I'm Brandon Sneed. This is my blog. It's basically an online notebook where I highlight good writing, storytelling, journalism and other acts of creativity, and explore how such things are made.
I'm an author and journalist who writes about people, sports, science, nature, and more. I love learning, adventures, life, and stories. I've covered everything from a guy who played Division I basketball while battling cancer ... to golf courses that eat golfers ... to turkey vultures invading a town. You can read all those and more below.
More about me and the blog: here.
The Prospect: Montaous Walton Just Wanted to Play Ball, So He Made Up a Fake Online Persona, Fooled the Media, Signed With an Agent, and Ended Up in Handcuffs
(SB Nation Longform)
The Good Hurt: How Ray King Lives and Plays Basketball with Cancer
(SB Nation Longform)
Golfer Swallowed By Golf Course
(Outside)
How A Tiny Southern Town Handles A Turkey Vulture Invasion
(Outside)
Blind Ambition
(ESPN The Magazine)
Mad For Carolina
(GQ)
Nobody Walks Alone
(ESPN: The Magazine)
The First Legend
(SLAM magazine)
I'm starting to do more first-person experience features for the Wilmington StarNews. My first one is this one, about me trying to learn how to surf. As usual, it involved mass amounts of failure.
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