Brian Kornell at PANK Magazine interviewed me about my list/outline piece, "Listing to Love," which appeared in PANK's online July 2013 issue. Much like "My Writing Process," the blog tour this past spring, Brian's interview allowed me to describe how I create and then craft a piece of prose. Though I have my students reflect on their…
To my elementary school students, the writing process meant brainstorming ideas, mapping them out on a graphic worksheet, drafting (in pencil), sitting with me to revise and edit (add and erase), copying to nice paper (in pencil, then over again in “teacher pen”), drawing illustrations, and publishing (posting to a bulletin board). To my college…
I'm rewriting my manuscript. It's great! No, really, it's great. After one long round of submissions, a round I declared as over, somewhat arbitrarily, at the end of 2012, I debated. Send it back out? Or take another look? For me, taking another look meant re-reading, kind of liking some parts and kind of hating…
"Memory can be warped, it lies, it tells us what we want to hear. So part of this essay is a call to work beyond personal knowledge and thus beyond memory, to test that memory against other evidence in the world. Memory will rarely match that evidence very neatly, but this is a good thing.…
Suzanne Farrell Smith 