Ryan Ruff Smith's guest appearances

Ryan Ruff Smith

Composer Quest: A Songwriting and Music Composition Podcast

Path to Follow Podcast

Ryan Ruff

David Goggins

Paul Fraser

James Joyce

Harlan Coben

Pat Pattison

James Johnson

Shirley Jackson

Marc Weidenbaum

Jesmyn Ward

Teddy Roosevelt

Jhumpa Lahiri

Sylvia Plath

Cormac McCarthy

Bobby Kennedy

OwlTail

Grace Paley

Ryan Ruff Smith is the Tickner Writing Fellow at Gilman School. He has published both fiction and literary nonfiction in journals such as Ploughshares, Subtropics, Green Mountains Review, and New Ohio Review. One of his short stories, "The Disturbance," was listed in the Best American Short Stories 2017. Ryan's a native of Minneapolis, MN. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. // In Episode #29 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Ryan discuss the process of creative writing, Ryan's short story "The Disturbance," ideas drawn from experience, reasons humans enjoy storytelling, the continual process of revision, the challenges of beginning a story versus ending one, "showing versus telling," the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and John Cheever, the Writers at Work Series, Paragon (Gilman's award-winning literary magazine), and Ryan's book recommendation: The Collected Stories by Grace Paley. // Enjoy the episode? Please subscribe, share, and follow the Path to Follow Podcast on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/Pathtofollowpod​​. // Many thanks to the all-powerful Cesare Ciccanti for his work on production.

Ryan Ruff Smith is the Tickner Writing Fellow at Gilman School. He has published both fiction and literary nonfiction in journals such as Ploughshares, Subtropics, Green Mountains Review, and New Ohio Review. One of his short stories, "The Disturbance," was listed in the Best American Short Stories 2017. Ryan's a native of Minneapolis, MN. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. // In Episode #29 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Ryan discuss the process of creative writing, Ryan's short story "The Disturbance," ideas drawn from experience, reasons humans enjoy storytelling, the continual process of revision, the challenges of beginning a story versus ending one, "showing versus telling," the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and John Cheever, the Writers at Work Series, Paragon (Gilman's award-winning literary magazine), and Ryan's book recommendation: The Collected Stories by Grace Paley. // Enjoy the episode? Please subscribe, share, and follow the Path to Follow Podcast on all platforms: <a href="https://linktr.ee/Pathtofollowpod%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/Pathtofollowpod​​.</a> // Many thanks to the all-powerful Cesare Ciccanti for his work on production.

Episode #29 - Ryan Ruff Smith: Writing, Short Stories, Chekhov, Grace Paley

Ryan Ruff Smith and I talk about a bunch of lyric-writing techniques, including seeing the big picture, using subtext, writing as a character, and focusing your song ideas.

The art of lyrics with fiction writer Ryan Ruff Smith