A new semester.

I have started my second semester of graduate studies for my MA in English (Creative Writing). I am pumped about my classes and I am writing every chance I get.

What is my writing process?

Well, if I have an idea for a poem (even if it's not fully formed), I grab my notebook aptly titled Brandy's Poems:  Snippets, WIPs, and Ideas and write it down. It doesn't have to be polished, it doesn't have to be perfect. Then, I let it sit for a few days and go back to it. It is almost like going back to a place you haven't been to for a while...you see it through different eyes.

Then I revise, and I edit. I leave it alone again, and then I come back to it. I keep tinkering with it and edit it until it's the poem I want it to be.

I'm curious to hear about your writing process...how do you write? Where do you like to write? I'd love to know. :)

When it rains, it pours.

In the best of ways.

I truly feel blessed. In addition to my poems at Dead Snakes, I have work featured at Versewrights (work that's been previously published and a few new ones), and will have a brand spankin' new poem of mine, "Powerball", featured in the September issue of BareBack Literary Magazine. 

Persistence pays off.

I'm legit, yo! :)

More of my poems have been accepted for publication! Three of them, in fact.

You can find them here:

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2014/08/brandy-clark-three-poems.html

And the second of my poems at The Camel Saloon has been published:

http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2014/07/last-mug.html