It’s only the second day of National Novel Writing Month, but I’m off to a running start. As of 2 pm, I’m sitting on just over 5,500 words. Some of my fellow WriMo buddies have been congratulating me on the output, but I keep reminding them that I have a LOT of work to do thisContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: NaNoWriMo 2012, week 1”
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I am one lovely
I’m such a sucker for these things. I just love knowing that people who read this stuff appreciate me as much as I appreciate all the stuff I read. It reminds me that we’re all in this together, reading and writing. 🙂 So, huge thanks to Yawatta Hosby for throwing my name into the One Lovely BlogContinue reading “I am one lovely”
The last of the conversation with EJ Runyon
Originally posted on E.J. Runyon's Author Blog:
As a run up to National Novel Writing Month for 2012, we’ve been talking to writer, Samuel Snoek-Brown, my guest for the past three weeks. He wrote a short story that really caught me, and we’ve been deconstructing it and discussing it’s structure. I seriously recommend…
A Writer’s Notebook: NaNoWriMo prep and notecards
Yes, once again, National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner. Yet I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to participate this year. I had a great idea for a novel, but I’m not yet into it enough to plow through a rapid-fire month of 1,700 words a day. Plus, I’m teaching more this year andContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: NaNoWriMo prep and notecards”
More conversation with EJ Runyon
Originally posted on E.J. Runyon's Author Blog:
AS I INTRODUCED last week, I read an online story by my guest, Samuel Snoek-Brown recently. And it touched me so much, I re-blogged it on my site here. Here’s a link to it: Lightning My Pilot. I really thought so highly of it that,…
A Writer’s Notebook: haiku at moonrise
A few weeks ago, I attended the O-Tsukimi moonviewing festival at the Portland Japanese Garden. Among the various activities at the festival, the organizers had laid out small handmade notebooks and pens for us to write haiku about the moon. These are my haiku. Weathered paper moon floats, a child’s folded boat — unsinkable light.Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: haiku at moonrise”
A conversation between me and EJ Runyon
Originally posted on E.J. Runyon's Author Blog:
I read an online story by my guest, Samuel Snoek-Brown recently. And it touched me so much, I re-blogged it on my site here. Here’s a link to it: Lightning My Pilot. I really thought so highly of it that, as a ramp up to…
A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading (the results so far)
So, as I promised last week, I’m attempting a draft of something based on notes I took at a literary reading here in PDX last week. And, thanks to a conversation in the comments with EJ Runyon, I decided to try the story about rearranging furniture. She opened the door but it stopped on itsContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading (the results so far)”
New publication
Fiction Southeastis a cool literary magazine. They publish people like Robert Olen Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, CL Bledsoe. And now, me. My story “Consuela Throws Her TV Away” is in the fall 2012 issue, folks! Some of you might recognize the title: it originally appeared in the excellent Orchid: A Literary Review. But, sadly, OrchidContinue reading “New publication”
A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading
When I go to literary readings, I always take my notebook. Before I got my iPod, I took my notebook everywhere, but now that I can rely on the much slimmer iPod for emergency idea-jotting, I sometimes leave the thicker notebook at home. But at readings? I have to have paper and pencil to scribbleContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 