Category Archives: Books
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 Artist’s Way
I’ve started reading “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. Currently I’m on Week 3 and already seeing improvements. I have written every day for over a year now, but through the course I’m also completing the morning pages, artist’s date, and tasks for the week. Morning pages is a daily task where I write three pages in …
Cooking and such
There are 22 episodes on YouTube of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. If you’ve read the novel “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen or even seen the films, check it out. This is the first episode. I watch the new videos every Monday and Thursday. I’ve been busy moving into a new apartment and making new dishes, …
Forming better habits
I’ve been writing every day since January 2011. It is one habit I’m glad I have. On the other hand, I’m still working on forming the habit of reading at least one poem and short story a day. I’ve made progress where I will read at least one, maybe two, a week. So hopefully I …
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 …
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.
The end of pumpkin bread
I used the last of my pumpkin puree, so no more pumpkin bread until the fall. I finished reading Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Matt Bell’s “How They Were Found.” The short story I’ve been thinking about for months is making progress. It’s nice to have something on paper. And there’s a nice short fiction making progress. …
Noodles!
I wrote part of the short story I’ve been meaning to work on for months. Almost finished reading Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral.”
Suzanna and Writing 