Author Archives: Susan

It began as one of those glorious mornings, bursting with sunlight and the cry of a bluejay amid silent waking before the city boiled into the whirlwind of life on hot fried-egg sidewalks with blaring horns and middle-finger anger offered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An untethered kite of an eagle, riding the waves of wind in a sea-blue sky. Continue reading →

I’ve just spent a bit of time reading some of my weblog from its initiation two years ago, scanning here and there to watch the progress towards some high inspired times and the prolificality (remember that?) with which I wrote … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As I’d hoped, Steve Ersinghaus has expanded on my post on the idea of getting out of character and getting into new character in enabling a writer to go beyond his own experience and values. It is all such a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’re fortunate to have an English Professor numbering among our little writers group, and a point was made at the night’s meeting of stretching beyond ourselves to create character; to become (as is necessary) someone we might write about that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ah, we have more voice than one in our writer’s mind, though I sought, thought I found truth in a whisper unraveled through time and practice. Yes, I’ve grown a bit weird as I age–quickly through dedicated study in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I suppose style (of the writer) ecompasses the elements of narrative structure, voice, story, etc.  It is the addition of learned skills as a refinement to whatever basic talent with which a writer may naturally be blessed. In reading some … Continue reading → Continue reading →