I drove up to Dayton for a couple days last week to attend a writer’s workshop. John Scalzi had mentioned on his blog that he’d be talking about writing fiction and since I like both his novels and his book on writing, I figured it would be worth the drive up just to hear that [...]
Archive for April 2007
Thoughts on the Writer’s Workshop in Dayton
April 16, 2007White Castle – wow
April 15, 2007I’d never eaten a White Castle burger before today. We don’t have them in East Tennessee now and while there are locations in Middle and West Tennessee, I don’t recall them being there when I was growing up or going to college the first time. Still, as someone who listened to the Beastie Boys in [...]
Why is it cold in April (in Dayton, Ohio) ?
April 13, 2007The next time someone says to me, “Have you checked to see what the weather will be like in (the place I’m going for a couple days),” my response will be, “Why no, I haven’t. I’ll do that right now.” Unfortunately that won’t do me any good on this trip. My little weather program (Meteorologist) [...]
Bring on the poetry…
April 4, 2007Last Friday I attended a reading put on by some of the graduate students in UT’s Creative Writing program. Steve Sparks and Jesse Graves read poetry and Kate Williams read an excerpt from her novel. All three did a fantastic job. That same night, my friend Caroline headed over to UNCA to see Mary Oliver. [...]
