Christi R. Suzanne - Writer

Today’s post will be super short. I need to save all of my energy for revisions and a short road trip we are taking this weekend. I’m in the home stretch of my latest round of edits for my current work in progress. I only have about 50 pages left to edit, but they are the ones that need the MOST work! I know this and still, I procrastinate! I feel a little like this turtle . . . I wonder if I will ever truly get there. I don’t want to rush it, but I’m also starting to feel li

Last week the sun popped its head out here and there. I blame it on the energy those sun breaks gave me, but I felt like getting out in the world and supporting my friends and husband in their artistic endeavors. Granted, I’d try to do that no matter what the weather was like, but this week and into the weekend was a busier one than normal. The first event I went to was called Object Stories and was held at the Portland Art Museum. My friend Justin had an exhibit there and al

Okay, so I haven’t blogged in awhile, but today that changes! At least for this post, I’m doing for #RevPit Blog Hop. I love these events because I always meet at least one awesome writer virtually and keep in touch. I have always considered myself a generalist. I want to know a little bit about as much as I can, I would say everything, but that’s impossible, so—my favorite subjects: Dogs Animals Botany Collections & Collectors (matchbooks, spoons, thimbles, etc.) The oce

I first met Rebecca in an advanced fiction workshop at Portland State University in the Spring of 2002. I’ll never forget one of the scenes in a short story she had written. A woman is cutting up a cucumber for a salad that she is going to share with her boyfriend. She alternates between thick and thin slices, so she cuts up the cucumber in “thick, thin, thick, thin” slices. The details you put into that scene created an authentic story for me and I feel like that is translat