I spent a rainy evening floating alone through the streets of downtown Sydney, letting my feet carry me away from the hostel where I spent half a dozen restless nights surrounded by strangers. My hands were balled up into fists and shoved farther into my pockets than the pockets wanted to hold, showing the shapes of my knuckles stretched out in ( Read more... )

When life grabs you by the balls, you damn well better listen.
Nearly a month ago now, I headed to the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis to catch dinner and a movie. The neighborhood is only a ten-minute drive from my apartment, and it's one of the trendier, hipper neighborhoods in the Twin Cities -- not quite with the downtown feel, but still very ( Read more... )

I felt like a little kid pressing my face against the window of a pet store. It wasn’t a puppy or a hamster on the other side of that glass. It was Memphis. Only a thin invisible barrier stood between me and the untouchable.

Well, okay, maybe that was a little extreme, but as I sat in the back seat of the taxi cab, staring out at the buildings ( Read more... )

I recently took a hiatus from the computer for a week, spent a lot of time reconnecting to writing with just a pen and notebook. Came back to the world of RPing with a new vigor -- hence this awesome thread opener for Brady. I'm in love with the way everything is worded, plus I just love relating to Brady in general. As always, I love to hear what ( Read more... )

Getting to knooooow you, getting to know aaaaall about you.Part II of the work for my ENG 309: Creative Writing In The Community class. This is my collaborative piece, the one I met with my writing partner, Ginny Prime of Hillcroft Services, Inc (a woman with a mild mental disability; Hillcroft specializes in managing group homes for those with ( Read more... )

Some words sound so much better when you read them aloudThis is the first of two final drafts of my project from my ENG 309: Creative Writing In The Community class, where each student was paired up with one of four local agencies in Muncie to do both individual and collaborative works for limited publication through Ball State's campus, a project ( Read more... )

Same assignment, different story.
Again for Nonfic III, we read Abigail Thomas' book Safekeeping and had to choose an element of craft to try to recreate. One of the driving forces Thomas’ book is the intertwining relationships between the narrator and her family. Thomas shows these relationships through a particularly distinct style, which ( Read more... )

'La Bohemia' is my anti-drug.
Okay, okay, so I joined an online RPG (based off of RENT, if you must know... and yes, I realize just how dorky that makes me), and in one thread my character, Jack, gets up at an Open Mic Night and reads a bit of poetry/prose that he's written. Well I actually had to make up a piece for him to perform, and it turned ( Read more... )

For ENG 406, Creative NonFiction Writing III: We read Bob Dylan's memoir Chronicles: Volume One and had to pick out some element of craft and try to recreate it in a creative writing response. I chose to show his loose association ramblings, as well as a description of the ordinary and the routine, which kind of shows that famous people were at one ( Read more... )

( Black Sweatshirt -- Just accepted to be published in Ball State's BROKEN PLATE!!! )