Month: September 2024
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Inspiration: Neil Gaiman
I have admired Neil Gaiman for a long time, partly because we have similar hair and partly because while he was with Amanda Palmer, they presented as a sucessful artistic power couple that could do anything. Who doesn’t wish to be that? Oh, and he was a pretty good writer too. Gaiman’s works have also…
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Writing Habits
Words haunt the dreams of authors, asleep or awake. They are finnicky, sassy, and beautiful. So I want to share a little about how I capture them. Where: My favorite place to go, especially when starting a new project, is a cafe. Recently that place has been Peet’s: great coffee and room to wade into…
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Inspiration: Flannery O’Connor
Anyone who has ever taken a Creative Writing course knows the name Flannery O’Connor. She is known for her unique descriptions, gothic style tinged with absurdism, and stories that generally paint unflattering portraits of American life in the south. Ten years after first being introduced to her in undergrad, I read her collection, “A Good…
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Back to School
This last week was Back to School week, and it was a doozy. For context, I taught for the past five years at a small rural Oregon High School with 120 students. This year I’m teaching at a large urban California Middle School with nearly ten times the number of students. Maybe that’s all I…
Grant Pearson 