog project, Our Band Could Be Your Lit. Today, the first of the new stories posted. Check it out. Related articles A Writer’s Notebook: Sittin’ In at OBCBYL (snoekbrown.wordpress.com)

A Writer’s Notebook: Sittin’ In at OBCBYL

As I did last October, I’m writing a story for Ryan Werner’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit project. This won’t be just this week, though. Ryan is busy compiling a story-collection manuscript (which I fully expect he’ll get published, though if his book appears in print before any of mine do, I might haveContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: Sittin’ In at OBCBYL”

A word about the delays in posts lately

Hello, gang. Chances are, if you’re one of the dozen people who subscribe to this blog, you might have noticed that some of the posts these past few weeks have been pretty long delayed in turning up online or in your RSS reader. That’s not WordPress’s fault. See, I’ve been on the road, driving fromContinue reading “A word about the delays in posts lately”

Small stone, Vol. 2, #13

Driving cross-country, state after state rolling away under the tires, the Rocky Mountains my constant companion out my driver-side window, I find in the dusk hours, with the sun away behind everything and throwing the world into silver silhouette, the moisture in the sky condensing directly on the peaks, I am no longer able toContinue reading “Small stone, Vol. 2, #13”

A Writer’s Notebook: an essay about Mom

My mother is retiring from 36 years of teaching, and to honor her, my sister, my brother, and I threw her a surprise party while I was down visiting during my PCA/ACA conference. My sister and my mom’s good friend Debbie, also a teacher, also organized a scrapbook for people to leave memories of myContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: an essay about Mom”