Tag: writing
member name: Neva B.
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June 03, 2009 04:19 PM EDT --
The title came to me like phrases or entire lines of poetry sometimes come to me: it just popped into my head while I was driving. I get my best ideas at other inconvenient times, too, like when I’m . . .
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June 26, 2009 01:39 PM EDT --
Mara mentioned villanelles at Spoken Word last weekend. Here's a form I like: the pantoum.
It is a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
The book is wonderful!!! I started it Saturday night when I got home and was hooked. I should have been packing on Sunday but kept picking up the book instead!" - J.R.
"I have been reading non-stop . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
OK, writers. Here’s a stimulating exercise for you.
The next time you go on a trip, write down interesting street names and community names that you discover. Take those names and create a story . . .
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May 11, 2009 12:32 PM EDT --
Sometimes people who read my first novel -- St. Peter’s Monsters -- come back to me wanting to know if part of the book, or all of it, is real.
“Is the character Wren based on you?” they ask. . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:11 PM EDT --
My first book, St. Peter’s Monsters, is set in and around St. Paul and Castlewood, my home towns. When people from the area find out, they say “nothing ever happens here.”
I say, “Something . . .
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July 10, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
“Blacksnake.” Jimson Weed , vol. XXIV, new series vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2005).
Blacksnake
Coiled in my path like an ampersand.
My heart beats an ellipsis . . . Punctuates the . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Excerpt from “Sawmill Boys.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
For more information about Appalachian Heritage , Berea College's literary journal, and to order back issues, . . .
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June 10, 2009 12:36 PM EDT --
Excerpt from The Editorial Department's website regarding St. Peter's Monsters:
"Neva worked with TED Managing Editor Jesse Steele to make her book ready for publication, and while editing Jesse absolutely . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
"So tell me about your current writing project." "What's your next book about?"
Nothing breaks me out into a cold sweat faster than statements and questions like these. Why?
Superstition.
Normally . . .
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July 02, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
When author Alice Hoffman read Roberta Silman’s review of her novel The Story Sisters , the author was not pleased. The review wasn’t stellar but certainly it wasn’t crushing. Hoffman, . . .
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July 29, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
Thanks to Hal Hubener, director of Blue Ridge Regional Library, for inviting me to be on Cover To Cover, the library's weekly TV program broadcast live on BTW Channel 21 (Comcast Cable), Collinsville. . . .
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May 14, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
Listen to Accents every Friday @ 2pm EST on WRFL 88.1 FM Lexington or stream live from wrfl.fm .
This Friday, May 15, they’ll be reading a poem of mine, “Anoint Me.”
Also, the guest that . . .
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June 08, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
“It’s one of the best novels I’ve read that uses this area as the frame around the story. You captured the beauty of . . . Southwest Virginia in a love story filled with twists and . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:46 AM EDT --
I'm excited to have my work appear in the book anthology We All Live Downstream alongside work by:
• Earl Hamner (creator of the Waltons) • Ashley Judd • Robert Kennedy Jr. • Wendell . . .
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