Monthly Archives: December 2005

BLOGGING: Can You Hear Me Now?

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Susan

Still trying on my own to republish the entries lost (?) by the Typepad problems yesterday, and this is really just a test entry to see if it helps. Continue reading →

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WRITING: How Story May Come

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Susan

Dumb title of a post, but that’s what I mean. For me, it begins with opening lines, needs a bit of editing, but basically the words come before the story.  I don’t think I’ve ever been able to start with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Asking the Right Questions

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Susan

I should have known this, but was reminded of how to write story that extends beyond self.  In Big Tim Dawson, I have been asking the wrong question:  Why? This leads to a lot of needless backstory and rhetoric that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Audio Books

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Susan

Very interesting direction, although not new except in answer to the writers’ need to get their work read (or in this case, heard) and today’s technology, visit Metaxucafe member Dave Munger in his entry on podcasting his book, Small Journeys … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Night Mood

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Susan

Good night tonight.  Reality and nature confirming thought and concept, direction, goals.  Same old backyard; birdfeeders by the graveyard bush protecting chickadees and junkos from the hawk, old peach and apple trees aligned for mowing and a simple mind that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Willie & Woolies

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Susan

Ran out for a few quick errands in the what-seems-to-be-sudden cruel coldness of December mornings.  After walking up the street to bring my newly-released from her leg casted neighbor to bring in her paper, mail, and trash can, I realized … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reviews

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Susan

I have to laugh; having turned Spinning more in the direction of writing and literature analysis and review, here I am reading lit journals that are a year old (I hope to catch up over the holidays, though having just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: A Perfect Stranger – Style

Posted on December 13, 2005 by susan

A Perfect Stranger, by Roxana Robinson is a collection of short stories by this author of Sweetwater along with two other novels, two short story collections, and a biography of Georgia O’Keefe, four of which have been named Notable Books … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Hope

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Susan

Three weeks long the waiting, heralded by sightings by the man, the woman at the deli, the neighbor.  To them, the eagle has no meaning but the natural awe of one so rarely seen.  To me, it meant much more.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: How to Put It Into Words

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Susan

Again my thanks to Dan Green at The Reading Experience for calling this essay by William Gass called "The Sentence Seeks Its Form" (Bookforum, Dec/Jan) to our attention, and I am excerpting here from his own to focus on a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Vol. 30, Nos. 2 & 3

Posted on December 12, 2005 by susan

Dragged my way through to the end, and found something of real interest in this edition.  Out of twelve authors whose work is presented, only one has never been published.  Most of the rest are published in their own novels … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: MPD

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Susan

In no way do I intend to discredit or denigrate the seriousness of the malady referred to as MPD or Multiple Personality Disorder, as I find it a fascinating topic of research of the mind.  But since it came up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: Eugene the Flying Machine

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Susan

By the time he was three years old, Eugene Mihalowitz learned he could fly.  Oh he always could, even out of his crib, but he was three before he learned that’s what you called it.  He was eight when he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: The Mysteries

Posted on December 11, 2005 by Susan

Tonight, some thoughts on what’s here and what’s not.  Empirical theory of philosophy challenging not only faith, but possibly memory of that which once could be seen, touched but no longer there.  What is real, and does real endure or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Making a Long Story Short

Posted on December 11, 2005 by Susan

You write down your story, or someone’s story, and before you know it, you have close to two thousand words.  then you stop and take a long hard look at it, and you’re back down to nine hundred.  Then little … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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