I've been thinking lately about a conversation I had with Matt Miller, my teacher at Stanford over the summer, about the mind of the writing and how it differs from the mind of the author.  It started as a discussion of first sentences, and their importance.  We had just been required to write 10 potential first sentences for stories we were ( Read more... )

Finally, I can update the list of books I've read so far this year ( Read more... )

So this is it: I'm going. In two hours I'll be driving home ( Read more... )

Picture descriptions to be posted later; this is just to let me remember so that I can go back later and write up stuff. At the moment, I don't quite have time for it.

picture 01: in the room where the stegner fellows workshop

picture 02: bill in a toga

picture 03: the elusive black squirrel

picture 04: facepainted paula and the cotton candy

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So in an act of personal stupidity I have deleted all the pictures I took while I was here ( Read more... )

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  ((Only a few more days!))
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (Damn school, I barely have time for the requisite X-Files viewings!)
✓ I own lots of books.  (At least a bajillion and two.)

× I wear glasses or contact lenses.
× I love to play video ( Read more... )

So I was randomly searching my name on google (and finding nothing) when I then decided to search a name of a relative of mine way back, one Nancy Cunard. I learned that she existed last summer when we looked up the Cunard line genealogy in the Reading Room of the British Museum in London. So I searched her and found that she's got a wikipedia ( Read more... )