About Me

Welcome!

My name is Brystan (just like Kristin but with a 'B') Strong, sometimes I write under B.G.Strong. I write short stories, and am working on my first YA novel.

While I don't like to box myself into a genre, I would guess the closest genre to how I write is Horror. I like to make readers feel uneasy, and thrilled.

If you want to see what I have published, you can check out my website: here.

However, I haven't written ALL dark things. I did self-publish a children's book. You can buy it on Amazon. If you do, please leave a review.

I got my BA in Creative Writing from Southern Oregon University, and am currently finishing my Masters in Library Information Science from San Jose State University.

I live in Southern Oregon.

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Coffee Shop Chat!

What I Did This Week... This week has been super busy! Sunday: Had a meeting at Job #2 suuuuper early in the morning (I am NOT a morning person), and then it was off to church for the Palm Sunday service, which was awesome. The church was freshly decorated for the season, and the children had a Palm Parade, where they walked around the block, waving their new palms around. Super cute. Then, I went to the coffee shop to TRY to get some writing in (that didn't go too well, but I had a delicious pot of green tea). And then I came home and worked on school work (I get my Masters in 2 months!). Workout and Meditation. Monday: Worked at Job #1 (the library), ran errands, workout and meditation. Tuesday: Worked at Job #2 (corporate job, ew). Had a TERRIBLE day, but that was made better by these beautiful flowers from my SO: Wednesday: Worked on my Grad Portfolio ALL DAY (Did I mention I get my Masters in TWO MONTHS??) ...

Hold on to your butts, this is a long one.

I've been thinking a lot lately about creative nonfiction - and that's probably due to the fact that for the first time in 7(?) years, I have been inspired by people. Real life people. I took my first creative nonfiction class in community college because it was a term I had never heard before. How on Earth could an essay be creative? But it opened up this new world to me, a world of memoir and a level of thought that I needed and ended up thriving on. the first creative essay I wrote landed me a spot reading in a swanky art gallery surrounded by middle aged, well dressed academics drinking wine (which was, and still is my measurement of success). I continued taking creative nonfiction as a writing major at Southern Oregon University. I got A;s, I was told I could easily be a biographer or a memoirist, or essayist writing for any number of journals, and yet, for some reason, I stopped. I attended Grad School where I studied Library Science, not just because I wanted to b...

Writing Stats for July 18-July 24

A pretty successful week this week! Monday: +241 words Tuesday: +118 words Wednesday: +114 words Thursday: No Writing Friday: +179 words AND I finished Chapter 1 Saturday: +319 words Sunday: +232 words Current Status: Chapter 1 is done at 2091 word and chapter 2 is started Total word count: 2642 Words written this week:1203 Camp NaNoWriMo update: At this rate you'll finish August 17 (better than September!) I accomplished my goal of writing 6 days this week, and for each of those writing times to be over 100 words. I'm making strides and getting words down. No new goals for this coming week. I wrote 1203 words this last week. Working for 1220 this week. We'll see what happens!

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