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In this new series we look at field notes from well-known writers, then ask how their writing and creative process takes shape. We begin with novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and NPR commentator Mary Sojourner.
Field Notes:
and so it begins. I drop off a sack of clothes at the Animal Shelter second-hand store. The worker closes the door. A moonstone lies in the crack between the door and driveway. I head back to my car. There is a word in my bones, then another and another.
moonstone
go
back
I walk to the door, crouch and pick up the glowing lozenge. It is a glass pebble. Perhaps a woman poured a bag of them into a glass container. She threaded the stems of three perfect iris through the pebbles. When she poured in water, the pebbles shone bluepinkyellow. Iridescent bubbles gathered on the iris stems. She heard a tap on the back door.
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[This was an excerpt from a recent article at The Source Weekly.]
Community Connection
For more of Mary Sojourner’s writing, please visit her blog, Wordsmithing.
Mary Sojourner
Mary Sojourner, NPR commentator, is the author of the novel Sisters of the Dream; short story collection Delicate; essay collection, Bonelight: ruin and grace in the New Southwest; memoir/rant/mediation, Solace: rituals of loss and desire; and the forthcoming novel, Going Through Ghosts, U. of Nevada Press, Spring 2010. Writing is her demanding ally---and her lifeblood.
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