Author Archives: Susan

REALITY?: Natural Layering

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Damn, but if I need to learn about life all I need do is go out in the backyard morning. The clouds are stratus far above in static streaks like still is still moving to me (Willie) while another layer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Patchwork Girl – Finding My Way

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Still struggling with discovering a method to the madness of this hyperfiction novel by Shelley Jackson and it’s mainly because I’m so damn stubborn about learning the controls.  I’ve gotten just a few pages into it, but am reluctant to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Post #3000

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Susan

I suppose this should be momentous and of deep meaning somehow, but it’s not.  Read further down the page for the more inspired intelligence. But time again, I think, to reconsider; the content, the design, the little problem I created … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Inspiration – Ideas vs. Words

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Susan

I have seen the sacristies of blood and lit the votive that incinerated decades of mankind.  (Gibb) Huh?  No I haven’t.  So where do these ideas come from then?  Mine come to me in phrases such as the above which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING (and Reality!): Breaking Rules

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Susan

I’ve always been a rulebreaker–operating just this side of the law.  But there are three things one must understand about rules and flaunting them before they open themselves up to the breaking: One should understand the purpose of the rule … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Hypertext 3.0 – Chainlinks

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Susan

Even within the text format of this book are subtle "hyperlinks" that direct the reader elsewhere and I must order Barthes’ S/Z and perhaps Derrida to fully understand.  I am familiar with the readerly versus writerly concept of Barthes’ "death … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Dance-driving

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Susan

Turn the key and Jerry Mungo springs to life and sings me up the hill and into town.  I’m dancin’ in my seat for there are tunes you cannot sit and listen to no matter what.  Blast it up and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Breakfast

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Susan

Turkey buzzard cutting circles in the morning sky, spirals getting smaller, smaller; moving a degree or two above the trees each cycle.  Hungry he is. I watch and wonder if I can wait his table.  Hold up the seed-filled thievin’ … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Lit Journals vs. The Short Story

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Susan

So it won’t be so hard to catch up on my short story readings of the literary journals: Prairie Schooner, Fall 2004:  A total of four short stories; 64 pages out of 190. Ploughshares, Winter, 2004-2005:  Six short stories; 84 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: And again, reading

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Susan

Crof at Writing Fiction has a great commentary on the pros (and side effects!) of reading and more reading for writers:  What Writers Read Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Random Ephemera

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Susan

You know the day’s about to unfold as something unusual when a birthday caller to a radio station requests Nancy Sinatra’s Boots song. Yesterday was terrific.  Sat down with a friend in a casual meeting on his short stories and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: What We Wear

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Susan

There once was a woman who underneath her clothes was always naked.  From when she was a little girl, she grew into and out of pants and skirts and shirts and dresses that never really fit.  To all she did … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Garden Party

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Susan

By invitation only, and even then a few unwanted weeds and tunneling mole crash through.  The first to turn up are the turnips, drunk already it would appear for they are staggering in the row.  A gentle rain outside today … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Mapping

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Susan

(Above from Eastgate presentation of Storyspace) In playing around a bit in Patchwork Girl–not getting into the story yet; still intrigued by the process–I’m learning a bit more about the Storyspace format.  Storyspace is the software program that assists the … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Editing

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Susan

Oh Lord, I’m just having the best time editing these stories for a friend.  We’re sending revisions back and forth by e-mail attachments and the comments are just getting funnier and funnier.  It’s starting to read like Evil Editor but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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