Author Archive: Suzanna Anderson Creates

The Letter Project–Letter from Whitney

Look at what I received in the mail from Whitney.  

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Prompt–Sunday, May 13

Since I’ve discovered the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, I’ve thought about the process of adapting a novel into a vlog. What story would you adapt? What would change? For this exercise, I would adapt “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole. Ignatius writes letters to Myrna and writes his histories and the working boy stories. What …

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Post-graduation

I am officially an undergraduate graduate. Since the ceremony, I have slept, ate, and rested like a normal person, and watched several films I’ve never seen before. I have also become addicted to the Lizzie Bennet Diaries on YouTube, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Check out the first episode.

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Prompt–Monday, April 30

NPR has Three Minute Fiction, which you can check out here: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/29/151647902/three-minute-fiction-update-judges-favorites What line would you be tired of after reading it 6,000 times? Write a sentence to begin a three-minute fiction, which is about 600 words. Then write the story. Some sentences to get you started if you’re stuck. The city is burning. She …

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The Letter Project–Letter to Whitney

In New Orleans I found one blue mailbox on the sidewalk, but I couldn’t remember where it was to send more letters. So fun fact: this is the only letter I postmarked from New Orleans, at least on this trip.  

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Prompt–Monday, April 23

Who is the owner? What’s his/her story? Why do does he/she only have one mug,  a spoon, and two knives? Write.  

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Four and Twenty Publication

Check out my poem “Venn Diagram” in Four and Twenty. http://4and20poetry.com/2012/04/17/april-2012-%e2%80%a2-volume-5-%e2%80%a2-issue-4-double-issue/

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Trip to New Orleans

I apologize for my hiatus. Last week I went to New Orleans for the American Copy Editor Society conference. I’ve never been to Louisiana or on a plane before. From top left clockwise: Klee by Donald Wigal; The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor; Collected Stories of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers; Louisiana Folktales: Lupin, Bouki, …

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The Letter Project–Letter to Theresa

Look at the letter I sent to Theresa about New Orleans.  

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The Letter Project–Letter from Whitney

This is what I received in the mail today.  

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