Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Writers Digest

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Susan

This comes at a time when I’ve just let my own many-years’ long subscription lapse:  Lee Goldberg’s post on Writers Digest with plenty of comments–including those of Kristin Godsey, Editor of the magazine.  Read Writers Digest at Lee’s A Writer’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Reading & Writing

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Susan

I don’t think I have ever been more grateful to every English teacher from first grade through college, for every book from Goldilocks to Aristotle (ass-backwards timewise, I know; maybe something can be learned here), from Penmanship to Creative Writing, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Morning Moonset

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Susan

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the moon set before; a great pink-orange ball settle into the black branches of the trees beyond the field next door.  Amazing. Earlier in the morning in the moon’s full light, a fox follows … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Symbol

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Susan

Every day I seek him in the sky, outlined on the branch that is his own.  Today, finally I see the eagle, a hood of white above the wide black span of outstretched wing.  He circles over the brook, his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Lit Journal Submissions

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Susan

Even as my fingers waffle between the print button and the wait-a-minute-this-would-sound-better-editing of the keyboard on Big Tim Dawson, and with my cover letter zippy and not my usual Suzie Secretary proper with a touch of a self-deprecating please?, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Fiction and Not

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Susan

Ah, after some surfing this morning I find how more literally literary sites than mine own come away with less personal posting. They get their frustrations out on people in the literature field.  I prefer to save the full force … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Healthcare

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Susan

This disgusts me:  In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay "But seven years later, even as the number of New Yorkers with Type 2 diabetes has nearly doubled, three of the four centers, including Beth Israel’s, have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Lit Journals

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Susan

Well, so much for Prairie Schooner.  Just got the Winter 2005 issue in the mail.  There are four short stories in it.  Four.  I think I’ll just let this subscription run out, which appears to be summer of ’07.  But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Seeds of Sense

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Susan

At long last, an honest and understanding literary journal which has a grip on reality and really does display an interest in writers and sees their side of the publishing wall: "And, yes, we do consider simultaneous submissions. After all, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Oh the Horror!

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Susan

Maybe I should just go back to my roots and write horror stories.  I’m too easily led astray by what I read in contemporary literary fiction to be satisfied.  I was all set to send one out that I’ve worked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Metamagical Themas

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Susan

I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep up intellectually with this book, but I just love the ideas and hope that I can come to understand it: Whirly Art became a (very) idiosyncratic language, with its … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Snowed

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Susan

It’s snowing again. Probate Court again.  Snowplowed in with balls of ice and incompetence of lawyers.  Hibernate.  Quickly find a cave and hibernate before it is too late. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Current Reads

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Susan

So the winners are: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius And Metamagical Themas by Douglas F. Hofstadter. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading & Writing

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Susan

Foolish Woman, say thee?  To fall within the words webbed by a nobleman? Nay Sir, for foolish would I nought have been with mortal man; But he was yet a god, golden-haired and beautiful Well-spoken and melodious in the speech … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Choices

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Susan

Augustine, Boethius, or Hugh of St. Victor?  Hugh’s sitting on the hearth, but Augustine’s available online, and Boethius beckons with philosophy. Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas or Marie-Laure Ryan’s Narrative as Virtual Reality?  One intrigues with promise, the other is more relevant … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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