I really dragged my feet finishing this week’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit story, but I explained why over at the OBCBYL site. Of course, the story itself is about the difficulties of writing — and how obnoxious writers can be — so maybe that’s explanation enough. This is the penultimate story, folks, so checkContinue reading “New fiction: the OBCBYL project, story #4”
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New fiction: the OBCBYL project, story #3
This week’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit story is about a dummy. Take that any way you want to. Also, Dentonites and especially my old pals from UNT: Remember Slobberbone? Yeah, they’re cool. I hope my story did them justice. You can check it out here. Related articles A Writer’s Notebook: Becoming a couch potato at OBCBYLContinue reading “New fiction: the OBCBYL project, story #3”
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)
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: News stories
Believe it or not, this is a true story. Sort of. I remember studying H. P. Lovecraft in college, though at the time we studied him as literature, not gospel. I was enchanted by his name, Lovecraft, as though it was a commandment: here is the craft of writing fiction, and you shall adore it.Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: News stories”
A Writer’s Notebook: a reading
I had thought to sneak in a little writing this week during the PCA/ACA conference I’m attending, and believe me, I’ve written PLENTY, but very, very little of it has been creative in the strictest sense. It’s mostly conference notes. So I don’t have a Writer’s Notebook today. I did, however, read a piece ofContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: a reading”
New fiction from Bill Roorbach
Bill Roorbach has announced on his blog, Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour, that his new novel, The High Side, is scheduled to appear in print next spring. I can’t tell you how excited I am by this: I’ve long been a big fan of Bill — his writing but also his nature, because he’s oneContinue reading “New fiction from Bill Roorbach”
A Writer’s Notebook: “mentor texts”
I think I might accidentally have started a new novel. It doesn’t look like much in this exercise, I admit, but believe me, it’s frighteningly large inside my brain. I don’t have time for this right now, frankly, and I’m going to have to put this on hold for a while (I might save itContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: “mentor texts””
A Writer’s Notebook: dream journal
I can’t explain why, but I woke up with this in my head: Like everyone else, the caricaturist had good days and bad days. On good days, the people would laugh and clap their hands, touch his shoulder, would point to their hairdos or their cocked grins and say, “Oh, that’s me exactly! That’s meContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: dream journal”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 