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Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:33:58 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Kelly Ramsdell Fineman:
Bruce said, "“A celebration of the senses on the sand and by the shore.” That’s how a Kirkus reviewer describes the success of children’s author and poet Kelly Ramsdell Fineman’s first picture book, At the Boardwalk. “The oceanside boardwalk..." more
Sunday, May 22, 2016 6:31:45 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Making Space:
Bruce said, "One of the joys of writing is reading—soaking up words, absorbing sentences, inhaling paragraphs, stanzas, lines, metaphors, rhymes—and over the years I’ve watched as books in our house have piled into stacks on nightstands and tables, on the..." more
Saturday, May 21, 2016 6:41:24 PM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Jacqueline Jules:
Bruce said, "When Jacqueline Jules was in third grade, she recalls, her teacher handed out pieces of construction paper and asked the students to write what they wanted to be on the paper for a bulletin board project. That was the moment when Jules,..." more
Sunday, April 17, 2016 5:24:03 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Screen or Page?:
Bruce said, "Now that I have a Netflix account (thanks to my daughter's insistence), it's easy to select a movie and watch it in the chair where I used to spend all my time reading. So much of my day is often spent online--not just writing but..." more
Sunday, April 3, 2016 5:27:21 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: JoAnn Early Macken:
Bruce said, "If you visit the workspace of Joann Early Macken, you’ll find it filled with many of her favorite things, including a lucky pink pig that was a gift from Norma Fox Mazer, one of her advisors at Vermont College, where Macken earned an MFA..." more
Sunday, March 20, 2016 5:19:53 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Falling In Love With Stories:
Bruce said, "Do you remember when you first fell in love with stories? When I was a young boy—before I fell in love with reading, before I sat in front of the TV for hours watching movies—I loved sitting in the kitchen on Sunday mornings listening to my..." more
Sunday, March 6, 2016 6:13:30 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: David Lubar:
Bruce said, "David Lubar grew up in Morristown, NJ, and remembers spending lots of time in the school library, as well as in the town and county libraries. It was his mother, a school librarian, who introduced him to science fiction authors like Robert..." more
Sunday, February 21, 2016 6:49:16 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Waking before dawn:
Bruce said, "Each morning before dawn I wake in fear. Today will be the day I discover I have nothing to say. Then I remember. Fear is an illusion. A shadow on the wall. And I step out of bed. And my feet feel the firmness of the earth. And I remember..." more
Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:22:06 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Gigi Amateau:
Bruce said, "Surrounded by deer, foxes, raccoons, and a host of other forest creatures who inhabit the woods near her house, Gigi Amateau lives on a tributary of the James River called Rattlesnake Creek and finds inspiration for many of her stories by looking..." more
Sunday, January 17, 2016 5:35:55 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled A Dry Heart:
Bruce said, "Failure to sell your work, and the rejection that accompanies such failure, can eat away at your heart until there’s nothing left but a shell pumping blood but no longer pumping words. A dry heart. It can happen to you if you’re not careful..." more
Sunday, January 3, 2016 5:50:27 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Julie Larios:
Bruce said, "Julie Larios suspects her love of writing may be oddly linked with a love of the paraphernalia of writing. “I have an inordinate love of pencils and pencil boxes, post-it-notes, old fountain pens, vellum, architectural paper, school notebooks,..." more
Sunday, December 20, 2015 5:45:32 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled On Outlining:
Bruce said, "So, okay, it’s not a secret. I dislike outlining. Did I say dislike? That's a bit of an understatement. Ever since I was a student in high school and one of my English teachers required that we create an outline as a way to write..." more
Sunday, December 6, 2015 6:26:13 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Mary Ann Rodman:
Bruce said, "“I come from a family where family stories are told over and over,” says Mary Ann Rodman, who grew up in Washington, DC and lived in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Mississippi in the 1960s (the setting of her autobiographical novel, Yankee..." more
Sunday, November 22, 2015 6:31:15 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Keep the Pen Moving:
Bruce said, "<!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 1 263 1504 wordswimmer 12 3 1764 14.0 <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ..." more
Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:50:30 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Fishing (For Words):
Bruce said, "There’s a lake about two miles away from our house, and, after sitting at my desk all day, I felt the need to stretch my legs. So, I put a notebook and a few pens into a shoulder bag and went for a ramble, as they say in the UK. At the..." more
Sunday, November 8, 2015 5:56:24 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Jeannine Atkins:
Bruce said, "The woods in Sterling, Massachusetts, where Jeannine Atkins grew up, stimulated her curiosity in many ways. She wondered about the things that might be hidden under rocks, and years later such wondering led her to write Girls Who Look Under..." more
Sunday, October 25, 2015 5:01:22 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled When Autumn Comes:
Bruce said, "When autumn comes, nature begins to slow down, and my brain wants to go into a deep sleep. It’s the time of year when some of us come up against a wall and can’t see beyond it. Where does the wall come from? Why does it appear? How do..." more
Sunday, October 11, 2015 6:06:15 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled One Writer’s Process: Fran Manushkin:
Bruce said, "Before becoming a writer, Fran Manushkin had the idea that books came to life inside an author’s head fully made and that an author simply wrote them down “lickety split.” But then she started writing and discovered that notion simply..." more
Sunday, September 27, 2015 5:13:06 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled On Writing: John LeCarre:
Bruce said, "The other day I picked up John LeCarre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, his best-selling novel about spies and espionage during the Cold War, and started reading the introduction that he'd written in 1991 for the book, which first appeared in..." more
Sunday, September 6, 2015 4:39:53 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled How’s the Water?:
Bruce said, "The heat in Florida is unrelenting at the this time of year, pressing down over everything like a steamy blanket and making the air so thick and humid that it feels like you’re trapped inside a never-ending steam bath. It’s not only the air..." more
Sunday, August 16, 2015 4:51:55 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled The Only Thing That Matters:
Bruce said, "I sent off another story yesterday. Now I’m wondering if I sent it to the right place. It’s how the self-doubt starts. In a few weeks, if I don’t receive a response, the question will shift in a subtle way. It will become something very..." more
Sunday, July 12, 2015 4:18:47 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Ready. Set. Go!:
Bruce said, "Twenty minutes each morning—whether I’m ready to write or not, whether I’m sleepy or awake, whether my back aches or my fingers hurt—I write. Fast. Nonstop. For twenty minutes. It’s like digging fast. Just digging. Taking a..." more
Sunday, June 14, 2015 6:19:17 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Coming Up Empty-Handed:
Bruce said, "It took all day to write something that I didn’t even know I wanted to write. I sat at my desk for hours trying to think of something to write and at the end of the morning I left an unmarked sheet of paper on my desk, the same blank sheet..." more
Sunday, May 24, 2015 5:06:00 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled Swimming in the Dark:
Bruce said, "For years I’ve held an image in my head of a plant growing toward the light as a way of understanding the writing process. It was an image that a beloved writing teacher shared with me years ago, and the image of my work growing toward the..." more
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:51:10 AM
Bruce Black wrote a blog post titled On the Edge of Becoming:
Bruce said, "Sunday morning sunrise and the world awakens again, the silence broken only by the sound of your pen scratching the surface of the page. It's the same each morning. You don’t know what your voice sounds like until you take the..." more