Author Archive: Suzanna Anderson Creates
Finished another journal
I started writing in journals, at least more regularly, when I started at Bowling Green State University as a freshman. So I’m not surprised that I am starting a sixth notebook after four years. What surprises me is that I started the fifth journal near the end of June this year. It barely lasted six weeks. …
Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon
Finished reading “Newspaper Blackout” by Austin Kleon. For examples of blackout poems, click here. I took a pamphlet I purchased in New Orleans and had a blackout poetry contest with my friend. We sat down with three pages of text and a marker. She finished first. Still, it was fun to look at a sea of …
Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell
I finished reading Matt Bell’s “Cataclysm Baby,” published by Mud Luscious Press. Some of my favorite quotes (too many to list here): Only my wife cries. Only the birds caw, flap their wings. Only again a howl of spoor, cigar stutter. Hidden away in my house, my sons now celebrate their success: This is how …
The Letter Project–Letter to Theresa
This is a letter I wrote to Theresa, sharing the creative process of my current novel.
A Letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I noticed this letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Frances Turnbull on a friend’s Facebook. “You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have …
The Letter Project–Letter from Whitney
This is the letter I received from Whitney.
The Letter Project–Letter to Whitney
Check out the letter I wrote to Whitney.
New Sourdough Recipe and more!
I’ve made Sourdough bread a couple of times before, and in one of my new cookbooks I found a slightly different starter. So I tried it. And I made snickerdoodle cookies for the first time. Ever since I saw this video, I’ve wanted to make the brownies. I finally got to them, and they are …
Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July everyone! I like to watch “National Treasure” to celebrate. And the fireworks.
One Year Anniversary!
Well, folks, it’s been one year since I started this blog. Check out the first post here. In that year I’ve graduated from college and changed apartments. I completed NaNoWriMo for the third year in a row, this time with a sprained finger. I finished the second draft of my novel, and I’m working …
Suzanna and Writing 