Erin Ryan Burdette
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | freelance writer/occasional actor |
| Location | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I am a native Texan, yet own no cowboy hat and/or cowgirl boots. Married nine years with a sixteen-year-old stepson, Zachary, a seven-year old-son, Jack, and a freshly one-year-old daughter, Isabel. Undergraduate and graduate degrees in theater (acting) and lived in San Diego and Los Angeles for seven years as an actor, but write now much more than I act (plays, short stories, narrative non-fiction). The hours of a writer fit much better with those of a mother. I am shopping my first novel for an agent, which could be a blog in and of itself, but I'm sure several thousand almost authors are already doing that. Besides, I've recently become a squeaky wheel within the Dallas Independent School District, which inspired me to start this blog (or to be accurate, to pick it up again; it started in 2007 chronicling a writing workshop I attened in Positano, Italy, for revision of my then novel-in- progress. |
| Interests | Writing. And reading. No arithmetic, particularly geometry. Lots of yoga. |
| Favorite movies | Airplane, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Barton Fink(just realized I am writing these in alphabetical order...significant?), Crimes & Misdemeanors (can't stop), Kramer vs. Kramer, Little Miss Sunshine, Magnolia, Moonstruck, Moulin Rouge, Ordinary People, Raising Arizona, Racing with the Moon, Shakespeare in Love, Squid and the Whale, Terms of Endearment |
| Favorite music | Coldplay, Replacements, U2, Joni Mitchell, Patty Griffin,Jayhawks, Wilco, Liz Phair, Rhett Miller, Pixies, Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, Rolling Stones, Nina Simone, Etta James, Ray Charles |
| Favorite books | anything by Augusten Burroughs, Me Talk Pretty One Day, World according to Garp, Franny and Zooey, Breakfast of Champions, Animal Farm, Nine stories, Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Slaughterhouse Five, She's Come Undone, The Sun also Rises, Garden of Eden |
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
This question has reminded me of biting tin foil and now my teeth hurt. Now i'm envisioning biting into something way too cold, like ice cream. Teeth hurt worse and we are no closer to an answer.